Overview

This module introduces the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD requires a shift from traditional ways of looking at disability as individual impairment to a focus on State obligations to creating enabling environments that promote inclusiveness and accommodate all human beings in their diversity.

The overview provides information on the objectives, the target audience, the module content, learning outcomes and the module map.

Module objectives

  • To introduce the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
  • To consider how disability is conceptualize in the CRPD and its approach to inclusive development and protecting the human rights of persons with disabilities.

Who is this module for?

This module is relevant to all stakeholders, especially those interested in disability, including persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, NGOs, UN Agencies, Governments, law enforcement, human rights institutions, development agencies, researchers, universities, international organizations and donors. Moreover, it is for all policy makers who are in charge of identifying and addressing through policy and programming the challenges that persons with disabilities encounter.

What is this module about?

The content of this module:

  • Provides a background on the situation of persons with disabilities in relation to human rights and development;
  • Explores how the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) considers disability;
  • Explains the evolution of approaches to addressing disability, from charity and medical models to social and human rights models;
  • Reviews the CRPD, including its purpose, structure, and key concepts;
  • Includes learning exercises to accompany the material; and
  • Lists useful resources for additional reference.

Learning objectives

On completion of this module, participants will have:

  1. Enhanced knowledge and greater awareness of disability.
  2. A better understanding of the CRPD.
  3. Contextualized the CRPD as a human rights instrument.
  4. Identified key concepts of the CRPD in context.

 

Module Map

A module map with 5 steps. It starts with step 1 overview, then step 2 technical contents that has 6 stages. It continues with stage 2A background, then stage 2B defining disability, then stage 2C approaches to understanding and addressing disability, then stage 2D convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and addressing disability, then stage 2E prohibiting disability discrimination and ensuring equality of persons of disabilities, then stage 2F monitoring and implementation and ensuring equality of persons with disabilities. The map continues with step 3 summary and key learning points, then step 4 useful resources and it ends with step 5 learning activities.