Policy paper

IDARA-E-TALEEM-O-AAGAHI (ITA)

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

IMPORTANT: Please refer to the accompanying guidance note for advice on completing this form and please fill in all four sections in English.

Your organisation

Type of organisation: Civil Society Organisation If other: Click or tap here to enter text. Name of organisation IDARA-E-TALEEM-O-AAGAHI (ITA)

Charter for Change

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Your organisation’s commitments to achieve the rights of people with disabilities in developing countries:

A. Commitments to eliminate Stigma and Discrimination:

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): Raise awareness through massive media campaign in order to eliminate discriminatory and derogatory attitude/practice for people with disabilities

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Time frame: Next 5 years.

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B. Commitments for Inclusive Education

C. Commitments for Economic Empowerment

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 organize teacher trainings in collaboration with government and private providers/DPOs to increase their capacity and inculcate inclusive education (teaching & learning) and assessment practices across schools and professional development institutions. We have initiated earlier such materials teacher guides/training manuals with STEP/World Bank –Just like Other Kids publications and puppet shows –Review of Manuals for inclusive text is needed and enabling environment/visuals in classrooms

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Time frame: Already working this for the next 9 months with Special education department government of Punjab to increase the capacity of government school/private teachers in assessment. We can extend this to a medium term effort with Special Ed Depts and DPOs/Teacher training institutions for development of such modules for all levels (ECE, Elementary and Secondary) Sightsavers have also worked on this –will be a collaborative approach through partnerships for accelerated targets and outcomes.

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Inclusive environments in the workplace

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit): To introduce equal opportunities for persons with disabilities and ensure their equal participation with dignity and without stigma

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

ITA endorses equal opportunities for everyone and will join hands with other civil society organizations/DPOs and industry to demand access to and achievement of 2 percent quota as given – and also agreed in the new manifestos of political parties for decent work for persons with disabilities in the next 5 years (www.rtepakistan.org).

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D. Commitments for Technology and Innovation

E. Commitments for Data Disaggregation

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Commit resources to support strengthened disability data

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit): Generate disability and gender disaggregated data set to inform wider reforms and scale of the problem through household surveys (www.aserpakistan.org). ITA is already working in this sphere with both donors and downstream partners for better sensitive data for planning and also assessment tools for hearing and visual impaired with some adaptations these may be used across many countries and contexts. PAL Network with which ITA is associated as a member is also working on the theme of inclusion and has 15 countries who can learn from this experience and technical expertise (www.palnetwork.org)

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

ITA is already involve in collection of data on disability by using Washington Group Survey. ITA will further adapt ASER Tools to Pakistan Sign Language (PSL) and Braille with videos and audios for testing children and collection of representative data set. This exercise has started and will finish with definite results till next April 2019.

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: New programmes or services

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit): Join hands with other civil society organizations/DPOs and tech incubators to ensure introduction of new services and programs to improve the availability of appropriate – affordable and accessible assistive technology -

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Time frame: Next 5 years

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F. Commitments for Women and Girls with Disabilities

G. Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts

H. Other Commitments

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit): To ensure through outreach education and skills Programs such as Siyani Saheli for Adolescent Girls (9-19 Years) targeting of girls with disabilities –this is a critical target group in our program in South Punjab, Pakistan- data from this work is being rigorously tracked (https://www.facebook.com/ITA.A3G/). ###Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

ITA already is working in the field in service delivery and advocacy campaigns on Right to Education ensuring that girls /adolescents are reached out and targeted through all of its programs nationwide (www.rtepakistan.org).

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Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit): A major area of support in Humanitarian Crises for ITA since 2005 Earthquake and displaced persons.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Committed as part of a mainstream agenda on attention to inclusions disabilities in emergencies; ITA developed Individualized Education Cards/Profiles of each child to address PWDs and also for their placements during and post emergencies as transition populations (www.itacec.org).

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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): To ensure that content of local books also have stories where children with disabilities are visible and stigma is clearly addressed positively.

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