Incheon strategy to 'make the right real' for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific
This document contains the ministerial declaration on the Asian and Pacific decade of persons with disabilities, 2013–2022, and the Incheon strategy to “make the right real” for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. The Incheon strategy provides the Asian and Pacific region, and the world, with the first set of regionally agreed disability-inclusive development goals. It comprises 10 goals, 27 targets and 62 indicators, including ensuring disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and management.
The Incheon strategy builds on the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and the Biwako millennium framework for action and Biwako plus five towards an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. It is intended to enable the Asian and Pacific region to track progress towards improving the quality of life, and the fulfilment of the rights, of the region’s 650 million persons with disabilities, most of whom live in poverty. The ESCAP secretariat is mandated to report every three years until the end of the decade in 2022, on progress in the implementation of the ministerial declaration and the Incheon strategy.