How can enterprises achieve business success while simultaneously creating equal opportunities?

To develop good partnerships with employers it is important that social service providers raise awareness among businesses of what is needed in creating equal opportunities for PwD. The ILO Global Business and Disability Network Charter provides a framework to help enterprises achieve business success while simultaneously creating equal opportunities.  Here are the 10 principles provided in the Charter:

• Promote and respect the rights of PwD by raising awareness and combatting stigma and stereotypes faced by PwD.
• Develop policies and practices that protect PwD from all types of discrimination.
• Promote equal treatment and equal opportunities for PwD by providing reasonable accommodation in the recruitment process, on-the-job, apprenticeships, training, job retention, career development and other relevant terms and conditions of employment.
• Progressively make the company premises and communication to staff accessible for all employees with disabilities. 
• Undertake approriate measures to enable current employees who acquire a disability to retain or return to their employment
• Respect confidentiality of personal information regarding disability. 
• Consider the needs of those PwD who face particular challenges accessing the labour market, including persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. 
• Review regularly the company disability inclusion policies and practices for their effectiveness.
• Report on company efforts to promote the employment of PwD to all relevant stakeholders and share information and experiences with the members of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network. The ILO will utilize the company reports and practices in its own communication, wherever relevant.