Global Status Report on Disability and Development Prototype 2015 unedited version
Financing for disability-inclusive development
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5.3Financing for disability-inclusive developmentThe Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was held in July 2015 and gathered high-level political representatives, including Heads of State and Government, and Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, as well as all relevant institutional stakeholders, non-governmental organizations and business sector entities. The Conference resulted in an inter-governmentally negotiated and agreed outcome, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, 574 which constitutes an important contribution to a disability inclusive 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, in the Agenda, Members States commit to:
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is important for raising public resources in countries with limited capacity, and accordingly, the Agenda urges developed countries “to step up efforts to increase their ODA and to make additional concrete efforts towards the ODA targets” to developing countries.575 ODA, if properly directed, can drive inclusive development and better facilitate access for persons with disabilities to education, employment, social protection and ICT. Moreover, reversing the declining share of ODA to least developing countries, as pledged in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, would also help these countries to move towards disability inclusive development. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda also encourages Member States and the business sector to work in partnership with regional and national organizations. If disability organizations are included, the needs of persons with disabilities can be better addressed in financing for development. In addition, the following aspects can assist financing for disability-inclusive development: 576
5.4Disability-inclusive international development cooperationSince the adoption of the UN Convention in 2006, there has been an increase in global commitment to address and respond to the needs and concerns of persons with disabilities in development. This is reflected in the steady increase in global funding to disability-specific international development projects since 2007 (Figure ). Despite this rise, financing for disability in development still remains low compared to other vulnerable groups. Figure . Concessional financing for projects targeting disability, 2000-2013 
*2013 constant US dollars. Source: OECD. 577 As the international community prepares for the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, there have been increasing efforts and recognition of the importance of taking more concerted action to incorporate disability in international development cooperation activities. The international community has repeatedly called for development cooperation strategies to adopt a twin-track approach, involving a combination of disability-specific initiatives as well as inclusive programming, through the mainstreaming of disability in all processes of development.578 However, although many bilateral development agencies have considerable experience in implementing programs that have been specifically designed for persons with disabilities, mainstreaming of disability within overall frameworks for development cooperation remains a challenge.579 Often disability issues are approached in silos, without interaction or synergies with sectoral projects and programs. Effective mainstreaming relies on clear technical guidelines for mainstreaming as well as collaborative partnerships between disability experts and sectoral experts as well as a system-wide mandate requiring results to be disaggregated by disability to ensure disability issues are not siloed or treated as an ‘add on’.580 Moreover, programs addressing disability issues have sometimes grouped persons with disabilities with other marginalised groups for the purpose of measuring the overall impact of a development project.581 Following this approach, there is a risk that the impact of projects on persons with disabilities remains ‘invisible’ among the more ‘visible’ social groups. Shortcomings in the availability of consistent and reliable data have posed on going challenges in the area of disability and development. In the absence of consistently generated data in communities, longer-term impacts from programmes and projects are often difficult to measure. In this respect, it has been recognised by donor agencies that the capacity building needs of countries and statistical offices needs to be filled. In recent years, there has been a major push by large donors such as DFID and DFAT to strengthen capacity and technical support to recipient governments in the area of disability data and statistics.582 This is of critical importance in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development to ensure persons with disabilities are being reached under relevant goals and targets. Similarly, it is impossible to effectively monitor the impact of development programs without the active participation of persons with disabilities. Participatory monitoring should be a goal in and of itself in all development projects. This principle has been incorporated into a number of international aid, with donors, such as Australia, Italy and Norway, funding capacity-building of organizations of persons with disabilities in aid-recipient countries, however further capacity building and technical assistance to organizations of persons with disabilities needs to take place to fully equip these groups to contribute to all stages of development processes.583 International cooperation needs also to focus on addressing inequalities in technology transfers specifically experienced by persons with disabilities. Making commitments for disability-inclusive technology transfer is essential to reducing inequalities in aid recipient countries. Directory: disabilities -> documents documents -> United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Building Inclusive Society and Development through Promoting ict accessibility: Emerging Issues and Trends documents -> Summary of comments (25 September 2015) documents -> Sixth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities disabilities -> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Telecommunication Device Distribution Program revised Jan. 31, 2017 documents -> United Nations crpd/csp/2010/CR disabilities -> Guide to Embedding Disability Studies into the Humanities disabilities -> Participating organizations Members of the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities documents -> Common beliefs documents -> Sixty-seventh session Item 70 (a) of the provisional agenda Download 0.81 Mb. Share with your friends:
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