The Third Conference of States Parties (COP) which will take place from 1st to 3rd September 2010, will include the renewal of the CRPD Committee.

Recently, the CRPD has reached the 80 ratifications, which means that the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will increase from 12 to 18 members in 2011.

The renovation of 6 of the CRPD Committee members (those whose term expires in 2010 can run one more term) and the election of the 6 new positions will happen in this Third COP.

IDA has prepared a number of documents related to the nomination process of candidates for the CRPD Committee to inform about the election process and to give suggestions and advice to national DPOs on how to exert influence in the nomination process at national level.

To have access to these documents please click the links below:

Election Process for the CRPD Committee: English / Spanish

Nomination Process: English / Spanish

Profile of candidates: English / Spanish

For the first election process, IDA (CRPD Forum) contributed to the process of selection of the CRPD Committee through a questionnaire which was sent to all candidates to the CRPD Committee and it was answered by more than half of them.

IDA will do this same process for the second election of the CRPD Committee as a way of contributing to a process that should be based on the quality of the candidates. This questionnaire can also serve as a tool at national level to be used in the assessment of the quality of different candidates.

To acces to the questionnaire produced by IDA, please click the links below:

Questionnaire: English / Spanish

Information on the Candidates

IDA will include, in this section, information on those nominations that have been decided at national level.