Ghana holds maiden disability-inclusion summit
The event was under the theme “Ending Invisibility: Building Standards for Disability Inclusion and Sustainable Post-Covid-19 Ghana”.
The summit, held at the Accra International Conference Centre on December 3, saw the launch of the 8 Commitments Government of Ghana pledged during the 2018 Global Disability Summit on disability-inclusiveness.
The eight commitments of the government of Ghana are: to eliminate stigma and discrimination against persons with disabilities; to promote inclusive education; to ensure routes to economic empowerment of persons with disabilities; to harness technology and innovation to better lives of persons with disabilities; to build disaggregated data on persons with disabilities to inform policy formulation and implementation; to make adequate provisions for women and girls with disabilities on account of double discrimination; mainstream disability into conflict and humanitarian responses; ensure acces