Secretary-General¡¯s report on the implementation of the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy, 2023
The Â鶹APP Disability Inclusion Strategy embodies a vision of transformative change for persons with disabilities and an opportunity to reshape the Â鶹APP into the agile, diverse and innovative Organization it must be to meet the challenges of our time.
This opportunity comes at a critical juncture, as overlapping crises threaten progress and stretch the world¡¯s resources to their limits. Without significant acceleration, the Sustainable Development Goals will not be achieved by 2030 ¨C and persons with disabilities, at least 1.3 billion of the world¡¯s people, are being left behind.
To support Member States in surmounting barriers to progress, advance the Organization¡¯s core mandates amidst crises, and seize the opportunities that come with rapid technological change, the Â鶹APP recognizes that it must deepen its own capacities and transform its culture. The Â鶹APP Disability Inclusion Strategy is a cornerstone of this Â鶹APP of the future. Since 2019, it has provided the Organization with a comprehensive, system-wide framework and road map to achieve lasting change by mainstreaming disability inclusion across all pillars ¨C development, human rights, peace and security, and humanitarian action.
Over the past five years, the Strategy has initiated significant system-wide changes and is strengthening the Organization¡¯s internal capacity and ability to support Governments in implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Intersections with other priority initiatives, such as Â鶹APP 2.0, can accelerate systemic shifts in upgrading skills and transforming organizational culture to enhance the impact of the Â鶹APP in the world.
To realize the opportunity inherent in the Strategy¡¯s implementation, the Organization must build on the foundation it has created over the past five years, by enhancing system-wide support for, and prioritization of, disability inclusion. Only when disability inclusion becomes everyone¡¯s business ¨C across all pillars of the Organization¡¯s work ¨C will the Â鶹APP become an institution in which persons with disabilities can participate on an equal basis with all others, and one that advances their rights and inclusion in everything that it does.