Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (PAD)

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2018

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Six years after the entry into force of the Inter-American Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, the member states of the OAS adopted the Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (PAD), during the thirty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly held in Panama in June 2007 [AG/RES. 2339 (XXXVII-O/07)].

The PAD is a mobilizing instrument for public policies and a commitment of a political nature applicable to all OAS Member States, which presents a set of objectives and concrete actions divided into 15 thematic axes that serve as a guide for Member States to achieve progress. substantive in the construction of inclusive societies. These areas are:

Awareness of society
Health
Rehabilitation and Habilitation
Education
Work and employment
Accessibility
Citizen, political and social participation
Participation in cultural, artistic, sports and recreational activities
Development, well-being and social inclusion
Exercise of legal capacity
Personal autonomy and independent living
Access to justice
Emergency, catastrophe and disaster situations
Life free of violence
International cooperation

On June 5, 2018, the OAS General Assembly adopted Resolution AG/RES. 2928 (XLVIII-O/18) by which it resolved to approve the Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (PAD) for a new decade, 2016-2026, and to entrust the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (CEDDIS) the formation of a working group of mixed composition, made up of its members and experts from civil society organizations of and for persons with disabilities and other actors in order to accompany the monitoring that CEDDIS carries out on the hemispheric implementation of said Action Program. This is the “Monitoring Group for the implementation of the Action Program for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2016-2026)” or “Mixed Group”, made up of nine members who act personal title as independent experts.

Members of the Joint Group for Hemispheric Follow-up of the Action Program

Representatives of CEDDIS

Name	Country	Job position
Clarivel Castillo	Guatemala	President of the Board of Directors, National Council for the Care of People with Disabilities (CONADI).
Zulma Ferreira	Paraguay	Director of Decentralization of the National Secretariat for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, SENADIS.
Third member		Pending appointment

Representatives of Civil Society

Name	Job position
Gabriela Martínez	Director of the Associative Movement of the Mexican Confederation of Organizations in favor of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (CONFE).
Dean Lermen	Secretary of Human Rights of the Latin American Union of the Blind (ULAC), period 2016 – 2020.
Juan Angel De Gouveia	President of the Latin American Network of Non-governmental Organizations of People with Disabilities and their Families (RIADIS). President of the Deaf Confederation of Venezuela (CONSORVEN).

Social actors

Name	Job position
Olga Montufar	President Paso a Paso Foundation A.C (Mexico). Co-President of the Global Network and Focal Point of Latin America and the Caribbean for Indigenous People with Disabilities of the UNPFII. Coordinator of the Network of Indigenous Women with Disabilities ALC.
Ericka Álvarez Ramírez	President of the Latin American Alliance of Women with Disabilities.
Cristina Francisco	Regional Consultant on Human Rights and Disability

Contributions to the Joint Group for Hemispheric Follow-up of the Action Program

Information to make contributions to the Joint Group for hemispheric follow-up of the Program of Action

Objectives

Serve as a forum to analyze and monitor the hemispheric progress recorded in the implementation of the PAD.
Propose cooperation mechanisms between the OAS Member States to facilitate the achievement of the commitment acquired by the OAS Member States to consolidate, by the year 2026, substantive progress in the construction of an inclusive, supportive society, accessible to all and based in the recognition of the full and equal enjoyment and exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms of people with disabilities, eliminating prejudices, stereotypes and social stigmas.

Activities

Propose an operating regulation and reform it, ad referendum of the CEDDIS.
Adopt your biannual action plan and work schedule.
Accompany CEDDIS in the process of defining goals and indicators for the evaluation of the PAD.
Identify barriers, challenges and/or legislative gaps for the implementation of the PAD, through mapping of regulatory frameworks and/or public policies among other means.
Issue recommendations for legislative harmonization.
Prepare regional thematic reports.
Co-participate with CEDDIS in exchange meetings with other mechanisms for monitoring regulatory frameworks of the Inter-American or universal human rights system, to promote knowledge and implementation of the PAD.
Support the actions that can be carried out from the CEDDIS for the identification of autonomous and external financing sources, which allow obtaining additional contributions to the voluntary fund of specific contributions created by the General Assembly of the OAS.

Beneficiary Countries