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Recommendation 4

4 Accepted

Include UN Convention definition of disability in future delivery plan and Strategy updates.

Recommendation
The Department should include in future iterations of the delivery plan, and any update to the Disability Inclusion and Rights Strategy, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities definition of disability, to ensure that stakeholders are clear on who the Department is targeting development spending towards, and why. (Paragraph 25) Mainstreaming
Government response summary AI-generated
The government agrees and commits to explicitly referencing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities definition of disability in all future iterations of its strategy and delivery plan.
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Government Response Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract Accepted
We will ensure the definition is referenced explicitly in any future iterations of the strategy and delivery plan.
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