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UNDP has been in Nigeria since the country became independent in 1960 providing capacity building and policy development support to the Federal Government of Nigeria in areas of Governance & Peace Building, Inclusive growth and Sustainable Development. UNDP continues to support, the government in the preparation of the second National Implementation P...
Background
The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy provides the foundation for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all pillars of the work of the United Nations. The Strategy includes a system-wide policy, an accountability framework, and other implementation modalities. The policy establishes the highest levels of commitment and a vision for the United Nations system on disability inclusion for the next decade and is aimed at creating an institutional framework for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, among other international human rights instruments, as well as for development and humanitarian commitments. The policy embodies the United Nations vision for disability inclusion and is a reaffirmation of a common commitment at the highest levels of the Organization. It sets out the areas and functions on which the United Nations will focus to achieve disability inclusion. Through the Strategy, the organizations of the United Nations system reaffirm that the full and complete realization of the human rights of all persons with disabilities is an inalienable, integral, and indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Rationale:
Each country is expected to implement the UNDIS through a combination of mainstreaming and targeted measures as the key approach for achieving the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities and their human rights. The UNCT Accountability Scorecard on Disability Inclusion indicator four on Set-up and Coordination calls for the establishment of an inter-agency disability inclusion coordination mechanism which UNCT Nigeria established in 2021 with UNESCO leading the group. The coordination mechanism served as the key mechanism for joint UN action, advocacy, and coordination on disability inclusion. One of the key objectives of the coordination mechanism is to facilitate the sharing of information and learnings and coordinate awareness-raising events and training on disability inclusion. However, findings from a quick survey conducted among UN staff showed that 45% have no knowledge of the UNDIS strategy and how to mainstream it into both programmes, operations and through all pillars of UN work. Also, 100% are desirous to learn more about the strategy and how to implement it. The Disability TWG seek and received seed funding from the DCO TWG to implement activities which include capacity development for UN staff to improve UN Nigeria rating on the indicator on capacity building on UNCT Accountability Scorecard on Disability Inclusion.
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