Mainstreaming Disability in the Development Agenda

Calls upon Member States and United Nations bodies and agencies to include disability issues and persons with disabilities in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and, in reviewing progress towards the achievement of the Goals, to assess the extent to which persons with disabilities have benefited from those efforts;

Encourages all Member States, concerned intergovernmental organizations, international and regional organizations, civil society, in particular organizations of persons with disabilities, and the private sector to engage in cooperative arrangements and strategic partnerships to facilitate technical cooperation to advance disability-inclusive development;

Encourages stakeholders at the regional and subregional levels to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in all forms of development cooperation, including South-South and triangular cooperation, in order to build collaborative frameworks for mainstreaming disability, including the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, at the national level;

Encourages Member States, the United Nations system, within its existing resources, and other stakeholders to improve data and statistics on disability, taking into account existing guidelines published by the United Nations, as a basis for strengthening evidence-based policymaking and to share good practices and experiences in order to overcome barriers and further advance disability-inclusive development;

Urges the United Nations to enhance partnerships for international cooperation between the United Nations system and regional and subregional organizations and to enhance its role in forging partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders, in particular with organizations of persons with disabilities and the private sector, to provide opportunities and forums, within existing resources, for promoting linkages between disability and the mainstream development agenda;

Calls upon the international community to seize every opportunity to include disability as a cross-cutting issue in the global development agenda, including in the setting up of the post-2015 United Nations development framework, in the dialogues and outcomes of relevant United Nations development conferences and in the quadrennial comprehensive policy review process, as appropriate;

Encourages the Special Rapporteur to collaborate, as appropriate, with all relevant stakeholders, including special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, in accordance with his or her mandate;

Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit to the Commission at its fifty-first session an annual report on his activities on mainstreaming disability in the development agenda;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report on the implementation of the present resolution for submission to the Commission at its fifty-first session, as a contribution to the upcoming High-level Meeting of the General Assembly.