Promising Practices in Mainstreaming Disability in Development: Case Finland Ronald Wiman

1. Promising Practices in Mainstreaming Disability in Development:Case FinlandRonald Wiman Presentation name / Author

2. Government Disability Policy Programme & A Plan of Action • The Government Report on Disability Policy (2007) and the CRPD are guiding the work on the national plan of action on disability, “Government Disability Policy Programme” (2010) and its implementation • It assigns responsibilities for disability policy to all sectors/ministries to ensure the materialization of the rights of PWD in their mandated areas of action (sector responsibility) – including Ministry for Foreign Affairs: • General policy on external relations • Development cooperation policy

3. Disability - Specific development cooperation (ODA) Activities • Of the bilateral Finnish Official Development Assistance (ODA) 2.5.% goes for disability-specific activities • Channeled mainly through NGOs/DPOs (75%) • Disability projects by NGOs/DPOs require only 7.5% own funding (others 15%) • Goverment Audit Unit evaluation (2007): Disability-specific activities are not ”mainstreaming” UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

4. Finnish ”3-track” Disability and Development Strategy (2008) Disability, is one of the cross-cuttingissues/objectives (Gender and social equality, rights of vulnerablegroups, HIV/AIDS) thatmustbeintegrated in alldevelopment action through the followingstepsthatcomplementeachother: 1. Mainstreamdisability in allsectors and accommodatepeoplewithdisabilities on the basis of the Human Rights BasedApproach and 2. Complementuniversalprovisionswithtargeted, additionalsupport and services to equalizeaccess and opportunities for peoplewithdisabilities – and to empowerthem and 3. Includedisability in policydialogue, country negotiations and multilateralcooperationand informationdissemination UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

5. Good practices in implementation (1) Disability Coordination Group at the Min. for Foreign Affairs, Human Rights Unit • Min. for Foreign Affairs • Min for Social Affairs and Health • Main DPOs • Special Representative of the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Disabilty and tolerance • Other experts • Also at the Institute for Health and Welfare there is a Coordination Group for mainstreaming the implementation of the Gov. Plan of Action UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

6. (2) Guidelines:Simple step by step procedures • 1) Minimum requirements for all activities: • No direct or indirect discrimination • No increase in health or accident risks • 2) Checking for disability relevance • 3) Checking for information adequacy • 4) Assessing impacts on pwds • 5) Adjusting the plan according to the level of disability relevance • 6) References to more specific tools http://formin.finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?nodeid=43739&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI UN CSocD 2011 –Ronald.wiman@thl.fi

7. (3) Examples of Mainstreaming Investments • Long history: support to the UN in 1990s resulted in the ”Manual on Inclusive Planning” (1997, 2000, 2003) • Support to the Word Bank to include disability aspects to PRSP and sector work e.g. Trust Fund for Socially and Ecologically Sustainable Development TFESSD (Norway & Finland) • Sector-specific mainstreaming: inclusive education initiatives (e.g Ethiopia, South Africa, the Balkans) • EFA (Education for All) flagship for inclusive education (secretariat at the Univ. of Jyväskylä, Finland) • Support to the UN Special Rapporteur on Disability UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

8. (4) Partnerships • DPO Umbrella FIDIDA contracted as the partner organization for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs • ABILIS –foundation contracted as manager of small grants programme • Global Partnership for Disability and Develoment (GPDD), funded first by Italy, Finland, Norway and the World Bank, and also been supported by contributions by India, Germany and Italian Fondatsioni (private sector) UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

9. GPDD- a Platform for Dialogue and Collaboration The Vision: GPDD as Network of various stakeholder networks. To be owned by the Global South, facilitated by the North South South GPDD& networks North

10. (4) Innovative practices ”SIGNMARK ” (Mr. Marko Vuoriheimo) A RAP –artist who is Deaf Nominated as Minister’s Special Representative on Rights of People with Disabities JoinsForeignMinister Mr. Alexander Stubb on someMissions E.g. MDG-summit 2010, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kazakhstan Purposes Awarenessrising Encouragement to youngPeopleWithDisabilities UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

11. Mainstreaming Challenges • Relevance of disability in poverty context still not understood everywhere • Not much demand by partner country governments • Remains ”NGO business” – not a main stream business • Mainstreaming needs ”ownership” – ”everyboldy’s business is often nobody’s business” • Needs investing in core funding for facilitating global ”public goods” for mainstreaming e.g. GPDD • Private sector enhagement needed UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

12. Lessons learned • Raising awareness through innovative ways rather than by preaching to the converted • Forming multistakehoder working groups • Making use of the logic and command chain of the ”Bureaucracy”: Design policy->Make the decision->Include in the result matrix -> report -> evaluate -> correct policies and practices • Designing binding, but simple, guidelines + tools on web • Budgeting: also better social quality has a price tag • Nurturing evaluation culture, learning by doing • Learning from others (e.g. UNIFEM, UN-Women) • E.g. Finnish Gov. First Report on Gender Equality Mainstreaming (2010) • Sharing experiences e.g. through UN-DESA UN-CSocD 2011 - Ronald.wiman@thll.fi

13. Thank you! Contact details Ronald Wiman Development Manager And External Senior Advisor on Social Development to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) P.O. Box 30 FIN-00271 Helsinki, Finland Tel: +358 206107174 Mobile: +358 405564812 Email: ronald.wiman(at)thl.fi Presentation name / Author