Sustainable Development and Persons with Disabilities: The Process of Self-Empowerment (ADF, 1995, 117 p.): Section I: Understanding and perception: Chapter 3: The enabling environment: SAPs, development and disability: Action guidelines

Sustainable Development and Persons with Disabilities: The Process of Self-Empowerment (ADF, 1995, 117 p.)

(introduction...)

About the author

Foreword

Abbreviations

Sources and acknowledgements

Section I: Understanding and perception

(introduction...)

Chapter 1: Introduction

Objectives of this guide

Who may use the guide

Language and liberation

Debate and discussion must continue

Chapter 2: An integrated approach to sustainable development for persons with disability

Chapter 3: The enabling environment: SAPs, development and disability

(introduction...)

Action guidelines

Appendix 1: Structural adjustment programme (SAP) - The experience of Zambia

Chapter 4: Community-based rehabilitation

(introduction...)

Practices in relation to the PWDs

What is CBR?

Case studies

A general assessment of CBR: Possibilities and limitations

Action guidelines

Section II: Building economic self-reliance

(introduction...)

Chapter 5: Building economic self-reliance

The importance of self-reliance

Employment options for PWDs

Group versus individually designed and managed IGPs

IGPs at the crossroads of gender and class

Action guidelines

Chapter 6: Income generating project planning

The importance of planning

The experience of a clothing manufacturing project run by a PWD organisation

Other lessons to learn from other experiences

Recommendations of the entebbe workshop

What is involved in successful planning

What kind of information is needed for planning?

What do we do with all this information?

Action guidelines

Chapter 7: Implementation and resource mobilisation

(introduction...)

Sustainability

Resource mobilisation

Running an enterprise

Some case studies of projects run by PWDs

Action guidelines

Appendix 1: Revolving loan scheme (RLS)

Appendix 2: The Entebbe workshop resolution con RLS

Chapter 8: Monitoring and evaluation: Measuring the success of IGPs

(introduction...)

Monitoring

Evaluation

Methodology of monitoring and evaluation

Action guidelines

Chapter 9: Capacity building: Skills training and institution building

(introduction...)

Empowerment

The pedagogy of disability training

Women with disabilities and capacity building for IGPs

Action guidelines

Section III: Lobbying, networking and building alliances

(introduction...)

Chapter 10: Strategies for lobbying, networking and building alliances

PWDs are their own principal change agents

Lobbying, advocacy and networking

Broad alliances

Action guidelines

Notes and references

(introduction...)

ADF board of directors

Action guidelines

A. For Persons with Disability

They must:

· Understand that they are first and foremost their own redeemers.

· Analyse the specific barriers to their advancement in their own concrete situations.

· Not rely too much on government. However, they must try to understand the dynamics of Structural Adjustment Programmes, and how the Social Dimensions Fund operates to cushion the effects of SAP, to be able to take advantage of it.

· Network with other grassroots organizations to brainstorm about alternatives to SAPs as a way of developing the national economies.

· Lobby the government for their legitimate rights in general with the rest of the population, for often they are deprived of these general rights.

· Analyse the situation of those amongst them who might be even more marginalised on account of their sex. age and disability. They must help create equalising opportunities for women and children and people with marginalised disabilities.

B. For the Government

The government should:

On matters of policy and Legislation:

· Take affirmative action, especially on education and job placements, including, where possible, subsidies to employers who employ people with disabilities

· Provide concessionary loans to PWDs and caters of people with severe disabilities to start income generating projects

· Recognise the right of children with disabilities to attend mainstream schools

· Provide subsidies to families with disabled persons (children/adults).

On information and referral facilities:

· Provide facilities for the PWDs to acquire simple (and in local languages) practical yet comprehensive information about matters that concern PWDs

· Provide adequate extension backup and referral services

On appropriate aids for PWDs:

· Subsidise the production of appropriate aids
· Remove taxes on imported appropriate aids
· Help with the procurement of equipment and machinery needed in IGPs (eg for agriculture)

On empowering local authorities:

Since most of the activities of concern to PWDs take place at the local level, the central government should empower local authorities and line ministries with authority and resources to facilitate PWD-sensitive programmes.

C. For the Community

The community should:

· Promote and facilitate the participation of PWDs in joint ventures
· Take affirmative action on developing positive attitudes towards PWDs

D. For the NGOs

The (NGOs) should:

· Establish programmes in consultation with PWDs on the basis of assessed needs
· Ensure sustainability of PWD programmes
· Decentralise decision-making
· Promote dialogue with project beneficiaries.

Some Areas of Further Debate

Does the Structural Adjustment Programme really provide an answer to the economic problems we face? What other alternatives do we have?

In what particular areas of Government action is a policy of "positive discrimination" in favour of the PWDs justified?

In what ways is African culture a disenabling factor for women and children? Should WWDs join with mainstream women's movements to fight for their general rights, or should they form their own separate organizations?