(New Zealand Disability Strategy Objective 2: Ensure rights for disabled people; Objective 5: Foster leadership by disabled people)

Departments are giving attention to actions that will help disabled people know their rights and develop as leaders so they can be in a better position to take advantage of opportunities within society.

The Office for Disability Issues provided funds in 2009 for a website for the Stepping Up leadership programme run by the Auckland City Council for disabled people and others from the disability sector.

Relevant planned actions include:

• training for disabled people in their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: over 2010 (Office for Disability Issues)
• producing a Māori language version of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: in 2010 (Office for Disability Issues)
• preparing accessible versions of human rights legislation (Ministry of Justice)
• ensuring the delivery of the Ministry for the Environment’s accreditation course Making Good Decisions, for Regional Management Authority decision-makers, is accessible by people who are visually impaired: 2010 (Ministry for the Environment).