Disability is not Inability

:: Disability Policy Advocacy

The Advocacy Programme includes various projects with the objective not only of increasing visibility of the disability community but also mainstreaming disability in Policy programming.

Disability faces various challenges in relation to implementation of adjustments necessary to create access for Persons with disabilities. Though there is an enacted ACt of parliament Persons with Disabilities ACT 2004 There is nothing that has been achieved three years on except establishment of the National Council for Persons with Disabilites (NCPWD).

Various stakeholders have been pushing for various policies that would not only implement the ACT but also include PWDs into government resources allocations. Yet not much has been forthcoming in terms of resource allocations to implement various mandates as policy directives express. Further certain sections of the ACT have faced direct resistance due it their conflicting nature with other government objectives. (The Tax Exemptions section verses Government Revenue Targets).

This scenerio essentially emanates from the fact that quite alot of the policy makers do not understand or appreciate disability. Secondly, the sector has not built effective internal structures for lobbing or advocacy mechanisms that would express its political relevance. Third, government resource allocation until recently was done strictly on terms other than equity and fairness. Making disability count in the national budget has therefore neither been achieved nor planned.

An effective disability Policy advocacy demands first and foremost an understanding of how the system works. Many of the leadership in the disability community do not has access nether do they know how to lobby for what should essentially be their rights. Recent attempts to improve internal structures have started building within HIV/AIDS with the research based capacity building policy programmes by the Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN). There is need for more especially considering that the National Council for Persons with disabilties (NCPWD) being a quasi-government agency may not have the relevant teeth.


:: Policy Projects.

:: active participant in HIV/AIDs policy strategies

:: Active participant in advocay programming.

:: Activive partcipant in various Policy Awareness debates.

:: Policy advocacy and awareness on the Website.


:: Policy Advocacy Areas

:: Education Policy Advocacy

:: Health Policy Advocacy

:: ICT Policy Advocacy

:: Political participation Policies.

:: Economic Partcipation Policies.




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