We give our members the chance to speak with one voice about the things we all believe in

Task Groups are made up by IDDC members
that work together to talk about their ideas and experiences.

They decide together which strategies and activities
they want to use.

Currently, IDDC has 10 Task Groups:

• Child Rights Task Group

This Task Group wants to make sure that children with disabilities can enjoy their rights.

Children with disabilities have the right to live a happy life and to be treated well.

But very often their rights are not respected by others.

• Climate Action Task Group

This Task Group works on making sure that people with disabilities are included in discussions about climate change.

Climate change means that the world is getting warmer

because people are doing things like using oil, gas and coal for their homes, factories and transport.

The world getting warmer means that people all over the world experience

more weather that causes emergencies like big storms and flooding.

When emergencies happen it can be difficult to get help, food might be more difficult to buy.

Climate change affects all people, including people with disabilities.

• Community-Based Inclusive Development Task Group

This Task Group works on making use of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Agenda 2030
using the Community-Based Inclusive Development approach.

This approach wants to create equal opportunities and inclusion
for all people with disabilities in their community.

• European Union Task Group

This Task Group works together with people
who make decisions and laws
in the European Union.

The European Union is a group of 27 countries in Europe.

They agreed to work together and help each other.

The European Union funds many projects outside of Europe

that are important for people with disabilities.

The European Union also makes laws

that are important for inclusive development and humanitarian action.

IDDC wants to make sure that the European Union includes

people with disabilities in its laws and projects.

• Inclusive Education Task Group

All children with disabilities have the right to study and learn new things.

In reality, many children with disabilities
cannot go to school for several reasons.

This Task Group wants to make sure
that children with disabilities in developing countries
can go to school.

• Inclusive Health Task Group

In developing countries, many people with disabilities
don’t have health care because they don’t have
the money to pay for it.

This Task Group wants to promote
an inclusive healthcare
for people with disabilities.

• Inclusive Safeguarding Task Group

People with disabilities are sometimes treated badly.

Which is bad.

People with disabilities don’t always know how to defend themselves

because they are discriminated, isolated or don’t have support.

This Task Group creates mechanisms to make sure people with disabilities are treated well.

• Livelihood Task Group

Livelihood means the way people earn money
or get what they need to live, like food, shelter, and clothes.

It could be from a job, farming, running a business,
or other ways people make a living.

It is how someone supports themselves and their family.

People with disabilities have the right
to work and earn money to live their life as they want.

But very often people with disabilities have problems
to find a good job and earn money.

This Task Group shares experiences in making workplaces
more inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities.

• Organisations of Persons with Disabilities Partnership Task Group

OPDs  are organisations or groups that are led by persons with disabilities.

They represent persons with disabilities and they work for disability rights.

Most of their members should be persons with disabilities.

The OPD Partnership Task Group wants to make sure that
OPDs can take part in international cooperation work.

• United Nations Task Group

The United Nations is an international organisation.
It works for peace and security everywhere in the world.
We call it the UN for short.
193 countries are part of the United Nations.
They meet to discuss important issues for the world.

For instance, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This Convention is a big document that explains
What are the rights of persons with disabilities?
Many countries signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
and agreed to make the lives of people with disabilities better.

The United Nations also agreed to make the world better.
They set up 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
They want to achieve these goals before the year 2030.
All together, these goals form the Agenda 2030.

Working with the United Nations is very important
if we want to see inclusive development and humanitarian action
all around the world.

The United Nations Task Group wants to make sure
that countries will put the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
and Agenda 2030 into practice.