Welcome to this survey!With your support, we are building a shared Declaration of Disabled Peoples Rights In Aotearoa New Zealand!
A declaration is a statement of our rights that we want upheld in law and in practice.
Change is strongest when we build it together.
This survey is an opportunity for you to help shape what the declaration should include.
This is an idea generation survey. This means we are looking for ideas that may not be highlighted in other places to inform a draft declaration.
Any draft declaration will be shared widely for feedback before finalising.
Your voice is important!
You don't need to have any experience with other declarations, the NZ Disability Strategy, or submissions to do the survey.
Imagine what we can do when we come together — we are many, and our voices matter!
About Finding Common Ground.Finding Common Ground is an initiative led by Disabled Persons Assembly NZ (DPA), National Enabling Good Lives (NEGL), and Te Ao Mārama Aotearoa (TAMA). It is being generously funded by Foundation North, J R Mackenzie Trust and Spectrum Foundation.
We are working together to build a shared declaration of disabled people’s rights in Aotearoa New Zealand that is grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Enabling Good Lives.
You can read more about the Finding Common Ground project including who we are and where the idea came from here.What will we do with the information you share with us? Your survey responses will be treated with care and stored securely.
Our team will look at what you and others share in this survey. We will then draw on existing declarations and key frameworks to summarise information into options to be included in the declaration.
We will hold more engagements to understand what the community wants to prioritise from these options and make a draft declaration. We will then share it for people to provide further feedback before it is finalised by our steering group.
Thank you so much for joining the collective effort to help shape the declaration— we are many, and our voices matter!
Please read this before you start the survey:
More detail on how the information you share with us will be used.