Significantly, the IDA provided ten practical approaches to address the main barriers that persons with disabilities face during the COVID-19 pandemic. These recommendationsix are as follows: 1. Persons with disabilities must receive information about infection mitigating tips, public restriction plans, and the services offered, in a diversity of accessible formats; 2. Additional protective measures must be taken for people with certain types of impairment; 3. Rapid awareness raising and training of personnel involved in the response are essential; 4. All preparedness and response plans must be inclusive of and accessible to women with disabilities; 5. No disability-based institutionalizationx and abandonment is acceptable; 6. During quarantine, support services, personal assistance, physical and communication accessibility must be ensured; 7. Measures of public restrictions must consider persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others; 8. Persons with disabilities in need of health services due to COVID19 cannot be deprioritized on the ground of their disability; 9. Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) can and should play a key role in raising awareness of persons with disabilities and their families; and 10. OPDs can and should play a key role in advocating for disability-inclusive response to the COVID19 crisis. Prescinding from a gender lens on disability, the UNFPA xi and the Gender in Humanitarian Action in the Asia and the Pacificxii have developed key messages in responding to COVID-19, as follows: 1. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by epidemics. In particular, women and girls who face multiple forms of inequalities due to disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age and ethnic minority may be even more vulnerable; 2. Outbreak experience means that women’s domestic burden becomes exacerbated making their share of household responsibilities even heavier; 3. Epidemics compound existing gender inequalities, increasing risks of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation and abuse. Children are also more at risk of violence. The protection needs of women and girls must be at the center of response efforts; 4. Provision of family planning and other sexual and reproductive health commodities, including menstrual health items, are central to women’s health, empowerment, and sustainable development and may be impacted as supply chains undergo strains from pandemic response; 5. Safe pregnancies and childbirth depend on functioning health systems and strict adherence to infection prevention. During crisis, services may be diverted when health services are overburdened, resulting in interrupted pre- and post-natal healthcare. From these recommendations and key messages, the following can be deduced, to wit:   The government must be aware of the particular needs of persons with disabilities (e.g., due regard to types of impairment and sector, i.e., women and children with disabilities), including how to appropriately and adequately fulfill them; thus, the government is expected to be proactive by tapping the Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO), the respective focal persons xiii in the local government units, and directly the organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in ensuring the rendition of appropriate services for persons with disabilities; With due consideration to the appropriate method of communication per type of impairment, it remains urgent to disseminate information on COVID-19 and build capacity, particularly on the following: ◦ infection mitigating tips; ◦ public restriction plans; 6