January 2015

TECHNICAL MEETING

Inclusive Social protection for persons with disabilities

Organised by the International Labour Office and International Disability Alliance

ILO headquarters, Geneva, 22-23 January 2015

 

AGENDA

Thursday 22nd January

Setting the scene

09.30-10.45     Overview of key issues around social protection and persons with disabilities: is there a positive momentum for disability-inclusive social protection globally?

Facilitator: Stefan Trömel

Key questions:

  1. The global policy agenda on social protection: Where do we stand today? (Christina Behrendt, ILO)
  2. Human rights, CRPD, DPOs and social protection – is there a positive momentum for disability inclusion and social protection? (Alexandre Cote, IDA)
  3. Viewpoints of multilateral and bilateral organizations (DFAT, DFID, GIZ, World Bank

11.15- 12.45    Better data for inclusive social protection for persons with disabilities

Facilitator: Alexandre Cote

Presentation of recent research and studies:

  1. Inclusiveness of mainstream schemes (Matthew Walsham LSHTM)
  2. Cost of disability for individuals and households (Jill Hanass Hancock, HEARD)
  3. Disaggregation of LSMS and over relevant household surveys (Daniel Mont UCL LCD)

 

Towards a comprehensive and inclusive social protection system for persons with disabilities

14.00-15.30     Access of persons with disabilities to mainstream social protection schemes (non-contributory)

Facilitator: Esther Sommer, GIZ

Introduction: Abner Manlapaz, Philippine coalition on the UN CRPD

Key questions:

  1. How to ensure access of persons with disabilities and adequate coverage in schemes that explicitly include persons with disabilities as one of their target groups?
  2. How to ensure access of persons with disabilities and adequate coverage in schemes that do not specifically target persons with disabilities but from which persons with disabilities should benefit on an equal basis with others?
  3. How to establish/strengthen links with other support schemes such as other social protection schemes, social health protection and support services, as well as with programmes aiming at disability inclusion in employment?

15.50-17.30    Disability specific schemes: design and adequacy 

Facilitator: Stefan Trömel, ILO

Introduction: Daniel Mont, UCL

Key questions:

  1. To what extent do schemes/programmes take into account the objective of independent living and social participation? Do they recognize and support people’s capabilities if given the right opportunities?
  2. How to address the diversity of needs for support while at the same time limiting the complexity of schemes?
  3. How to ensure coordination between non-contributory and contributory disability specific schemes; and effective linkages between cash benefits, benefits in kind and access to services? Which mechanisms are in place to support beneficiaries’ engagement in employment without creating negative disincentives?

 

Friday 23rd January

Recurrent operational challenges 

09.00-10.30     Eligibility determination

Facilitator and introduction: Alexandre Cote, IDA

Presentation of recent research and studies

Disability assessment & international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF)  (Alarcos Cieza (WHO), Nenad Kostanjsek (WHO), Aleksandra Posarac (World Bank))

Key questions:

  1. What are the role, potentials and drawbacks of the disability status definition (disability card)?
  2. What are the key issues in eligibility determination, including individual assessments and means tests, of persons with disabilities in social protection schemes?
  3. How can governments best use the information collected during the eligibility determination process to understand better support needs and plan adequate policy responses?

10.50-12.30     Costing and financing

Facilitator: Timo Voipio, Finland

Presentation of recent research and studies:

Presentation on ILO costing approaches (Andrés Acuña Ulate, ILO)

Key questions:

  1. What are the key issues and way forward with regard to the costing of disability specific schemes as well as of the additional costs of making mainstream schemes disability inclusive?
  2. What are the key issues for a cost-benefit analysis of disability benefit schemes and the inclusion of persons with disabilities? What about impact assessments (ex ante and ex post)?
  3. What are the key issues in financing social protection for persons with disabilities? How to address the affordability and fiscal sustainability issues raised by some stakeholders?

13.45-14.45     Rationale for advocacy with regard to disability related social protection reforms in low and middle-income countries

Facilitator: Facundo Chavez, OHCHR

Introduction: Alexandre Cote, IDA

Key questions:

  1. What are the key arguments that allow the development of social protection schemes for persons with disabilities? Are those in line with the CRPD shift of paradigm?
  2. What are the issues that DPOs and the disability movement are facing with regards to advocacy for social protection internally and externally?

 

The way forward

14h45-15h45   Group work on identifying way forward with regards to research, technical resources, capacity building and advocacy in different areas tackled in the meeting

15.45-17.00     Group feedback and planning for future cooperation

  1. Summary by the workshop rapporteurs (Ola Abu Alghaib, Daniel Mont)
  2. Results of group work on the way forward
  3. Discussion on the way forward
  4. Workshop conclusions

TECHNICAL MEETING

Inclusive Social protection for persons with disabilities

Organised by

International Labour Office and International Disability Alliance

ILO headquarter, Geneva

22-23 January 2015

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

 

Abu Alghaib, Ola

University of East Anglia

Acuña Ulate, Andrés

ILO

Araya, Jorge

CRPD

Behrendt, Christina

ILO

Bernard, Hervé

Handicap International; IDDC

Bertmann, Isabella

GIZ, Germany

Carbonez, Francois

Licht für die Welt

Chavez, Facundo

OHCHR

Cieza, Alarcos

WHO

Cote, Alexandre

IDA

Devandas, Catalina

Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities

Giarratano, Simona

European Disability Forum (EDF)

Hanass-Hancock, Jill

Kwazulu Natal University, South Africa / HEARD

Hossein, Mosharraf

ADD

Kindness, Heather

DFID, UK

Kostanjsek, Nenad

WHO

Kuper, Hannah

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Loryman, Hannah

DFID, UK

Manlapaz, Abner

Philippines coalition on CRPD

McClain, Charlotte

World Bank

Menze, Jürgen

ILO

Mont, Daniel

University College London (UCL-LCD)

Ottavio, Benedetta

ILO

Posarac, Aleksandra (per VC)

World Bank

Relandeau, Audrey

Handicap International

Rivas, Minerva

ILO

Schremmer, Jens

International Social Security Association

Sepulveda, Magdalena

UNRISD

Sommer, Esther

GIZ, Germany

Tanhchareun, Tom

Australia DFAT

Theemann, Yvonne

FES / Global Coalition on social protection floors

Thornberry James

SENSE International

Tripodi, Stefania

OHCHR

Trömel, Stefan

ILO

Voipio, Timo

Finland MOFA

Walsham, Matthew

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

The summary report of the technical meeting is available here.

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