Policy paper

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

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 Population Fund (UNFPA) ##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:

Commitments to eliminate Stigma and Discrimination

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours

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

• UNFPA commits to disseminate recommendations to address stigma and discrimination from new global research: Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 
• Integrate work that addresses stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours on disability, through the Organization’s core programmes on maternal health, family planning, STI/HIV prevention and response, Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), gender based violence and harmful practices 
• Commit to developing a UNFPA Disability Strategy to support mainstreaming disability inclusiveness in corporate policies and programmes

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

• Global Study dissemination: September 2018 – September 2019 
• Address stereotypes, attitudes and behaviors regarding disability through programmes being implemented during current Strategic Plan period 2018-2022 
• Develop first draft of Disability Study by end of 2018, finalize draft in early 2019, implement from 2019 onwards

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Commitments for Inclusive Education

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

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

• Develop Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) Guide for out of school programmes, with a disability component 
• Continue to advocate for CSE curricula and programmes that are inclusive of disability, though UNFPA’s on-going advocacy and support to countries on CSE

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)  * CSE Guide for out of school programmes to be launched and disseminated starting December 2018  * Advocacy for CSE to be inclusive of disability will continue throughout UNFPA’s current Strategic Plan period (2018-2022)

Commitments for Data Disaggregation

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):

• Within the new UNFPA Census Strategy, UNFPA commits to advocating for collection of data on disability in all 2020 round of censuses, using the core Washington Group questions on disability

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

• Implementation of this commitment will take place throughout the course of the current UNFPA Strategic Plan period (2018 – 2022)

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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):

• Launch Guidelines for Providing Rights-based and Gender-responsive Services to Address Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Women and Young People with Disabilities 
• UNFPA and Women Enabled International developed these comprehensive guidelines to support programmes providing the full range of sexual and reproductive health services and GBV prevention and response services for women and young persons with disabilities 
• Integrate disability inclusiveness through the Organization’s core programmes on maternal health, family planning, STI/HIV prevention and response, CSE, gender based violence and harmful practices

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)  * Guidelines to be launched in September 2018 and rolled out throughout UNFPA’s current Strategic Plan period (2018-2022) including with UNFPA Regional Offices and Country Offices  * Strengthening disability inclusiveness throughout UNFPA’s programmes on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender issues including preventing and responding to gender based violence and harmful practices, during current Strategic Plan period 2018-2022

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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):

• UNFPA commits to signing the Humanitarian Disability Charter, developed during the World Humanitarian Summit (2016) 
• UNFPA commits to strengthening disability inclusion within the design and implementation of sexual and reproductive health and rights programing in humanitarian contexts

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

This commitment will be undertaken throughout UNFPA’s current Strategic Plan period (2018-2022)

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