Policy paper

Jordan Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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

Your organisation:

Type of organisation: National Government

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Name of organisation The Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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 X

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

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Policy, legislation and its implementation – new or strengthened CRPD-compliant legislation, policy and long-term action plans – and investment in the resources needed to implement them

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By awareness programs that will be implemented by our media team

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Commitments for Inclusive Education

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Inclusive education sector plans (governments only)

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Inclusive education sector plans (government only) - new or strengthened inclusive education sector plans, which coherently link budgets and resources to policy.

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Signing an MoU with the ministry of education to establish four Inclusive schools as a pilot of inclusive education

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Commitments for Economic Empowerment

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Access to financial services

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Access to financial services - e.g. establishment/amendment of financial services and products that are inclusive and equally accessible for people with disabilities

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Try to enforce the law Please copy and paste this box for additional commitments under this theme.

Commitments for Technology and Innovation

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: New programmes or services

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New programmes or services - new accessible programmes or services which improve the availability and affordability of appropriate assistive technology

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By cooperating with Telecommunications Regulatory Authority

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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

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generating or supporting others to generate disability disaggregated data in programmes, census, household surveys or administrative systems.

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By conducting new surveys

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Commitments for Women and Girls with Disabilities

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Because no-one should be left behind

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Targeted interventions such as ensuring legislation, policies and implementation strategies prevent and address violence against women and girls with disabilities – by institutions and individuals.

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Commitments forpeople with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts

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By mainstreaming inclusion across all Disaster Risk Reduction and humanitarian sectors, and implementing our commitments in the Charter ‘Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action’.

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Targeted interventions such as new inclusive humanitarian response funding announcements, new mandatory/recommended guidelines or guidance for implementing partners, new partnerships, capacity building initiatives

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Other Commitments

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