Summary of Iraq national report on Sustainable Development Goals & the CRPD
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This report was prepared by a team composed of disabilities experts, academics, representatives of disabilities organizations and other concerned organizations, and volunteers with disabilities. A common methodology was developed with friendly organizations and associations operating in the Kurdistan Region, in accordance with the UN Convention and sustainable development goals, as follows
1- Forming a steering committee consist of the Iraqi gathering of Iraqi Disabled Organizations (IGDO) and other relevant organizations
2- Reviewing national legislations, laws, regulations and strategies related directly and indirectly to the rights of persons with disabilities and their compatibility with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
3- Making sure that the report addresses all types of disabilities and covers all services, activities and areas without exception.
4- Making all the required efforts to insure that monitoring process includes positive and negative records concerning rights realization and sustainability.
5- Conducting a field survey of all activities of organizations of persons with disabilities.
6- Identifying gaps related to the rights of persons with disabilities.
7- Organizing a number of focus groups for different types of disabilities.
8- Providing the database of (IGDO) with data and information on persons with disabilities.
9- Conducting field visits to institutions and centers working in the area of disabilities.
10 - Making Interviews with experts, activists, representatives of governmental and international institutions and civil society organizations working in the field of disabilities in Iraq.
Research was carried out into progress in relation to eight of the SDGs (1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 16 and 17)