[Azra Bakovic]

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[Daniel Mont]

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From Rosangela:

 

Based on the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) must be in the center of decisions and processes (from design through implementation and evaluation) of everything planned/built/offered to persons with disabilities, both targeted and inclusive interventions, in development and humanitarian contexts. Failing to accomplish this principle would mean failing.to the implementation of their rights and of achieving the dream of a world-class disability-inclusive society. Having past more than 16 years since the adoption of the UNCRPD, it is time to accelerate investment in OPD’s and persons with disabilities’ capacity and participation.

– Are DPOs ready to respond to the increasing demand for their informed advice? If yes, please provide examples of good practices. If not, what would be needed to progressively increase their capacity and the quality of their contribution? What should be the roll of the different stakeholders (IDA and other global, regional and national OPDs and other partnering CSOs, government, donors, UN System, Private Sector, media, social media, among others)?

– In the case of children and young adolescents with disabilities, there are both rights and ethic-related challenges, among others – in promoting their participation and capturing their voices. How can we ensure that, besides the involvement of their family members’ organizations and their direct (still very reduced) participation through consent consultations, ” adults” OPD’s also assume their responsibility to defend the rights of children with disabilities. Should training be available for adults with disabilities to engage in advocacy together with children and adolescents with disabilities?

[Talal]

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I would say yes and no.

1. It’s the post UNCRPD world where bigger development actors have stepped forward to own, implement and facilitate the disability inclusion agenda – so it’s a yes on advocacy, visibility and bringing this change of institutional thinking. The change process took its due-time but the world is at a point where this topic is receiving the attention it deserves. the advise by OPDs have credit for it.
2. On community level it’s a sad “no” with the progress being made on different fronts owing to: A:Varying capacities of OPDs. B: Varying expectations from OPDs from different groups of stakeholders. C: Scattered approach by all the stakeholders, at times leading to duplication of resources in this highly resource-constraint world.

 

What is needed:

1. 1. Unified implementation to be agreed towards implementation of SDGs by OPDs, with STRONG representation of children with disabilities and youth-led OPDs.
2. Expectations management by various stakeholders keeping in view communities and contextual realities.
3. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of mutual coordination from national to global level.
4. Globally consolidated capacity development drive for OPDs, keeping track of levels of capacities across communities we serve.

[Elizabeth Ombati]

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I would respond my answer based on the fact that I have benefitted from the capacity building trainings especially the Bridge CRPD SDGs training done by IDA, and also the intent to include underrepresented groups of persons with disabilities in these trainings. I see that this has been one way to support the disability movement/OPDs to respond to the increasing demand for their informed advice. I would for example pick the Inclusion Works program (the FCDO funded program on inclusive employment/livelihoods), and this work has been documented, of how an OPD engagement mechanism was very instrumental in supporting the meaningful engagement of OPDs within international development programming, as well as within the broader framework of CRPD inclusive programming; because increasingly we stop seeing OPDs as being only mobilisers, but we see them as offering technical expertise in the implementation of projects; OPDs then work hand in hand with international development partners not just as recipients, but as partners working together to deliver on interventions, etc, but again, it is impossible to carry on these roles if there is no investment in their expertise; the quality of contribution for example, framing the expertise on the CRPD what the Bridge trainings really try to do, to ground the advocacy of OPDs within the human rights based frameworks, in-depth understanding of the CRPD, much more than that, linking OPDs with development partners, linking OPDs with relevant opportunities to increase their knowledge on sometimes technical thematic areas where they are needed to also offer advice etc.

I also think that now there is more awareness around working intersectionally with more intention to work with groups that tend to be more marginalized, including youth with disabilities which is a good space to keep working, as well as working cross-movement.

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