7. GOALS

7.1. Overall objectives

The long-term objective for Sida should be that disability aspects are taken into account and integrated into relevant development cooperation planning and that development cooperation thereby contributes to realising the rights laid down in the Standard Rules and in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

7.2 Short-term objectives

In the short-term perspective, goals and measures must be adapted to Sida's capacity and to the existing operations and planning processes.

At the end of 2001, Sida will:

1) as part of its cooperation with two or three countries, have analysed in broad perspective and taken into account the rights of persons with disabilities. This will be done both in the overall analysis and dialogue and in the preparation of development work within the disability field and within priority sectors;

2) have monitored that girls and boys with disabilities are not discriminated in Sida's education and health work;

3) have taken into account girls and boys with disabilities in conjunction with preparation of new agreements within the education and health sectors;

4) have integrated disability components in conjunction with the preparation and extension of sub-projects within the education sector concerning teacher training, curriculum development, teaching aids, education sector reforms and policy development;

5) have integrated disability components in conjunction with the preparation and extension of sub-projects within the health sector concerning district and primary health care, health sector reforms and policy development;

6) have paid attention to disability aspects in conjunction with the preparation and extension of projects within other fields such as statistics development, human rights, urban planning and humanitarian assistance;

7) in those countries where support to persons with disabilities is provided within one or more sectors, have worked for a national coordination of these and other disability activities in the same country;

8) have developed methods to integrate information about the situation of persons with disabilities in country analyses and strategies and in DESO's work with the development of methods to combat poverty;

9) have worked internationally - primarily within WHO, UNESCO and UNICEF - to ensure that disability issues are paid attention and taken into account in development and assistance planning;

10) have contributed to global normative method development work within the disability field, in particular within the areas mentioned above (Section 6); and

11) have enhanced the knowledge of Sida's personnel on how disability aspects can be taken into account in development cooperation work.