Revue Internationale des Études du Développement (Nov 2023)
Le plaidoyer des personnes en situation de handicap pour l'ODD 16+
Abstract
Optimists see sustainable development goals (SDGs) as levers in a global effort to ‘leave no one behind.’ Pessimists fear that SDGs align development policies with a neo-liberal project. This paper explores the debates between these two views, by examining the rationale underlying advocacy for SDGs among mainstream disabled persons’ organizations. It triangulates an analysis of their activism at the global level, in Canada, and in Haiti. Drawing on critical and intersectional institutionalist theory, it concludes that while the strategic positioning of some transnational disabled persons’ organizations in favor of SDGs is understandable and may contribute modestly to their struggles in a favorable context like Canada, it is unlikely to do so in a highly constraining context like Haiti.
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