Achieving health equity for all in global development
Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark and International Development and Disability Consortium host this international conference in Denmark to identify actions to increase health equity for persons with disabilities as a prerequisite to ensuring inclusion of persons with disabilities in global development and humanitarian actions.
Description
Good health and well-being are important to enable every person to build a good and meaningful life. The world is still far from realizing health rights for the 16 % of the global population, who has a disability.
Persons with disabilities continue to die earlier, have poorer health and experience more limitations in their everyday life than others. They face unfair conditions in all facets of life. Addressing health inequities benefits everyone.
The conference focuses on identifying actions to increase health equity for persons with disabilities as a prerequisite for ensuring inclusion of persons with disabilities in global development and humanitarian actions.
The conference takes a dive into the WHO Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities as a point of departure for addressing health inequities for persons with disabilities as a precondition for other development aims.
Break-out sessions looking to identify entry points to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities within focus areas such as how to include persons with disabilities in interventions addressing gender inequalities such as in gender based violence, sexual and reproductive health rights; how to ensure and protect the health of persons with disabilities in humanitarian actions and nexus interventions; and how to limit the disproportional serious consequences of climate change for persons with disabilities.
WHO report
Find the WHO report on health equity for persons with disabilities here
Overall Programme
| Programme | |
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Arrival and registration, coffee and tea |
| 10.00 – 10.30
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Welcome, by: – Sif Holst, Vice Chair, Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark – Dominic Haslam, Chair, International Disability and Development Consortium Setting the scene: Why health equity matters in development and humanitarian programmes, by: |
| 10.30 – 11.30 | The WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities, presented by: – Darryl Barrett, Technical Lead, Disability Inclusion Team, WHO Find the report here The WHO European Framework for action to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for persons with disabilities and its relevance in the context of emergencies, presented by: Q&A |
| 11.30 – 11.40 | Reflections on the report:
Kirstine Primdal Sutton, Chief Advisor and Head of Partnership Team, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark |
| 11.40 – 12.10 | Comfort break, coffee and tea |
| 12.10 – 13.10 | Panel debate: Achieving health equity and the SDG’s through an intersectional lens: Panel: – Beth Nasiforo Mukarwega, Chair, National Union of Disabilities’ Organisations of Rwanda – Darryl Barrett, Technical Lead, Disability Inclusion Team, WHO – Marie My Warborg Larsen, Head of Section, Migration, Stabilization and Fragility, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Verity McGivern, Regional Representative for Europe, HelpAge – Mette Müller Kristensen, Director, Global Focus |
| 13.10 – 14.10 | Lunch |
| 14.10 – 15.25 | Break-out sessions: Challenges and entry points to promote disability inclusion and health equity in development and humanitarian programmes: o Health and disability inclusion in the humanitarian-development nexus o SRHR and GBV: ensuring a gender and disability inclusion perspective o Climate change, health and disability inclusion |
| 15.25 – 15.55 | Comfort break, coffee and tea |
| 15.55 – 16.30 | Plenary sharing and synergies from break-out sessions |
| 16.30 – 16.50 | Final remarks: How do we move ahead?, by – Rita Kusi Kyeremaa, Executive Director, Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations, – Alessandra Aresu and Andrea Pregel, Co-chairs, IDDC Inclusive Health Task Group, and – Vladimir Cuk, Executive Director, International Disability Alliance |
| 16.50 – 17.00 | Wrap up and closing remarks, by: – Dominic Haslam, Chair, International Disability and Development Consortium – Sif Holst, Vice Chair, Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark |
Place and directions
The House of Disability Organisations is an accessible office building situated in Hoeje Taastrup 5 minutes walk from the Hoeje Taastrup train station. There is a large parking lot right in front of the building with level-free access to the building and conference room.
Registration
Click here to register to the event
Conference hosts
The conference is hosted by DPOD and IDDC and held in connection with the IDDC general assembly.
Picture credits: Mike Kollöffel