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NZ Experience
December 2010
History
E ngä iwi, e ngä reo, e ngä karangatanga maha o ngä hau e
whä, tënei te mihi atu ki a koutou kätoa. Tënä koutou,
tënä koutou, ä, tënä koutou katoa.
Tihei mauriora.
To all people, all voices, all the many relations from the four
winds, I greet you all.
•  Development of “Our Voice”
•  Development of NZ Disability Strategy
MAKING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
WHAKANUI ORANGA
April 2001
The promise
•  Underpinning the New Zealand Disability Strategy is a vision of a
fully inclusive society. New Zealand will be inclusive when people
with impairments can say they live in:
‘A society that highly values our lives and continually enhances
our full participation.’
‘Disability is in society, not in me.’
‘I have the right to dignity, to develop my potential, to use my
qualities and skills.’
– Consultation comments
We live in a disabling society. The New Zealand Disability Strategy
presents a plan for changing this.
The Areas covered
•  To advance New Zealand towards a fully
inclusive society, the Strategy includes fifteen
Objectives, underpinned by detailed Actions.
The Objectives are to:
•  encourage and educate for a non-disabling
society
•  ensure rights for disabled people
•  provide the best education for disabled people
•  provide opportunities in employment and
economic development for disabled people
•  foster leadership by disabled people
Areas Covered
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foster an aware and responsive public service
create long-term support systems centred on the individual
support quality living in the community for disabled people
support lifestyle choices, recreation and culture for disabled
people
collect and use relevant information about disabled people and
disability issues
promote participation of disabled Mäori
promote participation of disabled Pacific peoples
enable disabled children and youth to lead full and active lives
promote participation of disabled women in order to improve their
quality of life
value families, whänau and people providing ongoing support.
New Zealand Disability Strategy – Outcomes
framework
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To have opportunities to fully participate in:
Learning
Civic life
Their community
Paid &
Relationships
unpaid work
People need to:
Communicate
Move around
Find out
Look after themselves
Make
about things
& their family
decisions
like others at a similar age and stage of life.
Many things influence this:
Personal
circumstances
Natural support networks
including whānau & friends
Environmental
Government
and societal
funded
factors
mainstream
supports
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Disability supports
The review
•  Prioritising implementation activities
•  Providing additional focus for the most disadvantaged.
•  Facilitating greater partnership between central government
agencies and disabled people.
•  Developing the capacity of disabled people - employees and
external experts
•  Continuing to support regulatory change to remove barriers
Improving the regular supply of information - monitor changes in life
outcomes
•  Moving to multi-year plans and reports for priority areas
•  Refining annual planning and reporting requirements Enhancing
support to central government agencies
•  Comparison of the 2011 post-census disability survey data with the
2001 survey.
UNCRPD
•  Provided greater focus and additional
tools
•  A history of collaboration
•  Crucial role played by NZ
Our vision:
A fully inclusive New Zealand, where people with
impairments can say they live in a society that ‘highly
values our lives and continually enhances our full
participation’ [NZDS]
Leadership
and accountability
Set direction and review
progress (Ministerial
Committee)
Implement direction,
report on actions
(CE group?)
Involvement and
monitoring (disabled
people and Disabled
Persons Organisations)
Promote, monitor and
report (Office for
Disability Issues)
Modern disability
supports
•  Simple/easy entry
•  Self-determination
•  Choice
•  Early support
•  Resilient families
•  Community
development
(Whanau Ora)
Accessible
New Zealand
•  Accessible cities
(Auckland)
•  Accessible
government
•  Accepting
communities
•  Transport/travel
•  Built environment/
buildings
Contributing
citizens
•  Achieving at school
and work
•  Looking after self
and family/whanau
•  Equal access to
justice
•  ‘Nothing about us
without us’
•  Information/
communication/
broadcasting
Driving change: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; New Zealand
Disability Strategy; Government response to the Social Services Select Committee Report of
its Inquiry into the Quality of Care and Services Provision for People with Disabilities
A new environment for disability issues
Living an everyday life
Jobs
Mobility
& Access
Supports for
Living
Individual/family
living an ordinary life with ordinary
opportunities, choices and
responsibilities
Activity
(fundamental
tasks
or actions
performed
by the
individual)
Participation
(fundamental
roles and life
situations)
1 - UN Convention has created a new environment for disability issues
Framework to promote, protect and monitor implementation
Co-ordinating mechanism
within government for implementation
Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues
Chief Executives’ Group on
Disability Issues
Senior Officials Group on
Disability Issues
Focal point
within
government
Office for
Disability
Issues
•  Trusting and collaborative relationships,
at all levels
•  Information sharing and regular meetings
•  Annual meeting between Ministerial Committee
and independent mechanism
Independent mechanism
Ombudsmen
Human Rights Commission
Civil Society
(disabled
people’s
organisations)
Important factors
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Budget bid
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Training by Marcia Rioux’s team
–  Part of capacity building
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Development of the NZ report
Disability Action Plan
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | New Zealand Disability Strategy
A fully inclusive New Zealand, where people with impairments can say “we live in a society that highly values our lives and continually enhances our full participation”.
Leading opportunities to make a difference
Supports for Living
How government funding of
supports for disabled people can
align with the Ministry of Health’s
new model for disability supports.
Disabled people may need supports to
help them do everyday things in
everyday ways. A new model for the
Ministry of Health’s disability supports
is about increasing disabled people’s
control and choice over their supports
and their lives.
Mobility & Access
Jobs
What government provides to enable
disabled people to move around
their community.
What government provides to
promote disabled people getting into
paid work.
Moving around and accessing the built
environment is a fundamental activity
that enables, or creates a barrier
against, disabled people getting into
work, education and training, or
otherwise participating in their
community. It allows people to have a
choice in what they can do.
Getting paid work increases a disabled
person’s independence, increases their
social networks, and improves their
financial security and sense of selfworth. It promotes respect from others
and contributes to leading an ordinary
life.
Key work underway by agencies to progress leading opportunities
Review of Special
Education
Vocational Services
Transition from school
Social change programme on attitudes and
behaviours towards disabled people
Improving accessibility: Information | Buildings | Services | Communication
Leadership and accountability
(Framework to promote, protect and monitor implementation)
Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues
(Set strategic priorities and review progress)
•  Chief Executives’ Group (Lead implementing priorities, report)
•  Senior Officials Group (Manage implementing priorities;
monitor implementation and report on progress)
•  Office for Disability Issues (Focal point within government)
Human Rights Commission, and
the Office of the Ombudsmen (Promote, Protect and
Monitor implementation; report to Parliament)
Civil Society (disabled people’s organisations)
(Monitor implementation; report on disabled people’s experiences)
Contact details
For further information
http://www.odi.govt.nz/nzds