Make the Right Real – Persons with Disabilities in Asia / Pacific

Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific

650 Million persons with disabilities live in Asia and the Pacific

• Aims to accelerate disability-inclusive development and CRPD ratification and implementation
• Derived from 20 years of experience: Asian and Pacific Decades of Disabled Persons: 1993–2002 and 2003–2012
• Key feature: time-bound and measurable Incheon goals and targets
• Based on CRPD principles
• Time-frame for achieving goals: Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013 to 2022
• For a disability inclusive Asia-Pacific, partnerships must be forged:
  • Multi-sectoral
  • Multi-stakeholder
  • Multi-level

Incheon goals and targets

1. The Incheon Strategy is composed of 10 interrelated goals, 27 targets and 62 indicators.
2. The time frame for achieving the goals and targets is the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013 to 2022.
3. Goals describe the desired end results. Targets are aimed to be achieved within a given time frame. Indicators measure progress towards the targets and verify that the targets have been achieved. There are two types of indicators: core indicators and supplementary indicators. All indicators should be disaggregated by sex wherever possible.

10 Goals to “ Make the Right Real ”

1. Reduce poverty and enhance work and employment prospects
2. Promote participation in political processes and in decision-making
3. Enhance access to the physical environment, public transportation, knowledge, information and communication
4. Strengthen social protection
5. Expand early intervention and education of children with disabilities
6. Ensure gender equality and women’s empowerment
7. Ensure disability inclusive disaster risk reduction and management
8. Improve the reliability and comparability of disability data
9. Accelerate the ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and harmonization of national legislation with the Convention
10. Advance subregional, regional and interregional cooperation

As we launch the new Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013–2022, let us focus on addressing the remaining challenges. By adopting—and implementing—the Incheon Strategy, you can help to ensure a disability inclusive post-2015 development agenda
– Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General,  United Nations

Publications :Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations

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