In New Zealand, funded mental health institutions or psychiatric hospitals have been closed. Most mental health care and disability support is now provided in the community. The Ministry of Health does not keep a register of institutionalised persons. The Ministry administers the Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD), which is the national collection for mental health and addiction service outcomes and outcome data for mental health consumers information collection called. District health boards (DHBs) are funded to procure mental health services to meet the needs of their population. DHBs keep administrative records on the mental health patients in their care. International cooperation (art. 32) 30. Please provide information about the efforts surrounding and the impact on the disability-inclusive development policies and foreign aid programme, taken into consideration for the effective and comprehensive implementation of the Convention and Sustainable Development Goals. Reply to paragraph 30 MFAT The New Zealand Aid Programme: initiated a policy requiring all designs for structures we build that are funded by Official Development Assistance (e.g. buildings, pathways) to consider the access needs of people with disabilities. It is not mandatory for designs to allow universal access but reasons for not doing so must be stated and justified. New Zealand adopted the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Accessibility Design Guide to ensure that access is the default standard when planning, designing and constructing buildings and structures provided funds to disability aid projects including strengthening health and education services for people with disabilities, providing opportunities for economic well-being and improving disability-inclusive approaches to disaster risk reduction and management. To implement the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action in Pacific disaster preparedness and humanitarian response, we have: commissioned a gap analysis on the disability-inclusive humanitarian actions in the Pacific (December 2017) completed a disability survey to support the Government of Tonga’s response to Tropical Cyclone Gita (February 2018) a multi-year partnership with the Pacific Disability Forum and CBM New Zealand to build the capability of New Zealand humanitarian agencies to plan and deliver inclusive humanitarian action.
In New Zealand, funded mental health institutions or psychiatric hospitals have been closed. Most mental health care and disability support is now provided in the community. The Ministry of Health does not keep a register of institutionalised persons. The Ministry administers the Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD), which is the national collection for mental health and addiction service outcomes and outcome data for mental health consumers information collection called. District health boards (DHBs) are funded to procure mental health services to meet the needs of their population. DHBs keep administrative records on the mental health patients in their care. International cooperation (art. 32) 30. Please provide information about the efforts surrounding and the impact on the disability-inclusive development policies and foreign aid programme, taken into consideration for the effective and comprehensive implementation of the Convention and Sustainable Development Goals. Reply to paragraph 30 MFAT The New Zealand Aid Programme: initiated a policy requiring all designs for structures we build that are funded by Official Development Assistance (e.g. buildings, pathways) to consider the access needs of people with disabilities. It is not mandatory for designs to allow universal access but reasons for not doing so must be stated and justified. New Zealand adopted the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Accessibility Design Guide to ensure that access is the default standard when planning, designing and constructing buildings and structures provided funds to disability aid projects including strengthening health and education services for people with disabilities, providing opportunities for economic well-being and improving disability-inclusive approaches to disaster risk reduction and management. To implement the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action in Pacific disaster preparedness and humanitarian response, we have: commissioned a gap analysis on the disability-inclusive humanitarian actions in the Pacific (December 2017) completed a disability survey to support the Government of Tonga’s response to Tropical Cyclone Gita (February 2018) a multi-year partnership with the Pacific Disability Forum and CBM New Zealand to build the capability of New Zealand humanitarian agencies to plan and deliver inclusive humanitarian action.