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Making Development Inclusive is a project financed by Directorate-General Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid (DG DEVCO), a new DG incorporating the former Development and EuropeAid DGs. This project is a sequel to "Disability mainstreaming in Development Co-operation".
With the aim of breaking the recurring poverty-disability-poverty cycle, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was passed in May 2008 as the result of global campaigning for the rights and opportunities of persons with disabilities.
Article 32 of the Convention states inter alia, that international cooperation, including international development programmes, should be inclusive of, and accessible to, persons with disabilities. With its signature by the European Union and its ratification by EU Member States, there is a greatly increased need for specialist information about the implementation and monitoring of Article 32.
The objective of this 'Making Development Inclusive' project is to improve mainstreaming of disability in international development activities conducted by European State and Non-State Actors in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Under this project, IDDC will build up its capacity to advocate successfully at the EU level and will develop materials and resources to assist practitioners and policy-makers in making inclusive international development a reality. IDDC will be strengthened as a hub for the provision of expertise on mainstreaming disability in development to national and international state and Non-State Actors. The project will enable IDDC to increase its promotion of consistent understanding and implementation of the CRPD with a range of target groups across Member States.
The project runs from 1 January 2010 until 31 December 2012.
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