The Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD) organized an Expert meeting on “Indicators for Monitoring Inclusive MDG implementation” in Maputo, Mozambique on March 4th, 2010. This meeting was planned in response to a request from government officials in Mozambique for technical assistance to find new indicators to measure disability inclusion/mainstreaming, particularly in services related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the MDGs in general.

The expert meeting brought together individuals with experience in the development of indicators, measurements, and data collection in the fields of disability and development (including representatives from Mozambique’s National Statistics Division, the World Bank, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics, and the United Nations Statistics Division), to brainstorm about possible strategies for the government in strengthening their data gathering practices and activities, discuss how current practices and efforts in MDG monitoring could be adapted for Mozambique, and serve as a knowledge resource for the Mozambican officials in developing their monitoring plans.

• Agenda [ 52KB]

Presentations

• Disability and MDGs [ 614KB]
  by Arne H. Eide, Chief Scientist, SINTEF
  
• PARPA II: Indicadores de Monitoria e Avaliaçã: Componente Deficiência (English/Portuguese) [ 104KB]
  by Olimpio Zavale, National Institute of Statistics (INE), Mozambique
• Measuring Disability in Censuses and Household Surveys [ 945KB]
  Monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the work of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics [ 307KB]
  by Mitchell Loeb, National Center for Health Statistics, USA for the Washington Group on Disability Statistics
• Monitoring achievement of the MDGs among the disabled: current initiatives and remaining challenges [ 694KB]
  by Maria Martinho, United Nations Statistics Division, DESA, New York

Resources

• World Bank, HDN SP, Disability and Development: Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Disability and Development [ 32KB]
  by Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD)
• Disability issues as incorporated in the Mozambique PRSP (PARPA II): Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (2006-2009) [ 61KB]
• PARPA and Disability Indicators List [ 38KB]

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