Policy paper

Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Published 23 July 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.

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Name of organisation Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland ##2. 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 for Data Disaggregation

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

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Finland is committed to strengthen the data and evidence of disability by introducing a minimum requirement of collecting disability disaggregated data for all programmes funded by Finland. Finland will promote the use the Washington Group Short Set of questions as a key method for data collection and disaggregation.

Finland will ensure the implementation and accountability for this commitment by renewing the guidelines on cross-cutting objectives in collaboration with the organizations of persons with disabilities, and by providing mandatory training for all key MFA staff and other stakeholders responsible for implementing Finnish development cooperation. Finland will also align its internal guidelines to match with the criteria in the OECD-DAC disability marker, and will start adopt it progressively as soon as it is officially introduced.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Training on the use of the Washington Group Short Set of Questions - tool will be organized to key MFA staff and stakeholder by end of 2018. The renewed guidelines on implementing the cross-cutting objectives and the training plan will be in place by spring 2019. Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

Commitments for people with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts

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Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland is committed to further strengthen mainstreaming of disability rights across its development policy and programme. Finland is doing this by renewing one of its three cross-cutting objectives to become non-discrimination with a specific attention to address discrimination against persons with disabilities.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

Finland will ensure the implementation and accountability for this commitment by renewing the guidelines on cross-cutting objectives in collaboration with the organizations of persons with disabilities, and by providing mandatory training for all key MFA staff and other stakeholders responsible for implementing Finnish development cooperation. The timeframe for this commitment is to have the renewed guidelines and training plan in place by spring 2019.

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