[PDFlist] FW: Measuring disability equity – why the disability policy marker matters

[Casper Joseph Fa'asala]

Bula Seta,

New Year greetings to you too and staff of PDF.

Thank you for the information on the Measuring Disability Equity Report.

Would like to make a courtesy call on you next week between Monday and
Wednesday.

Kind regards

Casper J. Fa'asala
Chief Executive Officer
People with Disabilities Solomon Islands

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> *Subject:* Measuring disability equity – why the disability policy marker
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> Measuring disability equity – why the disability policy marker matters
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>   By Conor Costello and Polly Meeks on Dec 14, 2023 06:00 am
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> Galileo is famously quoted to have said, “Measure what can be measured,
> and make measurable what cannot be measured.”
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> In a move that would presumably have pleased Galileo, in 2018 the OECD’s
> Development Assistance Committee (DAC) established a policy marker – a tag
> that can be attached to aid activities when related financial flows are
> reported to the OECD by donors – on the inclusion and empowerment of
> persons with disabilities. The marker provides a mechanism for monitoring
> and reporting project-level data on the degree to which DAC members’
> development assistance has disability inclusion objectives.
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> While far from perfect, the marker provides an important mechanism to
> support reporting, accountability and transparency around Australia’s
> development efforts on disability equity.
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> CBM Australia recently explored
> <https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=0dd5318638&e=990e2708d4>
> Australia’s performance against the marker, how it adds value to our
> existing reporting system, and the opportunities at hand to extend use of
> the marker as part of the forthcoming international disability equity and
> rights strategy.
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> How does Australia perform? In 2021, 18% of Australia’s bilateral official
> development assistance (ODA) was identified as disability inclusive – that
> is, having a marker score of 1, significant objective, or 2, principal
> objective. However, out of a total of 569 reported disability inclusion
> projects, only 12 had disability inclusion as their principal aim.
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> When looking at DFAT’s own expenditure tracking tools, it’s worth noting
> that the practice of providing an annual estimate of the amount of ODA that
> “provides some level of assistance to disabled persons” is both
> longstanding and methodologically advanced by comparison with the efforts
> of other development actors. Notwithstanding this, the percentage of
> Australia’s overall development assistance within this category remains low
> – at 2.5% in 2021-22 – and the value of that assistance has reduced
> dramatically over the last decade, down almost 40% from its peak in 2010-11
> (Figure 1).
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> *Figure 1: ODA providing “some level of assistance to disabled persons”,
> 2005-06 to 2021-22, in real terms*
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> From *Re-establishing DFAT’s leadership on disability equity and rights*
> <https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=373312609e&e=990e2708d4>,
> page 8.
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> On the question of added value, we found that the marker complements
> Australia’s own expenditure tracking in ways that are relevant and
> desirable in the context of our commitment to international disability
> equity. Importantly, the marker allows for international comparisons to be
> made (Figure 2). While caution must be exercised in making these
> comparisons, the marker gives a valuable indication of DAC members’
> ambitions on disability inclusion at the point of investment. In addition,
> the DAC’s marker-based data is available in more granular detail than
> DFAT’s, providing transparency that is critical for the accountability work
> of development stakeholders, including organisations of people with
> disabilities.
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> *Figure 2: Percentage of bilateral ODA reported as disability inclusive by
> DAC members in 2021*
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> From *Re-establishing DFAT’s leadership on disability equity and rights*
> <https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=13ba4b4e54&e=990e2708d4>,
> page 7.
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> In fact, as DFAT develops a strategy to guide disability equity
> programming over the coming 5-10 years, and given Australia’s recently strengthened
> commitment
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> to deepening accountability and enhancing transparency across the
> development program, there are a number of important opportunities to
> harness the marker in support of development objectives. There exist both
> immediate opportunities and more ambitious and innovative opportunities.
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> In the short term, DFAT could take the following steps:
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>    - further improve the quality of data being reported against the
>    marker, possibly drawing on good practices utilised in other contexts
>    - increase the visibility of reporting against the marker, which could
>    be done by fully integrating the marker, along with DFAT’s existing
>    reporting tools, into resources such as the forthcoming online data
>    portal
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>    - explore ways in which to improve the tracking of spending on the
>    intersection of disability and other characteristics
>    - build on efforts already underway to increase efficiency and
>    cross-fertilisation between the marker and DFAT’s own reporting mechanisms.
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> At the same time, of course, we would also hope to see the government
> increase the volume of funding with disability equity as an objective, as
> outlined in a joint call
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> from the development sector.
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> Beyond the above steps, we identified a small number of more ambitious and
> innovative opportunities DFAT might take in relation to the marker. These
> include developing tools to inquire into the extent to which programs work
> within existing inequalities or seek more disruptive, transformative
> change; and exploring ways to have more precise estimates of the level of
> spending contributing directly to disability equity, for example through
> tagging at the individual item level.
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> In the context of the new international development strategy’s emphasis on
> equity and rights, these options are well worth considering.
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> One of Australia’s major strengths as a development actor is our
> intentional approach to advocacy and leadership in international forums. It
> is undoubtedly true that Australia’s leadership on disability inclusive
> development has led to important positive outcomes
> <https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=63a49aa1a9&e=990e2708d4>,
> including increasing the capacity of and space for organisations of people
> with disabilities, and supporting the development and utilisation of tools
> to collect disability inclusive data.
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> DFAT has an opportunity to extend this important work to the DAC marker by
> playing a strong and proactive advocacy role in the following areas:
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>    - expanding utilisation of the marker by making it mandatory, as is
>    the case for most other policy markers, and encouraging multilateral
>    organisations to report against the marker
>    - strengthening the design of the disability marker itself, for
>    example by introducing a minimum requirement that all projects “do no
>    harm”, as for the gender equality marker.
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> As it develops the new disability equity and rights strategy, DFAT must
> grapple with how to ensure development efforts respond to the needs and
> priorities of people with disabilities, and support them to have the agency
> that is an essential element of equity.
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> The DAC disability marker is an important tool supporting delivery on
> Australia’s commitments, driving collective global effort, and enabling
> people with disabilities and their representative organisations to hold the
> government accountable for delivery against those commitments.
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> *Read more about the DAC disability marker and Australia’s engagement with
> it in CBM Australia’s briefing paper
> <https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=c3c0e73cb7&e=990e2708d4>.*
> *About the author/s*
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> *Conor Costello*
> Conor Costello is Head of Policy and Advocacy at CBM Australia. She was
> previously Advocacy and Campaigns Manager at Oxfam Australia.
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> *Polly Meeks*
> Polly Meeks is an independent researcher with 16 years of experience in
> public finance, including projects for civil society organisations,
> multilateral agencies, research institutes and government/parliamentary
> bodies.
> *Disclosure*
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> *CBM Australia receives grants under the Australian NGO Cooperation
> Program. CBM’s Inclusion Advisory Group has also been DFAT’s technical
> partner on disability inclusion since 2010 under partnership agreements.*
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