List of acronyms

Assistive Technology

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Committee on the Rights of the Child

Convention on the Rights of the Child 

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Development Financing Institutions

Disabled Persons Organizations

Division for Inclusive Social Development/UNDESA

European Commission

Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs

Human Immunodeficiency virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic and Cultural Rights

International Classification of Function, The World Health Organization

Information and Communication Technology

International Labour Organization

International Training Center of the ILO

Inter-Parliamentary Union

Information and Communication Technology

International Telecommunication Union

Millennium Development Goals

Microfinance institutions

Multi-stakeholder Partnership

National Action Plans

Non-Governmental Organization

Non Visual Desktop Access

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa

Project Cycle Management

Protracted Relief Programme

Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered

Sustainable Development Goals

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

United Nations

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

United Nations Development Fund

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United Nations Children's Fund

United States Agency for International Development

Voice Output Communication Aids

World Health Organization