“Empowering People with Disabilities to Claim their Rights and Entitlements”
Center for Development Studies In Cooperation with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
The project was funded by DfID CSCF
Aims and Objectives
The project aimed to empower People with Disabilities (PWD) to become key agents of change within their communities, enabling them to effectively self advocate using national and international legal frameworks and Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) practice guidelines. Specifically to lobby and support local government and Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in how to adopt and implement accessible and inclusive standards of practice, creating positive examples of successful inclusion which can be used to influence change at a national level.
Project Duration: 3.5 years
Expected Outputs
· PWDs in targeted areas of the oPt will be supported to know their rights and entitlements under Palestinian and international legislation as well as how to best claim them. This group will be an ongoing resource to train and influence change in practice and awareness of disability rights within the family, community and development organizations in their districts.
· Community based organizations, governmental and nongovernmental, will have the knowledge, awareness and confidence to include PWDs within their planning, implementation and evaluation of development programmes and activities.
· Increased access to disability information, training, resource materials and research produced and developed by and with PWDs to act as an evidence base to influence policy and practice at local and national level; lessons from which will also be shared further a field.
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