Women's Refugee Commission
Published 23 July 2018
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Form for submitting commitments for the Global Disability Summit 2018
Your organisation:
Type of organisation: Civil Society Organisation Name of organisation: Women’s Refugee Commission
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:
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):
The Women’s Refugee Commission commits to collect, analyze, and report sex-, age-, and disability disaggregated data in its research, advocacy, and program work to strengthen the quality and inclusiveness of our activities.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
We commit to this throughout all WRC’s programs and research.
F. Commitments for Women and Girls with Disabilities
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The WRC will provide technical expertise and leadership on gender equality, gender-based violence prevention and response, and women’s participation and empowerment in the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. The WRC also commits to ensuring that the new IASC Guidelines will be gender sensitive. (see commitment under G)
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
See commitment G.
G. Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts
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The Women’s Refugee commits to supporting the IASC Task Team in developing the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. We commit to engage organizations of women with disabilities from conflict-affected countries in the development and support the guidelines roll-out and implementation through 2020. We will assist with the piloting of the guidelines through supporting innovative partnerships between women’s DPO’s and GBV actors in humanitarian settings.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
End of 2018: piloting and testing of initial draft guidelines Early 2019: Finalization of IASC Guidelines