Policy paper

Plan International UK

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

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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: Other

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To implement our Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion, all Plan International UK’s new programmes will systematically identify and address how gender discrimination and exclusion contribute to the non-realisation of children’s rights, including the rights of children with disabilities. New programmes developed will include a gender, age and inclusion analysis, aiming to be gender-transformative by 2022.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This will be implemented as part of plans to contribute to the realisation of 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s Global Strategy, by 2022, which we will monitor progress against in addition to the Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion.

B. Commitments for Inclusive Education:

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

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Plan International UK will contribute to the realisation of one of our key investment areas, Inclusive, Quality Education (IQE). Through the IQE Theory of Change we will support and invest in effective approaches for out-of-school children and adolescents (particularly girls, children with disabilities, and children in crises) to enter and re-enter education; in gender-transformative approaches, practices & behaviour in education; and foster safe and resilient learning environments.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This will be implemented as part of plans to contribute to the realisation of 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s Global Strategy, by 2022, which we will monitor progress against in addition to the Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion.

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):

To implement our Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion, we will work towards all marketing, fundraising, sponsorship, campaigns, global education and media messages: reflecting our commitment to gender equality and disability inclusion; being written in an accessible manner and where feasible made available in multiple languages and alternative formats; and, where feasible, digital platforms being designed, developed and edited with a view to ensuring that all users have equal access to information and functionality.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This will be implemented as part of plans to contribute to the realisation of 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s Global Strategy, by 2022, which we will monitor progress against in addition to the Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion.

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C. Commitments for Economic Empowerment:

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

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In collaboration with Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) Plan International UK is preparing to implement a UK DFID-funded AidConnect project in Kenya and Bangladesh to mainstream disability inclusion in the private sector. The project will target large organisations and enterprises to catalyse sector-wide shifts in opportunities for economic empowerment of young women with disabilities on a large scale. We will use learning from this exciting collaboration to strengthen other economic empowerment initiatives from a disability perspective.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

The project will be implemented over a 3 year period, commencing with a co-creation phase of 6 months in 2018 with DFID and key stakeholders.

D. Commitments for Technology and Innovation:

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

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Plan International UK commits to work closely with colleagues across Plan International to embed accessible ICT4Ds in our programming and influencing, with initiatives such as RehApp, an app that helps community health workers to support people living with disabilities. The app is developed in close collaboration with Enablement and other members of IDDC.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Plan International UK will continue to embed these approaches over the coming 4 years, like supporting opportunities to embed RehApp in projects as developments progress, for example with plans for two new RehApp chapters in 2018, and greater background information on common impairments by 2019 end.

E. Commitments for Data Disaggregation:

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

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Plan International UK will support Plan International’s development and rollout of a guidance note on sex, age and disability data disaggregation in emergencies, which will reflect the SPHERE and core humanitarian guidelines. This will include guidance on collecting self-identification data, as an alternative to the Washington criteria, for which there is insufficient time available to implement during crises contexts.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

We will support its rollout with country office staff and deployable humanitarian staff for uptake across our work in emergencies.

F. Commitments for Women and Girls with Disabilities:

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We will build on learning and recommendations from a 2017 research report Let Me Decide and Thrive, produced in collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the research focuses on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of girls and young women with disabilities). This includes supporting the development of a global programme model that converts learning and recommendations into practical approaches for country office colleagues and partners.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Plan International UK will work with country and regional offices to support the development of the global programme model, including an initial write-shop in 2018, and once the model is contextualised and piloted, support its scale up in other countries where there is both a clear need and an expressed demand for practical solutions.

G. Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts:

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Plan International UK has committed to the Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities, as companion standards to Sphere, and commit to support their rollout and uptake as minimum standards to be incorporated across our regional and country office approaches to humanitarian response.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) We will support the rollout of the standards as part of plans to contribute to the realisation of 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s Global Strategy, by 2022, which we will monitor progress against.

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Plan International UK commits to working towards sexual and reproductive health and rights services that are gender-responsive, rights-based, adolescent- and youth-friendly, that are available and accessible to the most vulnerable and excluded adolescents and young people, including but not limited to migrants, children, adolescents and youth from ethnic minorities and indigenous groups, with disabilities and/or identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, questioning and other identities (LGBTIQ+).

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This will be implemented as part of plans to contribute to the realisation of 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s Global Strategy, by 2022, which we will monitor progress against, and in line with our internal approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

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): Learning and Capacity Development: Plan International UK commits to take forward learning, building on the Introduction to Disability Rights training module for existing and new staff. This module forms part of a broader suite of training on gender equality and inclusion in Plan International known as Planting Equality 2.0.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Plan International UK will work with Plan International offices to support the uptake of the module between now and the end of the strategy in 2022.

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Plan International UK is supporting the revision of an emergency response manual to incorporate disability inclusion and outline minimum expectations, to ensure our programmes are in line with minimum SPHERE humanitarian inclusion standards. This tool for frontline staff and country offices will provide support to implement the basics from the start of each humanitarian response. It will incorporate guidance on sex, age and disability-data disaggregation in cross-over with our guidance note as mentioned above.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This will be implemented as part of plans to contribute to the realisation of 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s Global Strategy, by 2022, which we will monitor progress against.

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):

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Workplace Diversity:

We are committed to having a diverse workforce. Plan International UK’s human resource systems and policies will concretely promote gender equality, diversity and disability inclusion, as part of our commitment to implement our Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion. Gender equality and disability inclusion are increasingly integrated into job descriptions, staff objectives, accountability and performance management systems, including recruitment, talent management, retention, promotion, training, remuneration and succession plans.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This will be implemented over the next 4 years to support the realisation of Plan International’s Global Strategy, which we will monitor in addition to the Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion. 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):

Partnership:

Plan International UK commits to strengthen and build partnerships that promote respect for gender equality, diversity and inclusion. We will engage partners in joint approaches to promote gender equality, girls’ rights, and inclusion, and expand our partnership base giving particular emphasis to representative groups such as women’s and girls’ rights movements, disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), indigenous rights movements, and LGBTIQ networks, among others.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) This is a specific commitment outlined within our Global Policy on Gender Equality and Inclusion. Progress towards this commitment will be monitored and reviewed on an annual basis up to the end of the global strategy in 2022.