IDDC Commitments at the Global Disability Summit 2025

For the third edition of the Global Disability Summit, the International Disability and Development Consortium submitted six commitments, including two joint commitments.

Commitment “Donor rules and regulations”

In an age of growing rhetoric towards localisation in a donor world increasingly dominated by large donor funds, we commit to the following:

• Advocating for donor rules and regulations to include time and financial resources needed to allow for meaningful participation of people with and without disabilities who are most marginalised in prioritisation and project planning processes and preserving this meaningful engagement across the project cycle;
• Advocating for donor rules and regulations which enable Organisations of People with Disabilities in low and middle income countries to access core funding;
• Advocating for greater flexibility in donor rules and regulations that thwart quick response in emergency situations, for example by pushing for all donor fund mechanisms to allow for project planning using crisis modifiers;

Advocacy efforts will be supported by the generation of new data: we commit to contributing to mapping existing practices among donors and documenting good practice case studies from development practice by 2027. Outcomes and recommendations will be widely disseminated in campaigns, side-events and any relevant fora. By 2030, a follow-up report will be designed to measure the evolution in donor rules and regulations. 

Commitment “OECD DAC disability marker”

By the end of 2030, on the OECD-DAC disability marker, IDDC commits to advocating:

• For DAC members not using the marker to adopt the marker, and for those using the marker to work to improve the quality of their reporting and set targets for the percentage of their Official Development Assistance which is marked as inclusive;
• For the OECD to introduce a purpose code that would track funding going to organisations representing persons with disabilities (in line with the purpose code to the gender marker).

Commitment “Universal Health Coverage and Inclusive Health”

Until the next GDS 2028, IDDC Inclusive Health Task Group commits to deepen our engagement with governments and other health stakeholders and to step up our partnership with organizations of persons with disabilities to make disability inclusion a priority within Universal Health Coverage, in all health system strengthening efforts, and across the continuum of care. We will:

• Work with the World Health Organization and IDDC members to contribute to establishing a strong and effective global platform on health equity for persons with disabilities to support collective and coordinated action towards disability inclusive health, with the participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations at its centre.
• Work with IDDC members organisations, organisations of persons with disabilities and mainstream health stakeholders to create new opportunities for persons with disabilities and their representative organisations to participate meaningfully in at least two mainstream health policy processes or events at global level and at national level in at least four countries.

Commitment “Meaningful participation of young people and children with disabilities”

To advocate to increase meaningful participation of young people and children with disabilities in decisions that affect them, through to the 2028 GDS we will: 

• Advocate for the inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in 3 or more global events. 
• Conduct 3 or more activities to listen to and share the views of children and youth with disabilities on matters related to the CRPD and SDGs. 
• Develop 3 or more learning documents or events to share resources and positive practices in participation of children with disabilities.

Joint commitment “Participation of children and youth with disabilities”

Together with Able Child, Liliane Foundation and SPOON, we commit to increase meaningful participation of young people and children with disabilities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies by:

1. Advocating with youth and children on meaningful participation in decision-making spaces; and
2. Advocating with youth and children on prioritization of the rights of children with disabilities in implementation of the CRPD and Sustainable Development Goals.

Joint commitment ” A Partnership to Champion Progress in Disability Inclusive Education”

Together with the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Norway, UNICEF, Education Cannot Wait, the Global Education Monitoring Report, the Global Partnership for Education and the International Disability Alliance, we reaffirm our commitment to championing disability-inclusive education to drive progress and accountability.

At a time when gains in inclusive education are at risk of reversal, we remain steadfast in our leadership and collective action to ensure children with disabilities are not left behind. We will continue to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and use our collective influence to protect and expand progress and ensure inclusive education remains a priority.

Now more than ever, we must act with urgency to keep disability-inclusive education at the forefront of the global agenda — because every child deserves the right to learn and thrive.