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<b>To:</b> Setareki Macanawai <Setareki.Macanawai@pacificdisability.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Measuring disability equity – why the disability policy marker matters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=1bcfe42ae2&e=990e2708d4" target="_blank"><span style="color:#BF5000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">Measuring disability
equity – why the disability policy marker matters</span></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></h3>
<h4 align="center" style="text-align:center">By Conor Costello and Polly Meeks on Dec 14, 2023 06:00 am<o:p></o:p></h4>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">Galileo is famously quoted to have said, “Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">While far from perfect, the marker provides an important mechanism to support reporting, accountability and transparency around Australia’s development efforts on disability
equity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">CBM Australia
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<span style="color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">recently explored</span></a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">Figure 1: ODA providing “some level of assistance to disabled persons”, 2005-06 to 2021-22, in real terms</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">From <a href="https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=373312609e&e=990e2708d4">
<em><span style="font-family:Merriweather;color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">Re-establishing DFAT’s leadership on disability equity and rights</span></em></a>, page 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">Figure 2: Percentage of bilateral ODA reported as disability inclusive by DAC members in 2021</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">From <a href="https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=13ba4b4e54&e=990e2708d4">
<em><span style="font-family:Merriweather;color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">Re-establishing DFAT’s leadership on disability equity and rights</span></em></a>, page 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">In fact, as DFAT develops a strategy to guide disability equity programming over the coming 5-10 years, and given Australia’s recently
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<span style="color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">strengthened commitment</span></a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">In the short term, DFAT could take the following steps:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather">further improve the quality of data being reported against the marker, possibly drawing on good practices utilised in other contexts<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather">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
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<span style="color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">forthcoming online data portal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather">explore ways in which to improve the tracking of spending on the intersection of disability and other characteristics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather">build on efforts already underway to increase efficiency and cross-fertilisation between the marker and DFAT’s own reporting mechanisms.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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
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<span style="color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">a joint call</span></a> from the development sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">In the context of the new international development strategy’s emphasis on equity and rights, these options are well worth considering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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 <a href="https://devpolicy.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ac2f42002877850c37072a5e&id=63a49aa1a9&e=990e2708d4">
<span style="color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">important positive outcomes</span></a>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather">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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather">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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">Read more about the DAC disability marker and Australia’s engagement with it in
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<span style="color:#BF5000;text-decoration:none">CBM Australia’s briefing paper</span></a>.</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4><b>About the author/s</b><o:p></o:p></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">Conor Costello</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020"><br>
Conor Costello is Head of Policy and Advocacy at CBM Australia. She was previously Advocacy and Campaigns Manager at Oxfam Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">Polly Meeks</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020"><br>
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4><b>Disclosure</b><o:p></o:p></h4>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020">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.</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Merriweather;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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