4. 5. 6. 7. 8. of children with disabilities, and organizations for persons and children with disabilities to complement the data of the LGUs; Including all households of persons with disabilities and those with children with disabilities as beneficiaries of cash assistance and should not be lesser than what is provided to the general population; Including all the households of persons with disabilities and those with children with disabilities in the provision of relief goods or food vouchers provided by the national and local government; Identifying and including the costs of their other disability-specific needs in the assistance to be provided to persons and children with disabilities. These needs include medicines/maintenance medicines, therapy, transportation, personal assistance, assistive devices, psychosocial support among others. These additional needs are crucial to mitigating the impact of community quarantine; Including mask, menstrual, sanitation and hygiene kits in the assistance being provided; and Undertaking measures to safeguard the households with children and persons with disabilities to prevent domestic violence, harassment, exploitation, abuses and all forms of gender-based violence. In addition to the aforesaid, the CHR observes that social distancing measures should take into account the factor of disability, and how the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic would not worsen the barriers confronting persons with disabilities. The government, both national and local, must ensure that adequate standard of living and social protection are respected, protected and fulfilled by:  not neglecting to supply daily ration of quality food, water, medicine and other basic necessities to persons with disabilities in their constituencies;  keeping in mind that providing the basic necessities to persons with disabilities are manifestations of the government's compliance with its commitment to respect, protect and fulfill human rights and not out of charity to persons with disabilities;  ensuring the prompt issuance of quarantine pass to the personal assistants of persons with disabilities, such as those who are either mobility or visually impaired, even the deaf and hard of hearing, among others; Additionally, recognizing that reasonable accommodation includes the recognition of personal assistants when they need to accompany persons with disabilities in groceries and in seeking government assistance or support;  timely releasing of adequate amount of social pensions to persons with disabilities as may be applicable;  paying, through the PhilHealth, for the costs of COVID-19 testing should persons with disabilities manifest symptoms of the disease. Therefore, the current concerns are on the accessibility, acceptability and quality criteria. As earlier stated in this advisory, the root cause remains that persons with disabilities are not part of decision-making to address the COVID-19 pandemic, in emergency response and relief operations. More so, intervention has not taken into account multiple and intersecting vulnerabilities. Even during situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies, the mantra of persons with disabilities remain: “Nothing about us without us.” Planning, programming, and implementing pursuant to the twin-track approach The rights-based model of disability is implemented through the twin-track approach that: 9