Strengthening the role of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) to advance disability rights in Vietnam

The strategic focus of the proposal is to strengthen the capacities and role of DPOs in the advocacy, development, implementation and monitoring of legal frameworks and policies, to help ensure that the current momentum around ratification of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) actually results in the empowerment of people with disabilities and enables them to claim their rights.

The proposal will support the mainstreaming of participation of DPOs in ratification, developing implementation legislation and policies, monitoring and reporting on disability rights. It will ensure that the process of ratification and implementation of CRPD results in a rights-based legal and policy framework which can be used to support the realization of disability rights, in particular through the empowerment of DPOs to play a strong and continuing role in policy advocacy, monitoring and claiming their rights.  This will set the stage for follow-on programming, firmly based in the current One UN Plan, to build the capacity of all actors in this framework to realize disability rights.