Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Updated 7 August 2018
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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: Multilateral Organisation
If other: Click or tap here to enter text.
Name of organisation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
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:
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):
FAO commits to giving special attention to the full inclusion of rural persons with disabilities in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of social protection systems, by ensuring that social protection schemes target and effectively reach them, rural services are tailored to their special needs, and mechanisms exist to include them in complementary rural development interventions to enable their full participation as active members of society.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
It is envisaged that the above commitment will be met by end 2020.
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Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts
Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit):
FAO commits to integrating questions about the needs of persons with disabilities in its needs assessments, using the Washington Group Short Set of Questions where possible and appropriate according to the context. FAO also commits to moving towards disaggregating its monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian and resilience building projects to ascertain the impact of its interventions on persons with disabilities.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)
It is envisaged that the two above commitments will be met by end 2019.
Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.