Recommendations

To address these findings, we suggest that short, medium, and long-term recommendations be drawn up. These would include measures such as providing mandatory accessibility training, revamping UN platforms to comply with WCAG standards, establishing an empathy lab, and creating a network program for accessibility champions within UN agencies. Additionally, we suggest allocating budgets for ICT accessibility and enhancing knowledge sharing across agencies.

Some OMT members considered disability inclusion as ‘addition’ when it was presented to the group outside of bigger planning phases. To ensure it is a priority issue for the UNCT, RCO made presentations during the OMT Retreat 2023 clarifying relevant Disability Inclusion related indicators and recommended common services for BOS and OMT work planning.