Register Now! Virtual UNSC57 Side Event: Data on Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Situations

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Collecting Data on Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Situations: Presentation of the New UNICEF/Washington Group Module on Child Functioning - Humanitarian Version

Date: Monday, 16 February 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. EST
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High-quality data are essential for identifying and addressing the needs of persons with disabilities during humanitarian crises. Humanitarian settings often require similar types of disability-related information as conventional contexts and may face comparable data collection constraints. However, they also present unique challenges, including specific information needs and greater logistical or operational barriers to collecting robust data.

Given these challenges, there is a clear need for a tool designed for humanitarian contexts, particularly one that supports the disaggregation of outcome measures by disability status. UNICEF, together with the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG), has developed a version of the UNICEF/WG Child Functioning Module (CFM) for use in humanitarian contexts: the Child Functioning Module – Humanitarian Version (CFM–HV). The CFM-HV takes into account the data needs and data collection constraints of humanitarian settings.

The CFM-HV measures functional difficulties in children at the population level. It helps identify service needs for the overall population or subgroups by estimating the number of children with functional limitations and indicates potential barriers to accessing necessary services and resources.

The main objective of the side event is to present the Child Functioning Module – Humanitarian Version.

Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in International Sign, French and Spanish.