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Ways forward for a disability inclusive Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Key disability messages from the 2015 MDG Report
The UN Secretary-General launched the 2015 MDG report on 6 July 2015. The Report includes important messages on the world’s over one billion of persons living with disabilities. As Member States are expected to define the next set of development goals – the SDGs – these messages contribute to highlight the gaps that must be addressed in the ongoing global endeavour to advance an inclusive, equitable and sustainable development, leaving no one behind, for the next 15 years. The 2015 MDG Report highlights how high-quality data disaggregated by disability are key to monitor progress and making decisions and monitoring progress.
The situation regarding the Goal 2 (on the Achievement of Universal Primary Education) offers an important lesson: country studies indicate that children with disabilities are more often out of school than their peers without disabilities. To achieve universal education, interventions will have to be tailored to reach those at the bottom of the economic and social ladders and to meet the specific needs of children— including children living with disabilities. Good practices do exist in many countries to attend to this challenge, for instance in India, but even there more than one third of children and adolescents aged 6 to 13 who live with disabilities are out of school. Yet the country has made remarkable efforts to make education more inclusive, such as through the Right to Education Act and allocation of funding for school infrastructure and teacher training. Despite enormous progress during the past 15 years, achieving universal primary education will require renewed attention in the post-2015 era, and investing in the quality of education and ensuring a sustainable source of funding are also essential.
Given that the MDG’s will be concluded at the end of 2015, the international community, Governments, civil society and other partners, have been actively working in the United Nations to carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. The emerging post-2015 development agenda, including the set of Sustainable Development Goals, strives to reflect the lessons learnt from the MDGs, build on their successes and work towards a more prosperous, sustainable and equitable world. Giving due consideration to disability issues and needs and engaging persons with disabilities in the post-2015 sustainable development goals will be needed to leave no one behind.
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