Response Action Plan Responsible area and timeframe Recommendation 2 DFAT should continue Australian leadership for disability-inclusive development including through: Supporting innovative work in areas of key need Agree. DFAT agrees that Australia’s leadership on DFAT will continue supporting DPO capacity building and global capacity DPD (DIS), HPD, and disability-inclusive development should continue to building on disability data. Development Posts support areas of key need where Australia has a ongoing comparative advantage. These currently include As part of the process for developing the new Development for All advocacy, DPO capacity building and supporting global DPD (DIS) by July strategy, DFAT will begin discussions, including by consulting with the capacity on disability data. 2018 Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network and PDF and through the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, to identify key global and regional needs that could be supported. This process will assist with identifying innovative ways of working and areas of key need. Working to identify what disability inclusion looks like in practice, including in humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction Agree. DFAT agrees that its global advocacy efforts DFAT will develop and disseminate to external partners, including through DPD (DIS) initially by need to move beyond promoting disability-inclusion to the GLAD Network, good practice examples to support advocacy on July 2018 then helping to demonstrate how, in practice, to deliver disability inclusion. ongoing disability inclusive development and humanitarian action. DFAT will continue to provide staff with guidance on what ‘good practice’ DPD (DIS) inclusion of people with disabilities looks like in advocacy efforts, aid initially by June 2018 programming, public diplomacy, humanitarian responses and disaster risk then ongoing reduction. This guidance will support the inclusion of people with disabilities in program design, monitoring and evaluation, policy dialogue, advocacy and partnership development. MPD, MDD, DPD, DFAT will increasingly include in future partnership agreements an HPD expectation that development and humanitarian partners identify, document and share examples of good disability inclusion practice. ongoing HPD, DPD (DIS) and UN Geneva 2017-20
Response Action Plan Responsible area and timeframe Recommendation 2 DFAT should continue Australian leadership for disability-inclusive development including through: Supporting innovative work in areas of key need Agree. DFAT agrees that Australia’s leadership on disability-inclusive development should continue to support areas of key need where Australia has a comparative advantage. These currently include advocacy, DPO capacity building and supporting global capacity on disability data. DFAT will continue supporting DPO capacity building and global capacity building on disability data. As part of the process for developing the new Development for All strategy, DFAT will begin discussions, including by consulting with the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network and PDF and through the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, to identify key global and regional needs that could be supported. This process will assist with identifying innovative ways of working and areas of key need. DPD (DIS), HPD, and Development Posts ongoing DPD (DIS) by July 2018 Working to identify what disability inclusion looks like in practice, including in humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction Agree. DFAT agrees that its global advocacy efforts need to move beyond promoting disability-inclusion to helping to demonstrate how, in practice, to deliver disability inclusive development and humanitarian action. DFAT will develop and disseminate to external partners, including through the GLAD Network, good practice examples to support advocacy on disability inclusion. DFAT will continue to provide staff with guidance on what ‘good practice’ inclusion of people with disabilities looks like in advocacy efforts, aid programming, public diplomacy, humanitarian responses and disaster risk reduction. This guidance will support the inclusion of people with disabilities in program design, monitoring and evaluation, policy dialogue, advocacy and partnership development. DFAT will increasingly include in future partnership agreements an expectation that development and humanitarian partners identify, document and share examples of good disability inclusion practice. DPD (DIS) initially by July 2018 then ongoing DPD (DIS) initially by June 2018 then ongoing MPD, MDD, DPD, HPD ongoing HPD, DPD (DIS) and UN Geneva 2017-20
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