Policy paper

Islamic Relief Worldwide

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

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Name of organisation Islamic Relief Worldwide

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 ☒

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: 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):

• Implementing the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards for older people and people with disabilities and IR commitments for the Inclusion Charter and the Charter for People with Disabilities in IRW programmes.

• Developing a disability inclusion policy as an integral part of protection mainstreaming and implement this policy through protective, inclusive and accountable approaches to programming.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-2 years

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Representation and empowerment of persons with disabilities

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

• Establishing and strengthening active partnerships with DPOs platforms at both international and national level explicitly reaching out PWD’s representation at all levels of programming ensuring gender and cultural/ contextual sensitivities and supporting and capacitating local DPOs to strengthen and develop the disability movement.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1- 5 years

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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):

• Building capacity, knowledge and understanding of IR COs on the CRPD and protective and inclusive programming.

• Tackling stigma and discrimination through a clear faith and disability position and influencing existing initiative of involving faith, traditional and community leaders.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1- 5 years

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B. Commitments for Inclusive Education

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Additional resources and implementation

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

• All school infrastructure contracted by IR will meet universal accessible design criteria, including classrooms and sanitation facilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1 – 5 years

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Policy, standards and regulations

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

• Committing to de-institutionalisation of children with disabilities in formal and in-formal settings and piloting alternative protective and inclusive educational solutions.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-5 years

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C. Commitments for Economic Empowerment

D. Commitments for Technology and Innovation

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):

• Exploring new untraditional partnerships for new programmes with the use of digital technology to support PWD access to services and allow them to participate and voice themselves.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-5 years

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Access to financial services

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

• Involving persons with disabilities in planning livelihood projects, including cash transfer initiatives and microfinance, to ensure they can benefit on an equal basis with others.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-5 years

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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):

• Leading on the Inclusion Charter in humanitarian settings and committing to supporting other organisations on the collection and disaggregation of disability data in partnership and coordination with DPOs at national and international level.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-3 years

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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):

• Committing to the collection and disaggregation of disability data using Washington Group questions to ensure PWD are not left behind.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-3 years

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F. Commitments for Women and Girls with Disabilities

G. Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts

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

• Committing to implementing inclusive gender that analyses and act upon the intersectional identities of all women and girls with disabilities and the protection risks they face on different levels.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-5 years

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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):

• Strengthening initiatives of protective and inclusive programming in humanitarian context, evidencing and collecting data about best practices of disability inclusion in a gender sensitive way.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

1-3 years

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