In addition to contributing to shadow reporting efforts for the UN Convention, AFDO has also developed a scoping paper to examine a way forward for human rights monitoring projects. While there is a need for regular shadow reporting against the Convention to be part of disability rights monitoring, there is also a need to look at Australia-specific disability rights issues which are not addressed in the Convention, such as the funding mechanisms for disability services and the difficulties imposed by a federated system of government.

The scoping paper aims to promote discussion within AFDO about the work it should be doing in these areas into the future. In particular, it recommends steps for AFDO to take to begin human rights monitoring, and specific areas of government lobbying work. AFDO has already begun to promote the paper to relevant politicians, and to lobby for capacity building within disabled persons organizations to be a government priority. The AFDO Board and members have already begun initial discussions of the projects suggested in the scoping paper. Further work will be undertaken on the basis of these discussions throughout 2010.