Policy paper

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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

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Name of organisation United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

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: Representation and empowerment of persons with disabilities

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

UNHCR will enhance the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities, throughout the operations management cycle, and will consult them on protection and solutions.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

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Commitments for Inclusive Education

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Policy, standards and regulations

Capacity building: teachers and staff

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

UNHCR will improve equitable access to quality education for displaced children, including refugee children with disabilities, working with partners, including governments on national system participation.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

In close cooperation with partners, UNHCR will advocate for and work towards the inclusion of all displaced children in national education systems. UNHCR will support capacity building on inclusive education for UNHCR staff, partners, teachers and education personnel. In order to reinforce inclusive planning and programming, UNHCR will also improve data collection, identify and disseminate good practices from its education programmes (provision of assistive devices, community-based approaches…) as well as producing global recommendations.

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Commitments for Economic Empowerment

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: access to decent work, access to financial services, skills development for decent work.

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UNHCR will invest in the capacities of persons with disabilities and will improve their access to livelihoods opportunities, on an equal basis with other persons of concern.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This forms part of ongoing economic inclusion initiatives for refugees. Implementation will include: 1) Supporting efforts to understand/identify reasons of levels of access to livelihoods opportunities by refugees with disability; 2) based on results of the assessment, adopt approaches/interventions that address these barriers and purposely ensure inclusion of refugees in economic inclusion programs including skills development, employment and entrepreneurial activities, financial inclusion, etc.; 3) engaging relevant partners - private sector, development and government actors -to include refugees with disabilities in their livelihoods/economic inclusion programs

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Commitments for Data Disaggregation $CTA

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

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UNHCR will incorporate the Washington Group question set into its continuous registration process to improve identification and protection of persons with disabilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

The use of Washington Group questions was piloted in Jordan. In 2018-2019 additional pilots will be implemented using different methodologies, for example the use of WG short set of 6 questions at continuous registration and the extended set at household surveys. Following the pilots, guidance will be provided on which WG-related methodology can be implemented in different data collection scenarios. Changes will be made to data collection tools accordingly.

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