SDG National Commitments Form: Submission #19

Please outline briefly the commitment(s) made in the areas outlined above We are supporting our partner countries in establishing and expanding social protection systems in order to secure access to social protection for up to one billion more people by 2025 – including in the world’s poorest countries. By doing this, we are enhancing the resilience of our partners and contributing to alleviating poverty and inequality. In particular, we will contribute to strengthening the rights of persons with disabilities worldwide, for example through systematic inclusion in our development cooperation. By organising the 2025 Global Disability Summit in Berlin, we are sending a strong message that the inclusion of persons with disabilities should not be seen as an act of charity, but rather a fundamental duty of governments.

• Germany is supporting partner countries in establishing and expanding adaptive national social protection systems to give more people social protection coverage and provide greater protection against multiple risks and shocks, e.g. in the Sahel region through participation in a World Bank multi-donor trust fund with a contribution of €130 million.

• Support for the UN Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. The Global Accelerator’s goals are to take measures to extend social protection coverage to the four billion people currently excluded and create 400 million decent jobs in future-proof sectors in the Global South.

• Germany is also supporting access to social protection for poor and vulnerable people in crisis regions in Africa in order to strengthen their livelihoods in crisis situations and create opportunities. Germany is providing €100 million, for example for joint activities with UNICEF and WFP.

• Germany is promoting digital technologies and standards that can be used to make social protection systems needs-based, efficient, transparent and interoperable; to this end, it is cooperating with international partners like the World Bank.

• Together with its co-hosts JOR and the International Disability Alliance (IDA), Germany will host the 2025 Global Disability Summit in Berlin on 2 and 3 April 2025. The summit will send a strong message of support for global implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities. We will also canvass support from other donors to make inclusion standard in development cooperation.

• At the summit, Germany will launch a multilateral initiative with other donors, partner countries and OPDs (organisations of persons with disabilities) to drive forward implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

• Systematic mainstreaming of inclusion in Germany’s development cooperation: For example, Germany will make it mandatory to clearly indicate the contribution of all new projects to the inclusion of persons with disabilities (inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities