CC.1.4 Number of women, men, boys and girls with disabilities receiving food/cash-based transfers/commodity vouchers/capacity-strengthening transfers

CC.1.4 Number of women, men, boys and girls with disabilities receiving food/cash-based transfers/commodity vouchers/capacity-strengthening transfers

VERSION

V4.0 - 2026.03 - Existing with revisions

INDICATOR CODE

CC.1.4

TECHNICAL OWNER

GPI Unit

INDICATOR TYPE

Country Level Cross-cutting Indicator

Priority Area: Ensuring Protection and accountability to affected people

INDICATOR CLASSIFICATION

Mandatory

INDICATOR SCOPE

Programme specific

APPLICABILITY

This indicator is applicable at the CSP level.

Applicable and mandatory to all CSPs with activities targeting Tier one beneficiaries.

UNIT OF MEASUREMENT & ANALYSIS

Number of people

DEFINITION

This indicator aims to measure the number of people with disabilities receiving WFP assistance.

Below are some key definitions for this indicator:

Disability: WFP’s understanding of disability is based on the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which considers disability to be an “evolving concept, resulting from the interaction between impairments and attitudinal and environment barriers” (CRPD Preamble) and persons with disabilities as “those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others” (Article 1). The CRPD notes disability therefore as the result of the interaction between a person and their environment. Addressing disability thus implies action on both individual and environmental factors.

Different types of impairments, in interaction with barriers in the surrounding environment (social, physical, etc.) can limit participation on an equal basis as persons without impairments. Participation limiting barriers may be environmental (e.g. lack of wheelchair ramps), attitudinal (e.g. stigma), legislative (e.g. barring persons with disabilities from employment), financial (e.g. costs of assistive technology) or others (e.g. lack of accessible information). Impairments may be physical (e.g. amputation, short stature), sensory (e.g. visual, hearing), intellectual or cognitive (e.g. differences in comprehension, processing or understanding), psychosocial (e.g. intrusive thoughts, low mood), or communicative (e.g. difficulties processing or producing language). Long-term, or chronic, diseases such as HIV/AIDs, diabetes, or cancer can be accompanied by multiple impairments. Impairments may be temporary, fluctuating, context-dependent or progressive, and may be visible or invisible. A person with disability may have more than one kind of impairment.

The inclusion of this indicator is in line with WFP’s commitment to rendering its programs inclusive of persons with disabilities (2016 endorsement of the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action), and WFP’s first Disability Inclusion Road Map, endorsed by the Executive Board in November 2020.

RATIONALE

The rationale of this indicator is to understand how many persons with disabilities are reached through WFP programmes. Disability‑disaggregated data enables WFP to verify whether programmes are effectively reaching persons with disabilities and to identify gaps in access, allowing WFP to investigate and address barriers to inclusion. The indicator also supports reporting against the requirements of the EB members as well as donors.

DATA COLLECTION TOOL

Data for this indicator can be collected in two ways:

Primary data collection using the WGQ‑SS questionnaire (strongly recommended and preferred)
Secondary data and estimates (to be used only when primary data collection is not possible).

Primary data collection: Data can be collected from assisted persons during beneficiary contact monitoring. This can be done during post distribution monitoring (PDM) at the household level. The WGQ-SS should be integrated alongside other demographic, i.e. sex and age, data. Respondents can be any adult member of the household. Integration of the WGQ-SS assumes feasibility of the context, including resources and capacity to train data collectors and analysts.

Data collection tool:

The WGQ-SS consists of six questions with four answer categories. The six questions, or domains, relate to basic functions; seeing, hearing, walking/mobility, cognition, communication and self-care. Any person answering ‘a lot of difficulty’ or ‘cannot do at all’ to at least one domain/question is considered to be positively identified by the WGQ-SS for disability. See the Guidance Note in annex for further guidance.

The questionnaire for this indicator is available in Survey Designer by selecting the indicator Beneficiaries with disabilities receiving assistance (indicator CC 1.4 – Roster version) or Beneficiaries with disabilities receiving assistance (indicator CC 1.4 – HoH version) in the indicator area Cross-cutting: Protection.

The roster method is preferred where questionnaire length allows. This method will ask the 6 questions for every household member above 5 years old and best captures/calculates disabilities in the household. A less preferred but more pragmatic option where questionnaire length is a consideration, is to ask the 6 questions only about the head of household.

When this option is chosen, countries should clearly mention this method was used so results can be interpreted carefully.

Roster version
Questions
#	Questions # Question Name & Question Text	Skip Logic	Required
1	HHAsstWFPRecCashYN1Y - Did your household receive cash-based WFP assistance in the last 12 months? 0 No 1 Yes		Depending on Activity
2	Depending on Activity 2 HHAsstWFPRecInKindYN1Y - Did your household receive in-kind WFP assistance in the last 12 months? 0 No 1 Yes		Depending on Activity
3	HHAsstWFPRecCapBuildYN1Y - Did you household receive WFP capacity building assistance in the last 12 months? [Insert name and description of capacity building program here to help respondents better recall] 0 No 1 Yes		Depending on Activity
4	RespSex - Sex of the Respondent ENUMERATOR: Interviewers are to observe and record but not ask the sex of the respondent 0 Female 1 Male		Yes
5	RESPRelationHHH - What is your relationship with the head of household? ENUMERATOR: Allow the respondent to define head of household as they choose. If a respondent asks for definition of head of household: "head of household is the one who makes the major decisions" 100 Head of household 200 Spouse/partner 300 Son/daughter 400 Father/mother 500 Brother/sister 600 Other relatives 700 Other non-relatives 999 Other		No
6	HHHSex - What is the sex of the head of the household? ENUMERATOR: Allow the respondent to define head of household as they choose. If a respondent asks for definition of head of household: "head of household is the one who makes the major decisions" 0 Female 1 Male		Yes
7	HHHAge - Age of the head of the household?		No
I will now ask you a series of questions about each member in your household (including yourself) above 5 years old. Let’s start the series of questions with the oldest member of the household and finish with the youngest member of the household.
8	PDisabMembers - How many members aged 5+ are there in your household? Please include yourself in the computation.		Yes
Repeats questions for each household member aged 5+:
9	PDisabName - Name of household member		Yes
10	PDisabAge - What is the age of [Name]?		Yes
11	PDisabSex - What is the sex of [Name]? 0 Female 1 Male		Yes
The next questions ask about difficulties [Name] may have doing certain activities.
12	PDisabSee - Does [Name] have difficulty seeing, even if wearing glasses? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
13	PDisabHear - Does [Name] have difficulty hearing, even if using a hearing aid(s)? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
14	PDisabWalk - Does [Name} have difficulty walking or climbing steps? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
15	PDisabRemember - Does [Name] have difficulty remembering or concentrating? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
16	PDisabUnderstand - Using your usual language, does [Name] have difficulty communicating, for example understanding or being understood? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
17	PDisabWash - Does [Name] have difficulty with self-care, such as washing all over or dressing? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes

Head of Household Version
Questions
#	Questions # Question Name & Question Text	Skip Logic	Required
1	HHAsstWFPRecCashYN1Y - Did your household receive cash-based WFP assistance in the last 12 months? 0 No 1 Yes		Depending on Activity
2	HHAsstWFPRecInKindYN1Y - Did your household receive in-kind WFP assistance in the last 12 months? 0 No 1 Yes		Depending on Activity
3	HHAsstWFPRecCapBuildYN1Y - Did you household receive WFP capacity building assistance in the last 12 months? [Insert name and description of capacity building program here to help respondents better recall] 0 No 1 Yes		Depending on Activity
4	RespSex - Sex of the Respondent ENUMERATOR: Interviewers are to observe and record but not ask the sex of the respondent 0 Female 1 Male		Yes
5	RESPRelationHHH - What is your relationship with the head of household? ENUMERATOR: Allow the respondent to define head of household as they choose. If a respondent asks for definition of head of household: "head of household is the one who makes the major decisions" 100 Head of household 200 Spouse/partner 300 Son/daughter 400 Father/mother 500 Brother/sister 600 Other relatives 700 Other non-relatives 999 Other		No
6	HHHSex - What is the sex of the head of the household? ENUMERATOR: Allow the respondent to define head of household as they choose. If a respondent asks for definition of head of household: "head of household is the one who makes the major decisions" 0 Female 1 Male		Yes
7	HHHAge - Age of the head of the household?		No
The next questions ask about difficulties the head of household may have doing certain activities ENUMERATOR: If respondent is head of household, you can say "do you …" instead of "does the head of household" for the series of questions below.
8	PDisabSee - Does the head of household have difficulty seeing, even if wearing glasses? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
9	PDisabHear - Does the head of household have difficulty hearing, even if using a hearing aid(s)? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
10	PDisabWalk - Does the head of household have difficulty walking or climbing steps? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
11	PDisabRemember - Does the head of household have difficulty remembering or concentrating? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
12	PDisabUnderstand - Using your usual language, does the head of household have difficulty communicating, for example understanding or being understood? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes
13	PDisabWash - Does the head of household have difficulty with self-care, such as washing all over or dressing? Would you say… ENUMERATOR: Read response categories 1 No difficulty 2 Some difficulty 3 A lot of difficulty 4 Cannot do at all 888 Don’t know 999 Refuse		Yes

Secondary data: When integrating the WGQSS into field data collection is not feasible, countries may rely on credible secondary data or estimates that are generated for example by Organizations of Persons with disabilities in liaison with Government Statistical Agencies (ie Sri Lanka), WFP registration data, Academic sources or through Multi-Sectoral Needs (MSA) Assessments. In such cases, the methodological limitations should be clearly noted in reporting so results can be interpreted appropriately.

SAMPLING REQUIREMENTS

When data is collected through household surveys:

Sampling should follow the strategy adopted for the household level monitoring exercise used to collect information to calculate multiple indicators.

It is recommended to collect information from a statistically representative sample of the population under analysis. To calculate the sample, the confidence level should be between 90-95% with a 5-10% margin of error.

For more details and guidance please refer to the sampling guide for household level data collection.

INDICATOR CALCULATION FOR REPORTING

This indicator can be calculated with an excel tool to automate the calculation as much as possible. Use the following steps to calculate this indicator:

Data is collected and calculated at the CSP activity level, before being aggregated and entered in COMET at CSP level (see steps below).

Primary Data Collection

For each CSP activity targeting Tier 1 beneficiaries (e.g. GD, MAM, SMP, etc.), sum the total respondents in the statistically representative sample that meet the requirements of a person with disabilities. Then express as a percentage.
Using Level 1 Adjusted Beneficiary figures per CSP Activity, apply the statistically representative percentage calculated in Step 1 to each applicable CSP Activity to calculate an estimated representative sample of beneficiaries living with disabilities in the CSP at Level 1. (For a more accurate reflection, take the weighted average of the Level 1 Adjusted Beneficiaries.) Divide the estimated representative sample of beneficiaries living with disabilities by the weighted sum of total beneficiaries, and express as a percentage to obtain the weighted representative proportion of beneficiaries living with disabilities.
NB: If a CO is unable to collect the required information through survey-based methods for one or more applicable CSP activity, please do not use “0” in the calculation as the weighted application will account for any missing data.
Apply the statistically representative percentage to the total CSP beneficiaries at Level 5 to estimate the total number of beneficiaries with disabilities at CSP level.

COs can use this template (with a CO example) to calculate this indicator.

Secondary data collection (assuming primary data collection could not be conducted)

Apply the percentage obtained from local authorities to the total beneficiaries across the CSP to estimate number of people with disabilities.

Note: To be counted as a person with disabilities for the purpose of receiving food, cash-based transfers, commodity vouchers, or capacity strengthening assistance, at least one household member aged 5 years or older must report “a lot of difficulty” or “cannot do at all” in any of the six functional domains included in the tool. If all household members provide any other response, the household is not considered to include a person with disabilities.

Scripts in R, STATA and SPSS and sample data are available on github for calculating this indicator.

Original guidance on the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning (WGQ-SS) can be found here: questions and syntax.

Note: If COs are unable to collect primary data, due to security issues, resource constraints etc., they ideally should not apply global or local averages or estimates (e.g. 15%, or secondary national level data). Applying such figures at output level reporting implies that persons with disabilities are proportionately accessing WFP assistance. However, this is unlikely to be the case due to some combination of different levels of need, and/or access barriers. In such cases, the methodological limitations should be clearly noted in reporting so results can be interpreted appropriately.

DATA ENTRY AND DISAGGREGATION IN CORPORATE SYSTEMS

Data for this indicator is entered at CSP level through the beneficiary counting module in COMET. Please see this guidance for detailed instructions on entering the data into COMET.

Data is not entered again in the logframe module, unlike other cross-cutting indicators, to avoid inconsistencies and double data entries.

BASELINE

No baseline is required for this indicator. Only actual values are compared on a yearly basis.

TARGET SETTING

No target is required for this indicator. Only actual values are compared on a yearly basis.

FREQUENCY OF DATA COLLECTION

N/A

The calculation and data entry into COMET should be conducted annually.

INTERPRETATION

The World Health Organization estimates that about 15% of the world’s population has a disability, with 80% of those persons living in low- and middle-income countries. However, figures collected in PDMs may vary significantly from 15%. Variation in baseline prevalence of disability can be expected in contexts with conflict, low access to healthcare, high levels of malnutrition, etc. Further variation of prevalence within WFP caseloads is likely, due to different levels of food insecurity and capacity to access assistance among persons with disability. Finally, the frequency or modality of data collection (e.g. mobile data collection) and sample size constraints will affect findings.

Three strategies that can assist in interpreting results:

Repeated data collection will allow a baseline for comparison of results and increasing skill with implementation and analysis.
Using the WGQ-SS without modification89 allows for comparison across contexts or actors, as appropriate, as it is an internationally validated and standardized tool.
Interpretating data in link with local organizations of persons with disabilities (OPD’s) will enable some triangulation and identification of follow-up actions.

Note: Sample size should be considered when analysing and reporting on disability-disaggregated data. Analysis of data disaggregated by disability requires a sufficient number of observations. For transparency, it is recommended to report on the number of observations, and to exercise caution in the analysis if the number of households with disabled members is not representative of the population. This should be considered in the design as well as analysis phases of the assessment.

REPORTING EXAMPLE(S)

The reporting is the in the ACR overview section of Total Beneficiary Figures.

INDICATORS COLLECTED & ANALYSED AT THE SAME TIME

The information on the above will help understand whether improved processes on accessibility and consultation together with better outreach to communities is ultimately reducing barriers to our services and helping us reach more people captured by this indicator.

COMPLEMENTARY QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

This information needs to be accompanied by additional information on the barriers that persons with disabilities face accessing WFP services. WFP and partners are piloting an interagency tool on collecting relevant data on this. Additional queries on qualitative data can be sent to the DI focal points in HQ.

DECISIONS DATA CAN INFORM

Whether, in proportion to total beneficiary figures, households with people with disabilities are comparatively under-served by WFP services. This should trigger action on identifying why this is the case which can only be done through creating data on barriers and a context and risk analysis. The data, read with an intersectional lens, will show us whether there are important variations in women, girls and older people experience differential access to WFP’s services.

VISUALIZATION

See examples in the CRF Usage Dashboard.

LIMITATIONS

While sex and age (GAM) disaggregated data should be collected in all cases, it may not be possible to report statistically relevant figures for disability due to the limited sample size collected for certain indicators.

WGQ-SS are available in all UN languages, but a high-quality translation process into the local language may be needed to ensure comprehension.

Where the WGQ-SS are included to disaggregate existing indicators by disability, it will be crucial that the enumerators are adequately trained to address potential sources of bias and error in implementation of the tool, e.g. same gender enumerator and respondent, HHH responding on behalf of other adults, removing reference to assistive technology (hearing aids) not available in the local context.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Indicator description on VAM Resource Centre

WFP Information & Knowledge Management Platform on Disability Inclusion Beneficiary

BENEFICIARY COUNTING IN COMET

Technical Note on Mainstreaming of Disability Disaggregation: A Phased Approach

Documentation Index

CC.1.4 Number of women, men, boys and girls with disabilities receiving food/cash-based transfers/commodity vouchers/capacity-strengthening transfers