Interventions | Impact | Milestones

• Contributed to the consultation process on the CRC Committee’s Draft General Comment on Climate Change and the resultant General Comment № 26 (2023) on Children’s Rights and the Environment, with a Special Focus on Climate Change, emphasised the urgent need to address the adverse effects of environmental degradation, on the enjoyment of children’s rights (including children with disabilities), and clarifies the obligations of States to address environmental harm and climate change.

• Written Submission in collaboration with Ar. Kavya Poornima Balajepalli (Poornamidam) to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities's General Comment on Persons with Disabilities in Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies [OHCHR took cognizance of it and uploaded the recommendation on its official website - Search for submission by the name of National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP)].

• Worked with the United Nations India’s Office of the UN Resident Coordinator concerning the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS), Approaches to Disability Inclusion, Disability-Inclusive Indicators/Marker, and Research Study and Capacity Building Programme Design on DiDRR.

• Drafted and contributed to the NCPEDP’s Manifesto For and By Citizens with Disabilities’s section on Climate Change that called for the ‘Formation of National Mission on Climate Change for Vulnerable Communities under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, 2008’ and ‘Real-time Disaggregated Data Collection for the Implementation of Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction’.

• 15th NCPEDP – Mphasis Universal Design 2024 Awardee [Jury Appreciation – Role Model Persons with Disabilities for advocating the need for Universal Accessibility as an integral component for Disability-led and Inclusive Climate Action Strategies and Plans (SDG 13) (July – August 2024)

• Diversability’s 5th Annual 2024 D-30 Disability Impact List Honoree (July 2024)