CC.2.2 Country office meets or exceeds UNDIS standards on consulting organizations of persons with disabilities

CC.2.2 Country office meets or exceeds United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) standards on consulting organizations of persons with disabilities

VERSION

V4.0 - 2026.03 — Existing with revisions

INDICATOR CODE

CC.2.2

TECHNICAL OWNER

GPI Unit

INDICATOR TYPE

Country Level Cross-cutting Indicator

Priority Area: Ensuring Protection and accountability to affected people

INDICATOR CLASSIFICATION

Mandatory

INDICATOR SCOPE

Programme specific

APPLICABILITY

This indicator is applicable at CSP level.

Applicable and mandatory to all CSPs with activities targeting Tier one and Tier two/three beneficiaries.

UNIT OF MEASUREMENT & ANALYSIS

Unit of analysis: Country Office (CO)

Categorical:

• Missing

• Approaching

• Meeting

• Exceeding

DEFINITION

This indicator aims to measure the extent to which a CO is meeting the UNDIS standards on consulting organizations pf persons with disabilities.

Below are some key terminologies for this indicator:

Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (sometimes known as Disabled Persons Organizations): “Organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) are non-governmental Organizations led, directed and governed by persons with disabilities, who should compose a clear majority of their membership. OPDs play a critical role in representing the viewpoints of persons with disabilities. Article 4.3 of the CRPD92 calls on States Parties to engage with persons with disabilities through their representative Organizations; OPDs accordingly serve as representative Organizations and intermediary bodies between policymakers and individuals with disabilities.” (un_disability-inclusive_consultation_guidelines.pdf)

Organizations Providing Services to Persons with Disabilities: there are many Organizations, ranging from local service providers to local and international non-profits that provide services to persons with disabilities. These Organizations are not the same as Organizations of persons with disabilities, as they are often not run by persons with disabilities and are not membership based. Some of these Organizations partner quite closely with Organizations of persons with disabilities and run their operations taking a rights-based approach aligning with the UNCRPD. Other Organizations do not and may operate taking a charity or medical approach (which does not align with the work of UNDIS and WFP). It is important to be able to distinguish between OPDs and service providers, and to prioritize consultations with OPDs.

Participation: Often considered interchangeable with community engagement, participation of people affected by humanitarian crises or in need of a social safety floor puts the needs and interests of those people at the core of humanitarian decision making, by actively engaging them throughout decision-making processes. For the purposes of this strategy, it is assumed that good community engagement practices lead to affected people being empowered to claim their active and continuous participation in the decision-making processes that affect their lives, at the intersection of WFP interventions.

RATIONALE

In 2019, the Executive Office of the Secretary General launched the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy to support and sustain UN entities’ progress on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of their work. In November 2020, WFP launched a 2-year Road Map on Disability Inclusion to act on all 15 of the UNDIS indicators. Indicator 5 of the UNDIS relates to Consultations in specific and the WFP Road Map describes this in Key Results Area 2 through the following statement: “Meaningful consultation with persons with disabilities and their representative organizations is foundational to disability inclusion and ensuring the full and effective participation of persons with disabilities in WFP operations and programming. While consultation underpins all actions in this road map, WFP commits to taking specific actions to systematically enhance its consultation approach and practices through the following key actions.”

Consulting people with disabilities in WFP’s work is necessary because participation is a fundamental human rights principle. People with disabilities are best placed to know what they need to be included in WFP programmes and consulting a diverse range of people (not only those with disabilities) helps better decision making and more inclusive programming. Two key documents outline how this works:

• un_disability-inclusive_consultation_guidelines.pdf

• WFP Guidance Note on Consulting Persons with Disabilities and their Representative Organizations

The aim of this indicator is two-fold. It enables WFP at the entity level to report against the QCPR on the related UNDIS indicator. It also enables WFP to report against country-level progress on consultations.

DATA COLLECTION TOOL

Please use this this link to help you calculate this indicator. This will allow the DI team to report on the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy to the SGs office. This is an extract of the questions that will be required for the information on the country-level indicators:

1. Does your CO have a strategy/ roadmap/ action plan or workplan that integrates Disability Inclusion? (This can be integrated within a broader strategy - e.g. gender, protection and inclusion strategy, localization strategy, part of the UNCT strategy, mainstreamed throughout the CSP, or a standalone strategy)

2. Do you consult OPDs in the design and implementation of this strategy?

3. Were people with disabilities and their representative organizations consulted in your Country Strategic Planning?

4. Were people with disabilities and/or their representative organizations consulted in setting Annual Priorities for your Country Offices? If so, explain how and for which priorities.

5. Were people with disabilities and/or their representative organizations consulted in emergency risk and needs assessments, preparedness and response planning processes.

6. Does your Country Office have a formal partnership (FLA or other) with an OPD? If so, what is the name of the OPD? What is the scope of their work?

