Policy paper

Qatar Foundation for Social Work

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 Qatar Foundation for Social Work

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.

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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: 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):

Enhancing advocacy and awareness creation activities for developing a collective understanding of human rights of persons with disabilities and streamlining these rights into the ongoing national sustainable development. Efforts for monitoring and tracking the implementation of the disability-inclusive development will continue gaining momentum over the plan period, guided by the banner of the 2030 Global Development Agenda “leaving one behind”.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Continuous programme within the National Development Strategy 2018-2022.

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):

Our organization is committed to partner with the government and private sector institutions with the purpose of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels. In this context, we continue working in harmony with relevant stakeholders to provide equal opportunities and freedom from exclusion to PWDs and to have an effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programs, placement services and vocational and continuing training as outlined in CRPD article 27.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

C. Commitments for Economic Empowerment:

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Inclusive social protection systems

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

Our organization will continue promoting inclusive social protection to persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others, and that social protection floors and systems take the specific requirements of PWDs into account in defining benefits. We are determined to propagate further the right of attainment of decent work by PWDs on equal basis with others, and to ensure the enjoyment of this entitlement as beneficiaries and benefactors. Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

D. Commitments for Technology and Innovation:

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Join Global Partnership for Assistive Technology

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

We are strongly committed to enhancing reliable, comparable and disaggregated data and information, with a view to breaking the cycle of exclusion, particularly in areas of education, employment, health and social protection. Such data and information are also necessary to help policymakers to recognize the rights of PWDs to work on an equal basis with others, and to work in a labour market and environment that is open, inclusive and acceptable to PWDs.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

E. Commitments for Data Disaggregation:

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Sign up to the Inclusive Data Charter

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

We are highly engaged in proactive programs for achieving gender equality and empowerment of women and girls (SDG 5). To realize this goal, we must adhere to the CRPD articles relating to: recognition that women and girls are subjected to multiple discrimination, violence and exploitation; effectuating women- and child-focused policies and legislation supporting their economic and social wellbeing; their rights to participate in political and public life; their reproductive health and civic rights.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)