DPOs and CRPD monitoring
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CRPD Shadow Report
Therese Sands
Executive Director, Leadership Team
People with Disability Australia
13 August 2010
Project Group
People with Disability Australia
Queensland Advocacy Incorporated
Disability Discrimination Legal Centre NSW
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Disability Advocacy Network Australia
Australian Disability Rights Network
Disability Studies and Research Centre
Methodology
Time and resource constraints - one year and no funding:
- pro bono support from DLA Phillips Fox
- fund seeking (FaHCSIA provided funding for consultations; application
pending with Attorney Generals for NGO delegation to UN)
Limited knowledge of CRPD and human rights reporting
processes within DPOs, disability advocacy organisations:
- provide information about CRPD (background materials)
- opportunity to apply CRPD (workbook based on resource Human Rights
Indicators)
Methodology
Ownership by people with disability:
- consultation in each capital city (DPOs, advocacy organisations,
disability legal services)
- consultation with First People’s Disability Network Australia
- Online survey for individuals with disability
Draft Shadow Report
- draft reviewed by Project Group (now till 27 August)
Finalise Shadow Report and seek endorsement (early September)
Submit Shadow Report to UN CRPD Committee (late September)
NGO Delegation to UN for review process (Feb / Oct 2011)
Advocacy & Collaboration
www.disabilityrightsnow.org.au
Shadow report & Concluding Observations:
Evidence-based advocacy tools (media / submissions / training /
report card comparison / complaints)
Planning tools – prioritise key issues for organisational focus,
advocacy and ‘test case’ complaints
Resources – guidance on key issues; and guidance on how
issues are framed in terms of human rights.
Advocacy & Collaboration
Next Steps
CRPD Monitoring & Implementation (requires capacity building):
Data collection and analysis - use CRPD to reframe / capture data
in terms of human rights not service compliance (consistency
across agencies and jurisdictions).
Case studies – capturing human rights stories in line with CRPD
CRPD analysis - budget processes; election platforms; funding
allocations (using Shadow report; Concluding Observations)
Making complaints under CRPD to Australian Human Rights
Commission / UN CRPD Committee