Acknowledgements

We would like to thank everyone who participated in this study. We are especially grateful to all the interviewees for their great contributions, which made this study possible. Our special thanks goes to the partners in the field for their support with the research and to the reviewers for their valuable feedback.

About the authors:

Carolin Funke is a research associate at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum.

Dennis Dijkzeul is Professor of Conflict and Organization Research at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict and the Faculty of Social Science at Ruhr University Bochum.

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Funke, Carolin and Dijkzeul, Dennis (2021) From Commitment to Action: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Response in South Sudan?

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HI, 2021
Description: Humanity and Inclusion, South Sudan. A focus group discussion in Yambio with representatives from organizations of persons with disabilities, June 2021.

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This publication has been produced within the framework of the project ‘Phase 2 – Leave No One Behind! Mainstreaming Disability in Humanitarian Action’, which is implemented jointly with Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion Germany (HI), Christian Blind Mission Germany (CBM) and Ruhr University Bochum’s Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV). The project seeks to advance the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action, including in humanitarian coordination mechanisms, strengthen the capacities of German actors and their local partners, and improve the evidence base on the inclusion of persons with disabilities. The German Federal Foreign Office funds this project.

To safeguard academic standards, the authors of this paper, Carolin Funke and Dennis Dijkzeul, have carried out this study independently. They are solely responsible for the contents of this report.