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28. Encourages the Statistical Commission, within existing resources, to
update guidelines for the collection and analysis of data on persons with disabilities,
taking into consideration relevant recommendations of the Washington Group on
Disability Statistics, and also encourages the United Nations system, including the
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, within the scope of her
mandate, to strengthen coherence and coordination across the United Nations system
in order to promote the availability of internationally comparable data on the situation
of persons with disabilities and to regularly include relevant dat a on disability or
relevant qualitative facts, as appropriate, in relevant United Nations publications in
the field of economic and social development;
29. Encourages Member States to take appropriate steps to expedite the
mainstreaming of data on disability into official statistics, including by collecting data
disaggregated by sex, age and disability status using appropriate measurement tools,
including, as appropriate, the United Nations Children’s Fund Module on Child
Functioning and the tools produced by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics,
by examining underlying concepts, purposes and advantages of existing relevant data collection tools and instruments and urging all relevant stakeholders to work with the
United Nations to provide urgently needed baseline data for monitoring progress in
the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals for persons with
disabilities, to strengthen national capacities in that regard and to enhance capacity building support for developing countries, including the least developed countries and
small island developing States;
30. Takes note of the multi-stakeholder panel discussion entitled “Towards
inclusive, resilient and sustainable development: an evidence -based approach to the
mainstreaming of disability in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the
2030 Agenda”, held on 31 January 2018 during the fifty-sixth session of the
Commission for Social Development, and recognizes the importance of undertaking
similar discussions and related initiatives in the future and the continued inclusion of
persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the meetings of the
Commission;
31. Decides to change the title of sub-item (b) of the item entitled “Social
development” on the agenda of the General Assembly to read: “Social development,
including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, persons
with disabilities and the family”;
32. Requests the Secretary-General, in coordination with all relevant United
Nations entities, to submit information to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth
session on the implementation of the present resolution and of the outcome document
of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the
Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals
for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disability-inclusive development
agenda towards 2015 and beyond,12 and to make appropriate recommendations to
further strengthen implementation;
33. Welcomes the launch by the Secretary-General of the 2018 United Nations
flagship report on disability and development on the International Day of Persons
with Disabilities in 2018, and, recognizing that high -quality, timely, accessible,
reliable and disaggregated data are critical to measuring progress and ensuring that
no one is left behind, requests that data collection and analysis continue , with a view
to informing policymaking, and decides to discuss, at its seventy-fifth session, how
best to present these data and findings, including through a flagship report;
34. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the relevant
offices in the United Nations system, including the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of
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