Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Strengthening the Mainstreaming of Disability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

E/RES/2015/4View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19b Social development, published in 2015.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2016

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2016	E/CN.5/2017/4	Mainstreaming disability in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report of the Secretary-General		E/RES/2015/4

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Disability Human Rights Persons with Disabilities

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Expresses appreciation for the work of the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development in the completion of his mandate, and takes note of his report¹² and the expiry of the mandate;

¹²See E/CN.5/2015/5.

Welcomes the appointment by the Human Rights Council of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities,Error: Reference source not found and invites her to closely cooperate with the Commission for Social Development according to the development component of the mandate, including by making concrete recommendations on how to contribute to the realization of internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities, how to promote development that is inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities and how to promote their role as both agents for and beneficiaries of development;

Decides to hold, at the fifty-fourth session of the Commission for Social Development, a multi-stakeholder panel discussion, entitled “Implementation of the post-2015 development agenda in the light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, in order to further elaborate on how the existing mechanisms and entities within the United Nations system can contribute to strengthening the mainstreaming of disability issues, to enhance awareness and cooperation at all levels on the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda and to consider the possibility and modalities of another monitoring mechanism;

Calls upon Member States, relevant regional organizations and United Nations bodies and agencies to ensure that all development policies and programmes, including those regarding poverty eradication, social protection, full and productive employment and decent work, and appropriate measures for financial inclusion as well as urban planning, accessible community and housing development, take into account the needs, rights and potentials of and benefit to all persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others;

Encourages Member States, relevant regional organizations and United Nations bodies and agencies to achieve the full application and implementation of the international normative framework on disability and development by encouraging the ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesError: Reference source not found and by considering the ratification of the Optional Protocol thereto,¹³ as both human rights and development instruments;

¹³United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2518, No. 44910.

Emphasizes the need for measures to ensure that persons with disabilities, in particular women, children, youth, indigenous peoples and older persons, are not subject to multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination or excluded from participation on an equal basis with others in the implementation of international development goals;

Decides to continue to give due consideration to the issue of disability and development, including within the framework of United Nations operational activities, in accordance with relevant mandates, in order to enhance awareness and cooperation at all levels, including the participation, where appropriate, of United Nations agencies, multilateral development banks and institutions and other relevant stakeholders, while ensuring coordination and avoiding any possible overlapping;

Urges Member States, the United Nations agencies and bodies, development agencies and international organizations, and encourages the private sector, to regard accessibility as both a means and a goal of inclusive and sustainable development, and therefore an essential investment that benefits all members of society, and, hence, to ensure that accessibility is an integral part of programmes and projects relating to the built environment, transportation and information and communications technologies;

Encourages the mobilization of resources on a sustainable basis to mainstream disability in development at all levels, and in this regard underlines the need to promote and strengthen international cooperation, including South-South and triangular cooperation, in support of national efforts, including, as appropriate, through the establishment of national mechanisms, in particular in developing countries;

Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and all relevant stakeholders to improve disability data collection, analysis and monitoring for development policy planning, implementation and evaluation, fully taking regional contexts into account, and to share, where appropriate, relevant data and statistics with relevant agencies and bodies within the United Nations system, including the Statistical Commission, through appropriate mechanisms, and underlines the need for internationally comparable data and statistics disaggregated by sex and age, including information on disability;

Underlines the importance of closely consulting with and actively involving persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the development and implementation of the emerging post-2015 development agenda;

Encourages Governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to continue to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission for Social Development, at its fifty-fifth session, a report on the implementation of the present resolution, integrating the Chair’s summary of the discussions and the proposals made during the multi-stakeholder panel discussion held during the fifty-fourth session.

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