Alliance · Inclusive recovery
Let your project be an example of how to build back better.
If your municipality, your company, or your foundation is repairing a school, a park, a road, or a service, you have the decision in your hands to repeat the usual barriers or leave the territory more accessible than it was. Inclusive recovery does not cost double: it is planned from day one and can be verified.
For municipalities and recovery project leaders, public and private.
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essential actions of inclusive humanitarian action
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verifications for territorial planning: 6 for response and 6 for recovery
Two recovery projects, two universal design decisions. What changes is not the budget: it's who can enter, learn, and play.
Basic framework for inclusive humanitarian action
Inter-Agency Standing Committee guidelines and UNICEF essential actions.
Organizations of persons with disabilities in coordination, decisions, and needs assessment. Nothing about them without them.
Physical access to shelters, routes, and services; information in accessible formats; dignified treatment regarding attitudinal barriers.
Trained response personnel and communities, and reinforced organizations of persons with disabilities as first-line actors.
Washington Group questions and UNICEF Child Functioning Module to know who is left out, by sex and age.
Inclusive recovery verifications
0 of 6 meet in your territory
They are presented as compliance verifications (meets / does not meet) to guide territorial planning; each entity can turn them into quantitative goals according to their baseline and risk management plan.
The six complementary emergency response verifications are in the inclusive humanitarian response section.
Four entry points, available today on the Alliance site, for municipal teams and for public and private project leaders.
The instrument with which recovery starts by counting everyone.
Download the guideCharacterize population, families, caregivers, and offer before investing.
Open instrumentSelf-paced on UNICEF Agora, for the entire response team.
Go to course(opens in a new tab)Routes, templates, and checklists to accompany multiple municipalities.
Open toolboxResource box · Colombia 2026
Who can help you execute adjustments: Colombian sign language interpretation, braille printing and signage, easy reading, digital accessibility, pedagogical, sensory, and mobility supports. Use it when contracting work, equipment, or communications.
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records
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What do I need? — the 10 directory categories
Face-to-face or virtual Colombian Sign Language–Spanish interpretation, and the public registry of interpreters.
Braille printing, large print, high relief, signage, and typhlological material.
Didactic material, sensory resources, and routine organizers.
Web accessibility diagnosis and adjustments, digital content, and inclusive communication.
Sign language courses for individuals, teams, and institutions.
Wheelchairs, bath chairs, and mobility and orthopedic supplies.
Optical aids, braille, large print, signage, and tactile paving.
Adaptation and validation of texts in easy-to-read format, and training.
Guide-interpretation, advice, and training in reasonable accommodations.
Assistive technology, augmentative communication, and IT accessibility.
The file includes the “What do I need?” guide, the consolidated directory filterable by category, city, type of offer, and entity, and usage notes. Information must be verified with each entity before contracting: appearing in the directory does not constitute certification or commercial recommendation.
Public entities, organizations of and for persons with disabilities, academia, and cooperation that technically accompany municipalities and project leaders.
There are already territories in Colombia that have proven it. The Alliance's instruments, routes, and courses are open and free: join in and make your work a universal design standard.
Content of the Alliance for an Inclusive Recovery in Colombia, built on inclusive humanitarian action and inclusive social protection frameworks. Learn about the inclusive humanitarian response section.