Policy paper

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

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: UN

Name of organisation International Organization for Migration (IOM)

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

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Policy, legislation and its implementation

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

Review and develop more inclusive policies and strategies, setting out an organizational approach to disability inclusion towards beneficiaries.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Other

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Commit to strengthening mainstreaming initiatives on disability inclusion.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Other

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Commit to develop operational tools to assess the inter-linkages between disability and migrant vulnerability to violence, exploitation, and abuse and to develop appropriate programmatic responses.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Policy, legislation and its implementation

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Ensure support to tackle social exclusion in displacement and migration crises pro-actively incorporates persons with disabilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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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):

Collect, analyse and report information on persons with disabilities through the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Commit to use the Washington Group questions Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit): Ensure that data collected is disaggregated to report beneficiaries with a disability and wherever possible using the Washington Group Short Set of Questions or similar tested tools. Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020 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): Ensure that data on disability are disaggregated by sex and are recorded for migrant victims of violence, abuse and exploitation, including victims of trafficking, assisted under IOM’s migrant protection and assistance programming. Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020 Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

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): Promote the meaningful participation of women and girls with disabilities in humanitarian response and recovery programs Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020 Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who have supported its development (75 words limit): Develop and implement interventions that advance the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities and protect them from physical, sexual and other forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and harassment. Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020 Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

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):

Strive to ensure that services and humanitarian assistance are meaningfully accessible for and equally available to persons with disabilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Commit to the implementation of existing guidelines and standards around inclusion and collect and share learning and challenges.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit): Ensure Durable Solutions to displacement include and make provision for solutions for persons with disabilities. Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020 Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

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Sensitize and develop the capacity of humanitarian workers on inclusion of persons with disabilities and the intersection with age and gender.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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Strengthen technical cooperation and partnership with specialized actors and organizations of persons with disabilities to facilitate cross-learning, sharing of information, practices, tools and resources inclusive of persons with disabilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit) 2020

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