Presentations
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 involves the eradication of poverty in all forms. Poverty eradication eliminates the impacts that being poor can have on people with disabilities. This further relates to SDG 8 which focuses on the promotion of a sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth with full and productive employment and decent work for all. This goal promotes equal opportunity to sustain people with disabilities livelihoods and that of their families. In addition, sustainable development is vital in terms of diminishing the existing issues within the spheres of environment, social, government and gender. People with disability are known as the most vulnerable group and most of poorest of the poor particularly towards opportunities of employment. It is also the inequality to opportunities that exacerbates the challenges of people with disability within the workplace that disables them from sustaining their livelihoods. Furthermore, the discrimination faced by people with disabilities within the workplace adds to the challenges of people with disability and results to increased poverty.
Furthermore, SDG 13 is about taking urgent Action to combat Climate Change & its Impacts! And its relevance to Disability. The targets of the SDG 13 considers specifically strengthening resilience and Adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries. For this reason, climate change adversely affect people with disabilities and we can no longer afford to remain silent about these factors. Also climate variability and climate change impacts on different people in different ways. By remaining silent we imply that disability does not matter and at the same time infringing upon constitutional rights of people with disabilities. Therefore, people with disabilities possess a wealth of knowledge of problem-solving abilities to contribute to the Sustainable Development Agenda and it is therefore important that their voices come through in the SDG and UNCRDP. Finally, people with disabilities must be encouraged to take ownership and a leadership role within projects.
Click on the links below to access the presentations on Slideshare
Agenda for Sustainable Development: Can It Benefit the Disabled Community? Marlene Le Roux
SDG 13 presentation by Chantal Brinkman
SDG 8 Presentation by Jane Harrison