ACFID and the RDI Network respectfully acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
Compliance with the Commitments will be assessed against the following Compliance Indicators. All of the applicable Compliance Indicators must be met by every ACFID Member to be considered compliant with the Code. Each of the Compliance Indicators has one or more compliance Verifiers. Verifiers are the description of evidence that is required to substantiate compliance with each Compliance Indicator. Guidance is also provided.
Policy, statement or guideline document that commits the Member to the inclusion of people with disabilities.
An example statement on inclusion of people with disabilities from an ACFID Member that would satisfy this indicator is provided below:
"In everything we do, CBM strives to work for and with people with disability, to promote their human rights and empowerment. Both in Australia and overseas we’re working with many government bodies and development agencies, to promote the importance of inclusion of people with disabilities and to ensure a political commitment to disability in aid and development activities."
Design or planning framework, tools, templates which require or approaches which consistently show evidence of consultation with people with disabilities and contextual analysis of the barriers to social inclusion and participation.
Design or planning framework, tools or templates could include the use of an activity design template and activity appraisal/assessment template which require the explicit analysis of needs of people with disabilities in the community or organisation. These tools should include prompts to ensure the analysis includes the perspectives of those marginalised due to disability, and consideration of barriers to their inclusion. Planning approaches should involve direct consultation with people with disabilities and disabled person’s organisations (DPOs) and contextual analysis of the barriers to inclusion and participation.
Development and humanitarian initiatives consistently show evidence of people with disabilities and/or their representative organisations participating in decision-making about the initiatives that affect them.
Approaches which promote opportunities for people with disabilities to be included in policy and program related decision-making could be incorporated throughout design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. Strategies that seek to promote these opportunities include: consulting local disabled people's organisations; tailoring approaches to include people with physical impairments, unseen or undisclosed impairments, psychosocial or intellectual impairments; including people with disabilities or a DPO on the design or monitoring and evaluation teams; and employing people with disabilities.
Monitoring and evaluation framework, tools, templates which require or approaches which consistently show evidence of the assessment of progress in promoting empowerment of people with disabilities.
Monitoring and evaluation approaches could include consultation with DPOs, the collection of data that disaggregates for people with disabilities, and dedicated analysis on how the initiative has promoted the empowerment of people with disabilities.
Monitoring and evaluation frameworks may have a set of output or outcome indicators that explicitly relate to progress in promoting empowerment of people with disabilities. Monitoring tools, or templates could include explicit sub-sections that prompt analysis of the extent to which the initiative has worked with people with disabilities, employed strategies to promote the participation of people with disabilities, and provided opportunities to empower people with disabilities. The analysis of the empowerment of people with disabilities could be included as a dedicated inquiry area in evaluation terms of reference.
The following Good Practice Indicators describe a higher standard of practice than that set out in the Compliance Indicators. While Members do not need to meet the Good Practice Indicators to be considered compliant with the Code, they will self-assess against these indicators once every three years. This provides a clear pathway for Members to strengthen and improve practice over time.
Here are some practical suggestions for your organisation to further deepen and improve practice over time.