| Training Manual on Disability Statistics |
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| Appendix 4: Biwako Millennium Framework for Action Targets |
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| 1. Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and related family and parent associations |
| Target 1. |
Governments, international funding agencies, and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) should, by 2004, establish policies with the requisite resource allocations to support the development and formation of self-help organizations of persons with disabilities in all areas, and with a specific focus on slum and rural dwellers. Governments should take steps to ensure the formation of parents associations at local levels by the year 2005 and federate them at the national level by year 2010. |
| Target 2. |
Governments and civil society organizations should, by 2005, fully include organizations of persons with disabilities in their decision-making processes involving planning and programme implementation which directly and indirectly affect their lives. |
| 2. Women with disabilities |
| Target 3. |
Governments should, by 2005, ensure anti-discrimination measures, where appropriate, which safeguard the rights of women with disabilities. |
| Target 4. |
National self-help organizations of persons with disabilities should, by 2005, adopt policies to promote the full participation and equal representation of women with disabilities in their activities, including in management, organizational training and advocacy programmes. |
| Target 5. |
Women with disabilities should, by 2005, be included in the membership of national mainstream women’s associations. |
| 3. Early detection, early intervention and education |
| Target 6. |
Children and youth with disabilities will be an integral part of the population targeted by the millennium development goal of ensuring that by 2015 all boys and girls will complete a full course of primary schooling. |
Target 7. |
At least 75 per cent of children and youth with disabilities of school age will, by 2010, be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. |
| Target 8. |
By 2012, all infants and young children (birth to four years old) will have access to and receive community-based early intervention services, which ensure survival, with support and training for their families. |
| Target 9. |
Governments should ensure detection of disabilities at as early an age as possible. |
| 4. Training and employment, including self-employment |
| Target 10. |
At least 30 per cent of the signatories (member States) will ratify the International Labour Organization Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) |
| Target 11. |
By 2012, at least 30 per cent of all vocational training programmes in signatory countries will be inclusive of persons with disabilities and provide appropriate support and job placement or business development services for them. |
| Target 12. |
By 2010, reliable data that measure the employment and selfemployment rates of persons with disabilities will exist in all countries. |
| 5. Access to built environments and public transport |
| Target 13. |
Governments should adopt and enforce accessibility standards for planning of public facilities, infrastructure and transport, including those in rural/agricultural contexts. |
| Target 14. |
All new and renovated public transport systems, including road, water, light and heavy mass railway, and air transport systems, should be made fully accessible by persons with disabilities and older persons; existing land, water and air public transport systems (vehicles, stops and terminals) should be made accessible and usable as soon as practicable. |
| Target 15. |
All international and regional funding agencies for infrastructure
development should include universal and inclusive design concepts in their loan/grant award criteria. |
| 6. Access to information and communications, including information, communications and assistive technologies |
| Target 16. |
By 2005, persons with disabilities should have at least the same rate of access to the Internet and related services as the rest of citizens in a country of the region. |
| Target 17. |
International organizations (e.g., International Telecommunication Union, International Organization for Standardization, World Trade Organization, World Wide Web Consortium, Motion Picture Engineering Group) responsible for international ICT standards should, by 2004, incorporate accessibility standards for persons with disabilities in their international ICT standards. |
| Target 18. |
Governments should adopt, by 2005, ICT accessibility guidelines for persons with disabilities in their national ICT policies and specifically include persons with disabilities as their target beneficiary group with appropriate measures. |
| Target 19. |
Governments should develop and coordinate a standardized sign language, finger Braille, tactile sign language, in each country and to disseminate and teach the results through all means, i.e. publications, CD-ROMs, etc. |
| Target 20. |
Governments should establish a system in each country to train and dispatch sign language interpreters, Braille transcribers, finger Braille interpreters, and human readers, and to encourage their employment. |
| Target 21. |
Governments should halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
persons with disabilities whose income/consumption is less than one
dollar a day. |
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