• Draw on achievements and best practices the past 10 years of our democracy and addressing key challenges that remain.

• Forming partnerships, sharing expertise, new innovative ideas, technological advances and developmental models that can assist and facilitate the implementation of programmes towards the ongoing inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in mainstream society.

• Continue to assist in improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities as it relates to working life, social life and daily living.

• Stimulate innovation, skills, knowledge and expertise transfer in the areas of access legislation, policy and programmes; economic empowerment, social development, assistive devices and technology; structural and environmental accessibility as well as capacity building.

• Stimulate the development of integrated responses in service provision within the public and private sectors.

• Generating information for the development of a full report on access related achievements and best practices over the past 10 years of our democracy and challenges that remain that can guide the development of access programmes over the next ten years.

• Forming of partnerships towards programme implementation through sharing of knowledge, skills, expertise, best practices and innovative funding opportunities from an International, Continental, National, Provincial and Local context.

• Successfully placing access, as the primary barrier to equal participation of persons with disabilities, on the mainstream agenda of democracy celebrations of our country and province for it to get the political and general public attention it deserves.

• Assist in shaping national, provincial and local access programmes flowing from integrated disability strategies and linked to the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities goals.

• Identifying progress since the Access 2004 conference.