Disability is not Inability

::NACC Joint AIDs Review Meeting with stakeholders from Organisations with Disabilites

The Annual stakeholders review meeting of progress the response is making within the disability sector was held resently at a nairobi hotel.

The disability community was represented by various organisations by and for persons with disabilities. A noteable absent organisation was the National Council for persons with disabilites (NCPWD) who neither sent apologies or representative.

The meeting is held annually to review progress made in the fight against AIDs under the new Kenya National Strategic Plan 2005/6 -2009/10 is organised by the National AIDS Control Council (NACC). Althouth NACC still did not have funds released from the donors it was still in the process of organising and coordinating various activities including CACC funding issues and challenges. The PWD organisations raised concerns about access to these devoloved funds and the need for special consideration of the Disability community in accessing these and other funds.

stakeholders Review meeting partcipants pose for a group photograph. the last meeting was held at KIE and also sort to review semi-annual progress of the response. Seated Centre Carolyne of NACC.

The PWDs raised the question of visibility of disability issues in national startegic planning. The representation of the PWD in the Strategic Plan for example was not adequate. This was an expression of the low awareness and mainstreaming of disabiliy isseus. There was need for more representation, and implementation of issues discussed even in previous meetings.

Monitoring forms extracted from the NACC Strategic Plan under the one Monitoring & Evaluation principle was the subject of the workshop. The partcipants disacussied their activities within AIDS and reviewed their progress within the standard indicators set in the strategic plan.

The main indicators though standard bring with them the challenges of disability and AIDS in Kenya.

1. Preventions of new infections among the disabled.

2. Improvement of the quality of life of Disabled people infected & affected by HIV/AIDS.

3. Mitigation of Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDs.

4. KNASP Support sercvices.

The partcipants were divided into groups with each group going through each indicator within the disability framework. After discounting the challenges disability faces in each areas progress areas were identified, tactics for dealing with each listed, and a way forward defined in a planery session on the third day.

Links:
:: The ABBA Process

:: ONE Monitoring & Evaluation

:: The linakages of ABBA and NACC PWDs forums

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