CARE International
Published 23 July 2018
Form for submitting commitments for the Global Disability Summit 2018
Your organisation
Type of organisation: Civil Society Organisation
Name of organisation CARE International
Charter for Change
Please read the attached Summit Charter for Change: the principal legacy of the Summit. If your organisation is happy to sign up to the Charter, please confirm by putting a cross in the box below.
My organisation signs up to the Summit Charter for Change X
Your organisation’s commitments to achieve the rights of people with disabilities in developing countries
A. Commitments for Women and Girls with Disabilities:
Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit):
CARE International commits to work with other actors, including disabled peoples organisations, to identify ways to factor disability in the implementation of Rapid Gender Analysis and wider efforts on needs assessment in humanitarian responses; leveraging the forthcoming roll-out of the new Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Handbook on Gender in Humanitarian Action.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
CARE International will reach out to stakeholders involved in the implementation of the Rapid Gender Analysis by end of 2018, and pending outcomes of this, we will look to follow-up through field-level efforts in 2019.
B. Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts:
Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit):
CARE International commits to work with other organisations and networks to facilitate participation of disabled peoples organisations in a new Task Team on Localisation under the Gender Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) under the Global Protection Cluster in the UN/NGO humanitarian cluster coordination system.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
CARE International will reach out to disabled peoples organisations and networks by end of 2018, and we will work with them to identify funding opportunities to support participation by DPOs in a global workshop of the Task Team on Localisation in Spring 2019, as well as engagement in field-level follow-up after that (pending outcomes of the global workshop).