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Disability Component

Project objectives

Enhancing livelihood opportunities and Quality of Life for Persons with Disabilities(PWDs) and their families

Ensure optimum utilization of residual abilities by PWDs Improve capacities of PWDs to access and avail various entitlements and services offered

by the government

Mainstreaming disability concerns in policy making and line activities

Project area

78 mandals Intensive Interventions in selected mandals of 22 districts in the state.Objectives of these interventions are to evolve a model of institutional relationship betweenCBOs of PWDs and various government and non-government stakeholders and make them

as resource mandals to replicate the same throughout the state.

50 mandals with intensive interventions for Institution Building and livelihood and nonintensive support for ATR services.

Key Interventions

Social mobilisation and Institution Building of PWDs and their caregivers.

Provision of Livelihood support Community based Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation services Promoting convergence with line departments particularly Health and Education for

inclusive frameworks

Institution Building (IB)

Formation of exclusive Self Help Groups (SHGs) and Federations at mandal level throughthe following activities

Selection, training and positioning of CDWs, CCs, APMs, DPMs and Disabilityfacilitators

Identification and mobilisation of PWDs in to SHGs Federating all SHGs of PWDs as Mandala Vikalangula Samakhya (MVS) at Mandal

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Capacity Building through Facilitation support and trainings to SHGs and MVSs on Disability Awareness,

Institutional and financial management, Book keeping, Persons with Disabilities(PWD) Act, etc.

Functional linkages with Village Organisation (VO) and Mandala Mahila Samakhya(MMS) through Enrolment of SHGs of PWDs in to VO Maintaining separate bank accounts of MVS for Institution and Human Capacity

Building (IHCB) and Community Investment Fund (CIF) of PWDs by MMS

Periodic interaction and coordination between MMS and MVS

Achievements (Cumulative up to 31.03.2009)

No of Disability Programme mandals 128 No of SHGs (PWD) formed 7,695 No of persons with disability mobilized into groups 80,901 No of Mandala Vikalangula Samkhyas formed - 128 No of Zilla Vikalangula Samakhya formed - 2

AT&R Services

Ensuring access to all basic entitlements to PWDs as per the PWD Act by Conducting certification and multipurpose camps at mandal level

Improving or retaining the existing residual ability through Assessment and surgical correction camps at mandal and district levels Prescription of and facilitating access to suitable aids and appliances Provision of nutritious food for malnourished or undernourished PWDs

Improving access to service providers by Capacity building of CBOs of PWDs to organise required arrangements and access

them on their own

Collaborating with technical institutions like the National Institute for the MentallyHandicapped (NIMH), local hospitals and concerned NGOs

Improving ADL skills of Persons with Severe Disabilities through Therapy trainings to persons with mental retardation, speech, hearing and orthopedic

disabilities and their caregivers Community Mental Health camps for Persons with mental illness


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Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation Services in Disability Programme Mandals

(Cumulative up to 31.03.2009)

S.No Item

1 Total no of PWDs identified 97,8712 Total no of PWDs provided with Certificates 87,558

3 % of PWDs provided with certificates 89%

4 No. of PWDs undergone detailed assessment 56,727

5 No of PWDs provided with Assistive devices 18,174

6 No of PWDs availed surgical corrections 2,782

Livelihoods

Reduction of poverty impact of disability on PWDs and their families through Financial support from the Community Investment Fund (CIF) for various livelihoodactivities performed by PWDs or their family members in the case of Persons with

Severe Disabilities or children with disabilities

Revolving Fund, Matching Grants etc. Participatory and collective identification of needs and priorities via Micro Credit

Planning (MCP) process

Promoting Financial inclusion of SHGs of PWDs for improved access to credit by Improving creditworthiness of CBOs of PWDs Advocacy with banks for providing loans to SHGs of PWDs

Details of Livelihood support in Disability Mandals (Cumulative up to 31.03.2009)

S.No Source In Rs.

Lakhs

1 Revolving Fund (in Rs. Lakhs) 300.20

2 Bank Linkage (in Rs. Lakhs) 956.50

3 Community Investment Fund MCP(in Rs. Lakhs) 2859.00

Total (in Rs. Lakhs) 4115.70


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Qualitative impact and changes perceived by the community

Through sample Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and open discussions with the community and

project functionaries the following trends are revealed in pilot mandals.

Improved access to government institutions and services offered by the government likecertificates and other entitlements

Unlike earlier, due to easy access to credit via SHGs, many PWDs are pursuing educationalof different levels

Support for suitable livelihoods made them self reliant and their families are also benefitingfrom their contribution

Improved Self respect and confidence among PWDs Reduced social discrimination Increased awareness among the neighbourhood on disability and PWDs Differentiation of the problems faced by mild, moderate and severely disabled persons by

the PWDs and wider community

Identification of educational problems of Persons with Severe Disabilities and expressionof demand to address them

Women with disabilities are recognised as the most vulnerable among all by PWDs andother community members

MVSs are able to articulate issues concerning PWDs collectively

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