Following the adoption of the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP launched a project to support member States’ capacity building to collect quality disability data for the Incheon Strategy indicators. Several capacity building activities were implemented under the project, including a series of national stakeholder consultations in 17 countries to review the national statistical systems from a disability perspective and devise national action plans. The High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Midpoint Review of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022 (Beijing, 27 November to 1 December 2017) took stock of the progress made over the first half of the Decade and adopted a new action-oriented road map for acceleration of the implementation of the Incheon Strategy.
Against this background, ESCAP convened a workshop to reflect on the achievements of the project over the past years and build a consensus among key stakeholders on the way forward in implementing the Incheon Strategy and Beijing Action Plan. The Workshop was intended to achieve the following objectives:
- To take stock of the project activities thus far implemented by reviewing progress, challenges and limitations in implementation of national action plans on operationalizing the Incheon Strategy indicators;
- To identify follow-up actions required to promote and accelerate the implementation of the national action plans on operationalizing the Incheon Strategy indicators; and
- To explore priority policy areas for ESCAP’s potential engagement and support, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the Incheon Strategy.
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