DRAFT AGENDA
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening
Introductory remarks
• Ms. Maria Soledad CISTERNAS REYES, Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
• Director of Political Affairs, African Union Commission (AUC)
• Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (tbc)
• Photo session
10:00-10:10 Display of the CRPD anniversary video
10:10-11:00

Panel discussion - 10 years of the UN CRPD: Why ratify the CRPD?
Moderator: Ms. Catalina DEVANDAS-AGUILAR, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Panellists:
• Benefits of ratification from the UN Committee’s perspective: Ms. Maria Soledad CISTERNAS REYES, Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Benefits of ratification from a State perspective: an African country that ratified the Convention
• The African Union disability architecture and its linkages with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Social Affairs (AUC)
• The African Union legal framework on the the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities: Ms. Jamesina KING, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the rights of Older Persons and People with Disabilities, African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
Q&A
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
 
11:15-11:40 Panel discussion - 10 years of the UN CRPD: Why ratify the CRPD?
Q&A (continued)
11:40-13:00 Panel discussion - 10 years of the UN CRPD: Why report and engage with the CRPD Committee? How does this contribute to the implementation of the Convention?
Moderator: Ms. Maria Soledad CISTERNAS REYES, Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Panelists:
• Benefits of reporting from the UN Committee’s perspective: Mr. Coomaravel PYANEANDEE, CRPD member
• Benefits of reporting from a State perspective: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ethiopia
• Benefits of reporting from a civil society perspective and the role of Civil Society Organizations in monitoring the implementation of the CRPD: Ms. Yetnebersh NIGUISSE, Light for the World
Q&A
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14:30-15:00 Working Group discussions - Reporting under the CRPD and the Sustainable Development Goals: complementarities and synergies
Moderator/ facilitator: Director of Political Affairs (AUC)
14:30-14:45 - Presentation by Mr. Shuaib CHALKLEN, Chairperson of African Disability Forum
14:45-15:00 - Presentation by Ms. Beza BESHAH, International Disability Alliance
15:00-16:00 Working Groups
(Each group could have a mix of State representatives, CSOs and expert - Groups will be pre-defined beforehand, with the exception of State officials who will choose according to their interests)
1 - Access to health services - Rapporteur: Mr. Danlami BASHARU, CRPD member
2 - Access to education - Rapporteur: Ms. Maria Soledad CISTERNAS REYES, CRPD Chairperson
3 - Work and employment - Rapporteur: Mr. Martin Babu MWESIGWA, CRPD member
4 - Access to justice - Rapporteur: Mr. Coomaravel PYANEANDEE, CRPD member
5 - Data disaggregation - Rapporteur: Ms. Catalina DEVANDAS-AGUILAR, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Working Group Presentations to the plenary (5 minutes each)
Moderator/facilitator: Director of Political Affairs (AUC)
17:15-17:30 Closing
• African Union Commission
• Ms. Maria Soledad CISTERNAS REYES, Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities