Policy paper

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Updated 7 August 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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: -

Name of organisation: International Labour Organization (ILO)

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 to eliminate Stigma and Discrimination N/A

Commitments for Inclusive Education: N/A

Commitments for Economic Empowerment:

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to:

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

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

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

In line with the recommendations made in the World Social Protection report 2017-19, the ILO will support the monitoring of target 1.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals by developing, in collaboration with other organizations, the adequate guidance and tools, as well as technical advice to countries that are promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities in social protection systems, including social protection floors.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

A global project will allow that by the end of 2020, the ILO, in collaboration, among others, with UNICEF, World Bank and the International Disability Alliance, will have produced and tested the relevant tools and will have provided assistance to at least seven developing countries interested in including persons with disabilities in their social protection systems.

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

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

Building on the achievements of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network, spearhead the promotion of employment of persons with disabilities in the private sector in developing countries through collaboration with national business and disability networks as well as the tripartite constituents of the ILO (Governments, employers’ federations and workers’ associations) and Disabled People’s Organizations.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

The ILO will mobilise additional resources for the promotion of the private sector employment of persons with disabilities by leveraging strategic partnerships for the achievement of target 8.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals. At country level, the ILO will establish new and strengthen existing national business and disability networks, as well as work with ILO’s tripartite constituency to create more enabling legal and policy environments for the employment of persons with disabilities.

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Commitments for Technology and Innovation: N/A

Commitments for Data Disaggregation

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Commit to use the Washington Group questions

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In order to monitor the progress towards the goals set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially goals regarding labour market outcomes and access to social protection of persons with disabilities, the ILO will contribute to the production of disability-disaggregated data by promoting the inclusion of Washington Group questions in labour force surveys and other household surveys.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

The ILO, will promote the use of the Washington Group questions in labour force surveys at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in October 2018, and together with the Washington Group, will develop a labour force survey module on obstacles people with disabilities face in the labour market, by the end of 2019. Further, the ILO will provide the required technical assistance to national statistical offices and Ministries of Labour to support the collection, analysis and dissemination of disability disaggregated data.

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