The present document has been prepared in response to the request in paragraph 15(b) of General Assembly resolution 65/186, in which the Secretary-General was asked to “provide information on best practices at international, regional, subregional and national levels for including persons with disabilities in all aspects of development efforts”. Its aim is the following:
(a) To establish a set of initial common criteria based on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for the identification of what constitutes best practices in mainstreaming disability;

(b) To present a number of case studies that illustrate these criteria and/or the efforts to implement them in inclusive development;

(c) To present recommendations that can be proposed for the discussion amongst different stakeholders in development and in the disability community leading up to the envisaged high-level meeting of the General Assembly on disability and development in 2013.