Policy paper

EU-CORD

Published 23 July 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Form for submitting commitments for the Global Disability Summit 2018

Your organisation

Type of organisation: Civil Society Organisation

Name of organisation EU-CORD

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

Commitments to eliminate Stigma and Discrimination

A. Please select the category which your commitment most relates to:

Stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit):

Through our members, to sensitise partners, faith leaders and other organisations to see where the intersection between faith and disabilities has a positive or negative force in community attitudes and behaviours towards people with disabilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

To promote dialogue, information sharing and internal/external advocacy in line with our 2018-2020 strategic framework.

Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Policy, legislation and its implementation

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit):

As a network to work with and through IDDC to lobby for a European Union policy framework which is inclusive of persons with disabilities and coherent across different policy areas in external action in line with UN CRPD and 2030 Agenda commitments. We are influencing the negotiations for the UN Global Compact on Migration from an inclusion perspective, and we will continue to do so with regards to its implementation.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Implementation in conjunction with the IDDC EU Task Group and the IDDC strategic framework.

B. Commitments for Inclusive Education

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Capacity building: teachers and staff

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit):

To share learning and good practice within EU-CORD and in co-operation with inclusive education sector experts to promote disability inclusion in teacher training curricula.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

EU-CORD strategic implementation 2018-2020 and workplans.

C. Commitments for Economic Empowerment

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Access to decent work

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit):

EU-CORD will advocate with policy-makers at different levels, especially with the European Union for just economic policies that take social and environmental considerations fully into account. We will monitor and signal how these policies work out, for the better or the worse, for marginalised people. We will contribute to policy making processes with constructive ideas about how to improve economic policy and practice to the benefit of all.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Implemented in the realisation of our Advocacy Vision and in cooperation with CONCORD

D. Commitments for Technology and Innovation

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Other

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit):

To promote initiatives technologies and innovations which assist the participation of persons with disabilities in the family, community and economic life.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Implementation in the realisation of our Advocacy Vision and EU-CORD strategic implementation 2018-2020

E. Commitments for Data Disaggregation

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Commit to use the Washington Group questions

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit):

EU-CORD will support the work of IDDC, advocating for the use of the Washington Group questions and to share learning on how these can be adopted internally in the network.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Implementation in conjunction with IDDC

F. 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):

To work with networks and alliances to ensure that intersectionality on gender and disability is better integrated in civil society positions, especially in relation to European Union development and humanitarian policy and practice.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

In line with EU-CORD’s advocacy vision, IDDC and CONCORD working groups

G. 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):

EU-CORD is a signatory to the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action and will share good practice, learning and advocacy for more inclusive humanitarian aid with networks and alliances. We are also giving input into the European Commission’s new disability-inclusive measures for humanitarian action.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Through the IDDC EU Task Group and the Humanitarian Task Group.

H. Other Commitments

Please enter the exact wording of any other commitment/s that do not fall under the themes above, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit):