AU Council of Ministers decision on the Plan of Action

OAU Council of Ministers, Seventy-sixth ordinary session Durban (28 June - 6 July 2002) Decision CM/DEC.676

DECISION ON THE PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE AFRICAN DECADE OF
DISABLED PERSONS

Council:

RECALLS Decision CM/Dec.535 (LXXII) proclaiming 1999-2009 as the African Decade of Disabled Persons;
EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN about the increasing number of people with disabilities in the Continent due to social and political crises;
RECOGNIZES the need to integrate people with disabilities in the society, empower them and involve them in the formulation and implementation of the social and economic development policies of the Continent;
ENDORSES the Plan of Action for the African Decade of People with Disabilities as adopted by the 25th Session of the Labour and Social Affairs Commission held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 16 ? 21 April 2002;
URGES Member States to allocate sufficient funds to all relevant Ministries dealing with people with disabilities to ensure effective implementation of disability programmes and to establish National Coordinating Committees (NCC)
to coordinate all disability issues and include people with disabilities in their national programmes;
CALLS UPON relevant United Nations Institutions as well as other partners to assist in the implementation of the Plan of Action;
CALLS UPON Member States to report to the OAU Secretariat through the African Rehabilitation Institute (ARI) on the implementation of the Plan of Action;
REQUESTS the Secretary General to submit progress reports to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government every two years.

March 2010

The Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities