Launched by the UN Secretary-General in June 2019, the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) creates a foundational framework for achieving enduring and transformative disability inclusion throughout every area of UN engagement. The Strategy asserts that ensuring complete human rights for all persons with disabilities represents an inseparable and integral element of universal human rights and fundamental freedoms. Through UNDIS, the UN system gains critical capacity to assist Member States in realizing the 2030 Agenda with its Sustainable Development Goals, implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and fulfilling diverse development and humanitarian obligations. The UNDIS has an accountability framework that sets the objectives against which UN organizations will be held accountable at individual entity and country team levels. The UNCT Disability Inclusion Scorecard comprises 14 indicators within four core areas. Together they map out a comprehensive approach to disability inclusion for UNCT, encompassing both programming and internal operations.
The UNCT Scorecard is designed to assist UNCTs, first to plan their disability inclusion strategy, and second to report on how they are implementing it. The Scorecard is intended as both a planning tool and as an accountability tool. Each year UNCT is required to report progress updates to the New York Headquarters on each of the indicators through the Information Management System survey in UN Info.