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26 Medical and Charity models
which define disability as a sickness caused by curses or is the
responsibility of individuals living with impairment to make adjustments
to the perfect society. The charity model looks at disability
as an object of individual pity, people who cannot live independently
nor make independent decisions but needs handouts.
27 Barnes, Colin (1997) ‘Media Guidelines’
in Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media. Framed: Interrogating
the media. Pointon, Anne &Davis, Chris (Eds), British Film
Institute London, UK pg. 228-233.
28 Nora Ellen Groce, PHD in a Report Convened
by UNICEF 2005; Recommend 9, that most discriminations and violence
against people with disabilities is due to lack of expertise about
disability caused by ignorance and exclusion of people with disability
in mechanisms, programs and projects related to disability issues.
29 Nora Ellen Groce, PHD Report on Violence against
Disabled Children; Convened by UNICEF 2005; pg 20 of the abridged
version:
- Inclusion of people with disabilities in developing adjustment
initiatives.
- fostering increased awareness of violence against disabled people
within international, bilateral and NGO communities.
- National governments, regional authorities and local municipalities
must take leadership in ensuring that structures are accessible
to people with disabilities.
- Civic society must be at the forefront of public campaigns to
improve the livelihoods of individuals with disability and foster
inclusion a major component in the campaigns.
- There is need for oversight of administrators, professionals,
staff and volunteers and for a workable, comprehensive reporting
mechanism.
- The need for transparency in public oversight,
30 The Children’s ACT was
successfully implemented and mainstreamed within a short period
of time. A massive multiple - sector lobbing by various stakeholders,
an educated media, civil society, public and private sectors and
development partners.
31 PWD may need more skills and capacity to engage
various structures like the media, ECK and the judiciary. It begins
with stronger umbrella organizations with more democratic internal
structures. They also expect skills and resources to engage public
support for disability agenda.
32 The media bill 2007 proposed by the Ministry
of Information and Communication included a Media council with
14 members that included organizations like the United Disabled
People of Kenya (UDPK).
The selection of UDPK into the Media Council was not well debated
and public views of people with disabilities were never solicited.
Many opposed its inclusion on the grounds that the organization
is irrelevant to media supervision. Though the media has not built
effective engagement strategies with the disabilities community
yet discrimination is common.
33) Bomas
Draft Constitution Persons with disabilities Clause.
34) National Council of Persons
with Disabilities (NCPWD) is a quasi government agency under the
Ministry of Gender, Sports Culture and Social Services initiated
with the mandate to regulate, with following functions:
i) to develop programmes aimed at improving the conditions of
persons with disabilities.
ii) to issues orders requiring the adjustment of buildings that
are unfriendly for use by persons with disabilities.
iii) to carry out registration of PWDs, registration of institutions
that deal with disabilities and registration of places at which
services are offered.
iv) To implement measures intended to benefit PWDs; and raise
public awareness regarding PWDs. The functions of the NCPWDs are
guided by a) its strategic plan 2006-8 and the Government: National
Policy on persons with disabilities b).to guide government plans
on how to address the needs and aspirations of PWDs.
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