Disability is not Inability

:: Disability and the electoral process workshop.

"A disability manifesto that all political parties would promote and guide political advocacy of groups of people with disabilities is the only way to ensure effective participation in political arena" a workshop recently resolved.

Equal political participation of citizens with disability can and should be the objective of civic education in mordern Kenya. Participation however requires that specific groups be sensitized about ways of ensuring this participation turns into mainstreaming of the disability agenda.

Civic education led by persons with disabilities should target both those with disabilities and the general population. Mainstreaming disability manifesto needs mobilisation of majority votes for informed choices from all voters.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through a Civic education programme recently held a workshop called disability and the electoral process to look into ways of building linkages to improve capacity of disability people organisations to participate, lead and lobby adjustments in kenyan political arena.

The workshop held July 15th to 18th 2007 at a Nairobi Hotel, brought together various stakeholders and tackled various areas in the Electoral process from The Electoral Commision of Kenya (ECK) to Election Observers.

A resolution to come up with a disability manifesto that all political parties would promote and also help people with disabilities political advocasy was intitiated.

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