Brief background
To address the lack of data on persons with disabilities, UN Indonesia supports data gathering, monitoring and evaluation, including learning and knowledge management under the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principles.
In 2020, UN Indonesia formulated a strategy aimed at supporting the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). Within this strategy, a specific focus was placed on disability.
UN Indonesia is currently collaborating with the national statistical office to enhance disability-related data collection. The process utilises the Washington Group method and leverages big data, along with a participatory approach involving OPDs. The initiative aims to enhance the availability of data for monitoring and evaluating UN programs operating under the UNSDCF.
However, it became apparent during 2021 annual reporting that UNSDCF output and sub-output levels did not adequately address persons with disabilities. This gap can be attributed, in part, to the lack of monitoring data concerning the benefits and impacts of program interventions on individuals with disabilities.
To effectively realize the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy, it is essential for UN personnel at all levels to have a comprehensive understanding of disability inclusion and the ability to apply it to their work. To support the M&E Group in their role of mainstreaming disability inclusion in M&E processes, the UN in Indonesia developed and implemented a training program on disability-inclusive M&E. This program targeted M&E focal points and program staff, complementing broader training on Results Based Management (RBM).
Results: the six training modules
Module 1: Various approaches to disability and the need for disability inclusion in UN activity
The learning outcomes make it possible for participants to:
- Discuss the evolving concept of disability through various approaches (charity/medical and human rights)
- Understand the CRPD
- Define and discuss concepts in the UN’s Disability Inclusion Strategy (2019)
Module 2: Implementation of the UNCT Accountability Scorecard on Disability Inclusion
As outcomes, at the end of this module, participants can:
- Describe the four core areas of the Accountability Scorecard on Disability Inclusion (ASDI)
- Identify gaps within the ASDI in light of CRPD definitions and principles
- Review the experience (lessons and challenges) of implementing the ASDI
Module 3: Understanding UNDIS framework to translate disability inclusion at the policy level, programmatic, and operational levels to program ToC
The module outcomes allow participants to:
- Apply the UNDIS Framework, particularly the UNCT ASDI to determine appropriate policy, programming and operations within their agencies
- Engage with local contextual dynamics as demonstrated in UNSDCF: Indonesia (2021 -2025)
Module 4: Mainstreaming M&E system with UNSDCF 20221-2025 implementation
As an outcome the participants learn:
- How to incorporate disability inclusion within the M&E processes
- How disability inclusive M&E is reflected in the UNSDCF 2021-2025
Module 5: Managing for results and data collection strategy
By the end of this module, participants have:
- Discussed the importance of Data in the UN’s contemporary work
- Appreciated the importance of a Human Rights-based Approach to Data (HRBAD) to Disability Inclusive field work and M&E
- Discussed applying HRBAD within quantitative and qualitative data collection processes
- Mainstreamed disability inclusion in quantitative and qualitative research methods
Module 6: Developing annual reports on UNSDCF implementation
At the end of this module the following has been discussed:
- The value of UN Reports in perceptual, academic and policy realities
- Integrating Disability Inclusion Principles (UNDIS/CRPD) into the new UN Country Results Report Guidelines