Co-ordinated by International Disability Alliance with the support of DPI, DRF, GPDD, HRW, IDDC and RI
Co-sponsored by UN DESA, Australia, Bulgaria, Mexico and New Zealand
Introduction
The Civil Society CRPD Forum (CSF) will be a full day event held on July 16th, the day prior to the Conference of States Parties (COP) to the CRPD.
The focus of this year’s CSF is the post-2015 agenda, as this has become the single most relevant advocacy goal for the disability community worldwide.
By the time the CSF will be held, it is likely that the outcome document of the High Level Meeting on Disability and Development (September 23) will already have been agreed. Participants will be able to be informed about this and about the plans for the actual High Level Meeting.
There has been a very widespread participation of DPOs in the different post-2015 related processes that have taken place over the last year: the almost 100 national consultations, the different global thematic consultations, the meetings of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the post-2015.
However, the big challenge of ensuring the full inclusion of persons with disabilities in the post-2015 process remains ahead and it is important that the CSF is used to take stock of what has been done, draw lessons from the process so far and also provide updated information on the key processes that will happen after September this year.
The CSF has been introduced and led by IDA and its members, while being very open and transparent to all other DPOs and NGOs committed to the implementation of the CRPD, as well as all other stakeholders committed to the rights of persons with disabilities.
The 2012 CSF which was focused on the High Level Meeting on Disability and Development (and therefore also very much on the post-2015 agenda), was a very participative CSF with a large number of DPO and NGO participants.
The 2013 CSF maintains the participatory nature of the CSF, but also includes a good number of speakers that should help DPOs and NGOs depart from New York with a clear picture on the advocacy work that we all need to do in the coming two years.
10:00-10:15 Opening by, Chair of IDA and H.E. Mr. Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of the Mission of the Republic of Kenya, Chair of the Bureau of the COP and Co-chair of the Open Ended Working Group on the SDGs
10:15-11:30 First session: Main conclusions from the post-2015 process so far. Have we been successful in mainstreaming disability rights in the negotiation process so far? Co-chaired by Catherine Naughton, Chair of IDDC, and H.E. Mr. Jim McLay, Permanent Representative of the Mission of New Zealand
Speakers include:
- Setareki S Macanawai, CEO of the Pacific Disability Forum
- Risna Utami, Indonesian Consortium for Disability Rights
- Amina Mohammed, the Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning, presenting the status and way forward on the post-2015 development agenda planning process
11:30-13:00 Second session: What do we know about next steps in the negotiation process and how can we influence these? Co-chaired by Shantha Rau-Barriga, Director of Disability Department (Human Rights Watch) and H.E. Mr. Stephan Tafrov, Permanent Representative of the Mission of Bulgaria
Speakers include:
- Chantal Line Carpentier, Sustainable Development Officer at UN DESA Secretariat supporting Major Groups
- Jeffrey Huffines, Rio+20 NGO Major Group Organizing Partner, CIVICUS UN Representative
- Richard Morgan, Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of UNICEF
- Corinne Woods, Director UN Millennium Campaign
13:30-14:45 Lunch break session: Presentations by DPOs from the South on successful mainstream and disability-specific initiatives funded by international co-operation, co-chaired by Javed Abidi, Chair of DPI and Diana Samarasan, Executive Director of DRF
Speakers include:
- Dr. Samuel Kabue, Executive Secretary of the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN)
- Senarath Attanayake, Attorney-at-Law/Provincial Councillor, Sri Lanka
- Henrietta Davis-Wray, Disabled People’s International
- Davud Rehimli, President of Union of Disabled People Organizations (UDPO) of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- Abia Akram, DPI Global Network
- Ambrose Murangira, CEO of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf (tbc)
- Sylvana Lakkis, Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union (LPHU)
- Mosharraf Hossain, Country Director of the ADD International, Bangladesh
- Clarisse Ndayiragije, Burundi
- Samantha French, People with Disability Australia (PWDA)
15:00-16:30 Third session: Refreshing our key demands for the post-2015 agenda, co-chaired by Anne Hawker, Immediate Past President of RI, and Mr. Peter Versegi, Minister Counsellor of the Mission of Australia
Speakers include:
- Olga Montufar Contreras, President of Fundacion Paso Paso and member of the steering committee of network of indigenous persons with disabilities
- Daniel Mont, independent expert, on disability disaggregated data and disability sensitive targets and indicators
- Jagannath Lamichhane, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)
- Facundo Chavez, disability focal point in OHCHR
16:30-17:45 Fourth session: How to ensure disability-inclusive post-2015 development, co-chaired by Maria Reina, Executive Director of GPDD, and H.E. Mr. Jorge Montaño Permanent Representative of the Mission of Mexico
Speakers include:
- Mohammed Ali Loutfy, World Bank Disability Safeguards Campaign Coordinator
- Dagnachew B Wakene, Post-2015 Development Agenda Campaign Asst.: Secretariat of the African Decade of PwDs (SADPD)
- Debra Jones, Director of UN Advocacy at Save the Children and active member of Beyond 2015
- Ingar Düring, Head of program “Inclusion of persons with disabilities”, Social Protection Section of Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
17:45-18:00 Closing session with Javed Abidi, Chairperson of Disabled People’s International, Colin Allen, Second Vice Chair of IDA, and Akiko Ito, UN DESA