SAMPLING REQUIREMENTS

N/A

INDICATOR CALCULATION FOR REPORTING

This indicator is calculated using the following CO scoring guide:

Missing: CO answers ‘No’ to questions 1 through 6

Approaching: CO answers ‘Yes’ to questions 1 through 2

Meeting: CO answers ‘Yes’ to questions 1 through 5

Exceeding: CO answers ‘Yes’ to questions 1 through 6

Note: If the indicator is relevant/applicable for the country office (CO) but data hasn't been collected or couldn't be obtained, the CO should report a value of "Missing" for the follow-up.

DATA ENTRY AND DISAGGREGATION IN CORPORATE SYSTEMS

Data for this indicator will be entered in COMET at CSP level.

BASELINE

The baseline is to be established through CO self-assessment.

Note: For the first reporting year, when planning to collect data once per year, the CO should enter the first collected value as the baseline in COMET. No values should be entered for follow-up at this stage.

TARGET SETTING

Annual target:

Either ‘Approaching’ or ‘Meeting’.

End of CSP targets:

End of cycle should be ‘Meeting’.

FREQUENCY OF DATA COLLECTION

Once a year.

INTERPRETATION

The indicator is intended to demonstrate progress on WFP’s commitment to ensuring the inclusion and consultation of persons with disability in all aspects of their work.

Each CO will report ‘Y/N’ based on whether they ‘Meet’ or ‘Exceed’ the UNDIS standards at a country level. Results are expected to be low in terms of numbers of countries meeting or exceeding the indicator on consultations because current levels of engagement with OPDs in WFP CO yearly planning and Project implementation is inconsistent. This is due to the fact that only one region (RBB) has piloted the strategic roll out of Disability Inclusion and the fact that HQ has only recently released guidance on consulting people with disabilities and their representative organizations. Nevertheless, WFP’s Community Engagement for AAP Strategy highlights the need to consult with a diverse range of actors, including specifically persons with disabilities and OPDs, so efforts to ensure this will complement the achievement of this indicator. The targets for the next 5 years are expected to be reasonably low with 30-40% compliance across COs given that Regional Roll outs for DI started in 2022 and HQ guidance was released in the same year. Where a CO can report Y, this should be interpreted as a best practice for WFP.

REPORTING EXAMPLE(S)

CO level:

X Country is missing/ approaching/ meeting/ exceeding the WFP indicator on consultations.

WFP at an entity level is missing/ approaching/ meeting/ exceeding the WFP indicator on consultations.

INDICATORS COLLECTED & ANALYSED AT THE SAME TIME

The following indicators may be reported along with this indicator:

• CC.2.4 Country office has an action plan on community engagement

• CC.7.1 Number of community-based organizations with whom WFP has established relationships

COMPLEMENTARY QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Direct observations, Key Informant Interviews or Focus Group Discussions can be used to consult with relevant stakeholders, whether they are satisfied with the quality of consultation and the processes that have been put in place.

DECISIONS DATA CAN INFORM

The result of the indicator will inform the CO whether further efforts need to be undertaken to improve adherence to UNDIS standards (if result is “missing”, or “approaching”), or whether the current status is to be maintained (“meeting”, “exceeding”).

Highlighting positive examples of progress on consultations with people with disabilities by the CO (Whether WFP is getting more disability inclusive in its programmes and operations).

VISUALIZATION

Example:

LIMITATIONS

• The main limitation of this indicator is that it refers to Country Offices that have a coherent and strategic approach to Rolling out Disability Inclusion within their contexts. Whilst the approach can be part of a UNCT-wide effort or even AAP work, many Country Offices do not have a strategy on Disability Inclusion where they would consult with OPDs for the purposes of its implementation.

• Another limitation is that the indicator refers to annual planning and priority setting and consulting OPDs within these processes. In many COs, OPDs are consulted but mainly at an activity or Project level in certain parts of the country, which would not be sufficient to meet this indicator.

• In addition to this, the indicator description itself doesn’t give enough detail to ensure that a diversity of OPDs (women, indigenous peoples, different impairment types) are being consulted to ensure an intersectional approach nor does it recognise the value of the participation of informal groups of persons with disabilities that can contribute to inclusive programming. Technical notes on the UNDIS Consultation indicator give more information and guidance on these elements as does the WFP Guidance on the consultation of Persons with Disabilities and their Representative Organizations.

• Finally, to meaningfully engage persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, WFP aims at longer term agreements which have benefits to both parties and are not extractive. Given the methods of engagement of CPs that currently exist within WFP (FLAs and MoUs), there are barriers to setting up formal agreements with smaller and less well-established OPDs. These need to be addressed and could hinder exceeding this indicator.

FURTHER INFORMATION

UN Country Team Accountability Scorecard on Disability Inclusion

UN_Disability_Inclusion_Strategy_Entity_Technical_Notes.pdf

un_disability-inclusive_consultation_guidelines.pdf

Community Engagement Strategy for AAP 2021-2026