Policy paper

The Global Concerns Trust

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 If other: Click or tap here to enter text. Name of organisation: The Global Concerns Trust

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: 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):

The Global Concerns Trust work with MACOHA (Malawi Council for the Handicapped) and KODO (Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach) to decrease stigma attached to disability in rural Malawi by providing training, tools and support to adults with disabilities and supporting them to start successful and sustainable businesses. This results in a change in perception within rural communities towards people with disabilities and demonstrates their potential to be successful business leaders who contribute economically and socially. .

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

By October 2018 we will have supported 355 adults with disabilities living in rural areas of Malawi to start sustainable businesses and become financially independent, 50% of whom will be women. We will work to source funding to continue and expand our disability specific projects in Malawi, to include the provision of disability mainstreaming training to a wide range of international development organisations working in country.

B. Commitments for Inclusive Education:

C. Commitments for Economic Empowerment:

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Skills development for decent work

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

The Global Concerns Trust has worked with MACOHA (Malawi Council for the Handicapped) and KODO (Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach) since 2007, to offer comprehensive vocational training to adults with disabilities living in rural areas in Malawi. Our beneficiaries receive the tools and training needed to start sustainable businesses and the post training support to help them expand their enterprises. We will seek funding to expand our disability specific projects in Malawi to further rural districts.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

By October 2018 we will have supported 355 adults with disabilities living in rural areas of Malawi to start sustainable businesses and become financially independent, 50% of whom will be women. We will work to source funding to continue and expand our projects in Malawi to include the provision of disability mainstreaming training to a wide range of international development organisations working in country.

D. Commitments for Technology and Innovation:

E. Commitments for Data Disaggregation:

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

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):

The Global Concerns Trust disaggregate data from our Malawian projects by gender, age and type of disability. We commit to continue to develop our data collection methods and to use the Washington Group questions within all our development projects in Malawi.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

We will use the Washington Group Questions when collecting data from project participants in Malawi as of July 2018.

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):

50% of our project beneficiaries in Malawi are women with disabilities and we will maintain this level of inclusion of women in future disability specific projects.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

50% of project participants will be women with disabilities in any future disability specific projects implemented by The Global Concerns Trust.