Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities
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12. Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming the rights, participation,
perspectives and needs of persons with disabilities into disaster risk reduction and
response, recognizes the need for their inclusion in and contribution to disaster
preparedness, emergency response, recovery and the transition from re lief to
development, as well as the implementation of policies and programmes that are
inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities, and also recognizes the
disproportionate impact of disasters on women and girls with disabilities;
13. Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and relevant
stakeholders to strengthen ongoing efforts and coordination in the humanitarian,
disaster and development spheres towards disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction
and humanitarian action so as to strengthen resilience, better mitigate risks and
support pathways towards recovery and development, including during humanitarian
emergencies, for persons with disabilities, and to establish partnerships and networks
in the disaster risk reduction and humanitarian domains;
14. Urges Member States to ensure that persons with disabilities and their
families, including women and girls, have access to a range of support services,
information in accessible formats and education, including on how to prevent,
recognize and report instances of exploitation, violence and abuse, as well as how to
ensure that persons with disabilities, in particular children, have a safe and supportive
family environment;
15. Encourages the mobilization of resources on a sustainable basis to
mainstream disability, including the rights of persons with disabilities, in to
development at all levels, and in this regard underlines the need to promote and
strengthen international cooperation, including North-South, South-South and
triangular cooperation, in support of national efforts, including, as appropriate,
through the establishment of national mechanisms, in particular in developing
countries;
16. Encourages Member States, United Nations organizations and
mechanisms, including the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the
rights of persons with disabilities, the Special Envoy of the Secretary -General on
Disability and Accessibility and the regional commissions, to make all efforts to
engage with and ensure accessibility for the full and effective participation and
inclusion of persons with disabilities, in cooperation with organizations of persons
with disabilities and, as appropriate, national human rights institutions, in
development processes and decision-making at the local, national, regional and
international levels;
17. Encourages the Commission for Social Development, within its mandate,
to continue to provide its relevant input regarding persons with disabilities to the
Economic and Social Council and to the high-level political forum on sustainable
development, as appropriate, in order to support the relevant discussions on persons
with disabilities in the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
18. Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to adopt a national
disability strategy that can be operationalized, including through measurable and
appropriate targets and indicators, and that assigns responsibility to and incorporates
the views of a broad range of stakeholders, including persons with disabilities and
their representative organizations;
19. Calls upon Member States, relevant regional organizations and United
Nations bodies and agencies to take into account the rights, participation, perspectives
and needs of persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others in ensuring that
all development policies and programmes, including those regarding poverty
eradication, discrimination and the elimination of all forms of violence and abuse for
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