New UN publication: Disability and the Millennium Development Goals: A Review of the MDG Process and Strategies for Inclusion of Disability Issues in Millennium Development Goal Efforts.

The United Nations have released a new publication on disability and the MDG's: 'Disability and the Millennium Development Goals. A Review of the MDG Process and Strategies for Inclusion of Disability Issues in Millennium Development Goal Efforts'. This publication is intended to provide a “road map” for how and why disability can and should be included in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of MDG-related programmes and policies.

The publication is intended for two audiences:

1. Those working in disability advocacy, programming and outreach efforts who seek to better understand the MDGs in order to ensure that disability issues are effectively integrated into current and future MDG efforts.

2. Those working on MDG-related efforts who need to understand the links between disability and poverty in order to work with the disability community to ensure that disability issues are better integrated into all current and future MDG work.

The reason for the preparation of this review is that although it has been argued by some that the commitment of the United Nations to the rights of persons with disability and their inclusion in all MDG activities are implied in the MDGs, this implicit inclusion seems rarely to lead to their inclusion in either general or targeted MDG efforts.

Download the new publication through this link: www.un.org/disabilities/documents/review_of_disability_and_the_mdgs.pdf . More information can be find on the UN enable website.