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Implementation of the Incheon Strategy Goal

Aiko Akiyama
UNESCAP

Good afternoon, everybody, my name is Aiko Akiyama. I'm a disability focal point on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP.

I understand that to promote disability inclusive disaster risk reduction (DiDRR), we need a lot of ammunitions, so to speak. And I believe we have a very powerful ammunition in this region, Asia-Pacific, the Incheon Strategy to "Make the Right Real" for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. So today, I aim at introducing the Incheon Strategy as relevant to the topic of the seminar, and the synergies between Incheon Strategy and other important global documents.

As many of you might know, in Asia and the Pacific, we have approximately 650 million persons with disabilities, comprising two thirds of persons with disabilities in the world. Also Asia Pacific is the most disaster-prone region. To cite you a little bit of statistics, between 2005 and 2014, Asia-Pacific reported at least 1,625 major disaster events, and that more than 500,000 people lost their lives.

The Incheon Strategy was agreed upon by our member States in 2012 to expedite the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and to promote disability-inclusive development.

The Incheon Strategy has a structure very similar to the past Millennium Development Goals and the present Sustainable Development Goals. It has 10 interrelated development goals and 27 targets followed by 62 indicators. The Incheon Strategy has what we call SMART approach. It has specific, measurable, actionable and time bound indicators. This document is valid for the period from 2013 to 2022.

What is significant about this Strategy from a perspective of the seminar today is that it has one goal focusing on disability inclusive disaster risk reduction: goal 7. It has two very simple targets to promote disability inclusive disaster risk reduction planning and its implementation. We'd like our Governments to really implement these targets. But how do we know that they are achieving the targets? So we devised six indicators.

Indicator 1, we would like to know whether each Government in our region has a disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction action plan or not. And if yes, what kind of plan they have?

Indicator 2, we would like to know if each Government provides training for service personnel on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction. What do we mean by service personnel? It could be police officers or firefighters or medical professionals who will be needed to respond to the disasters but also to prepare for eventual disasters.

Indicator 3, we would like to know if each Government has an accessible shelters. But we'd also like to know what percentage of existing shelters is really accessible for persons with different disabilities?

Indicator 4, we'd like to have disaster statistics disaggregated by disability status so that, for example, we can know how many persons with disabilities die as a result of a particular disaster or how many people became disabled as a result of a disaster.

Indicator 5, we would like to know whether a psychosocial support for persons with disabilities are available after they get affected by any particular disaster.

And the last, but not least, indicator 6, we'd like to know whether each Government has assistive devices and technology available to prepare for any potential disaster and to respond to a disaster. These are the indicators that Governments in our region can work on, so that they can actually help us to understand the extent of the implementation ofdisability inclusive disaster risk reduction.

By the way, I kept on saying "our region" and "our Governments." Our region, Asia Pacific, consists of the 62 member States covering countries from the western side like Iran and Turkey, and we can go to the southern islands in the Pacific and to the east, Japan, and to the north, Russia. So we live in a vast region. And then we're asking each of these Governments to come up with data for the indicators. So when are these Governments in our region expected to submit the data?

Actually by next year. Next year, in 2017, ESCAP conducts the midpoint review of the Asian Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, to measure the extent of the implementation of the Incheon Strategy.

To prepare for the review, this year in October, we are going to distribute questionnaire to Governments in our region. And then they are supposed to submit the data, including the data for the indicators on disability inclusive disaster risk reduction by February next year.

Time is clicking. So this year, what are we going to do? First, we develop the content of the questionnaire asking data for the indicators and also asking the institutional set up for disability-inclusive development, and policy background. Draft questionnaire will be also shared by our partner CSOs and Governments to receive their feedback.

In addition to this mid point process, ESCAP will develop an interactive e-learning tool on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction so that member States and other stakeholders can learn why it's so important to do this and how to do it.

This tool should be made accessible, and we hope to launch it on 5 November 2016, International Tsunami Awareness Day.

We would like to continue to seek cooperation from our working partners who are present at the seminar today.

At a global level, we have the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals to support the cause of DiDRR.

In Asia and the Pacific, we also have the Incheon Strategy. Implementing the Incheon Strategy strengthens the implementation of the Sendai Framework and the SDGs. So I really wish that people take advantage of that existence of the unique instrument in this region. I understand that there is a strategic thinking coming out of this seminar to mainstream a disability perspective into the process of Quito and also Indonesia. So please utilize this Incheon Strategy process. And, of course, please engage in it.

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Thank you very much.