Committees

FCDO and disability-inclusive development

Inquiry

Report and Government response published

This inquiry considered consider the adequacy and effectiveness of the FCDO’s disability and inclusion rights strategy, launched in February 2022, including the consequences for disability-inclusive programmes of the decision to cut aid spending from 0.7% to 0.5% of GNI.

Stakeholders noted that Organisations of Persons with Disabilities are consulted arbitrarily and without obligation, making it all too common that policy decisions affecting people with disabilities are made without their direct input. Disability inclusion hasn’t been sufficiently integrated even into the FCDO’s own policy-making procedures, while the Disability Inclusion and Rights Strategy receives little to no mention across other departmental strategies. Disability inclusion does not appear to be at the forefront of Government thinking.

Beyond “routine” programming, the Committee also heard that Government does not pay enough attention to the needs of people with disabilities in its planning for humanitarian responses, or in climate adaptation. Despite the increasing impact of climate change and the constant and growing threat of conflict, the FCDO’s approach risks persons with disabilities being overlooked at times of crisis.

Read the Report: FCDO and disability-inclusive development 

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:30pm on 4 September 2023.

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Past events

Tuesday 23 January 2024
2:15pm Public
Oral evidence session 23 January 2024
FCDO and disability-inclusive development - Oral evidence
2:15pm
  • Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell (Minister for Development & Africa at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
UK Small Island Developing States Strategy - Oral evidence
3:00pm
  • Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell (Minister for Development & Africa at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Tuesday 17 October 2023
2:30pm Public
FCDO and disability-inclusive development - Oral evidence 17 October 2023
2:30pm
  • Iryna Tekuchova (Researcher at Fight for Right)
  • Anna Landre (Global Research and Response Lead at Disaster Strategies)
  • Ophia Bwanali (Lower Limb Prosthetic Technologist at Leonard Cheshire Zimbabwe)
3:00pm
  • Sunday Isiyaku (Country Director for Nigeria and Ghana at Sightsavers)
  • Kevin Sudi (Kenya Country Team Programme Manager at CBM)
  • Ms Lauren Watters (Director of Delivery and Impact at Able Child Africa)
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

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  • Email: indcom@parliament.uk
  • Address: International Development Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA