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Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities
Data are essential in global partnerships for sustainable development to ensure no one is left behind to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. High-quality, timely, reliable, and available disability data are needed to understand the real situation of persons with disabilities, to identify gaps that are not addressed through policies, and to provide examples of success. Thus, the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities will convene a side event to examine the importance of disability data in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2030 Agenda.
The event will examine the importance of data for the rights of persons with disabilities in the interlinked Goals under review, with a particular focus on climate change. Strengthening means of implementation should include measuring whether persons with disabilities are being reached by partnerships for sustainable development. Data are required to measure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of the 2030 Agenda, in line with paragraphs 48 and 57, and Goal 17.18. The disability movement is investing energy toward advocacy around data and climate change, including the use of citizen-generated data to complement official statistics to measure the SDGs and to include those most left behind. The HLPF 2022 is the perfect time to take a closer look at how these two agendas interact, complement one another, and can be mutually supportive for a more inclusive society.
Register here for the side-event
