mainstreaming disability p. p p. stephen, ircds. mainstream side stream your boat what if you are in...
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Mainstreaming Disability
P. P P. Stephen , IRCDS
Mainstream
Side stream
Your Boat
What if you are in the Mainstream?
What if you are in the Side stream?
WHAT IS MAINSTREAMING?
“Mainstreaming is about building disability into existing agendas, frameworks and processes”.
“Mainstreaming is a method to promote inclusion and to address the barriers that exclude persons with disability from full and
equal participation in society”.
WHY MAINSTREAM DISABILITY?
Mainstreaming is essential if we want to tackle the exclusion of disabled people.
Inclusive services: Supporting basic services to include disabled people.
It’s a matter of Rights: Mainstreaming is essentially a question of rights. Everyone, including every disabled person, has the same fundamental human rights, such as the right to life, to information, to freedom of movement, to education, to family life, to decent work and to a voice in decisions that affect them.
How to approach
mainstreaming? Mainstreaming is an ongoing process of
including disability into all our work.
Mainstreaming starts with us. We can all be role models of more equitable and inclusive relationships between disabled and non-disabled people.
Mainstreaming Model
1. Organizational commitment 2. Sensitization Process 3. Programme mainstreaming 4. Policy mainstreaming 5.Workplace mainstreaming
1. Organizational Commitment
Management support is essential
to allow adjustments to organizational policies and processes
Develop an understanding of the situation of disabled women & girls and men & boys.
2. Sensitization process
is the process of building people’s personal engagement with, and commitment to, disability.
is staff becoming personally engaged with their organization’s commitment to mainstreaming.
without our individual commitment, there can be no mainstreaming.
4. Programme Mainstreaming
is to include persons with disabilities in our programme planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and documentation processes.
4.Policy Mainstreaming
is to address wider policy and institutional barriers that exclude persons with disabilities from equal participation.
we need to engage with policy as well as practice.
5.Work Place Mainstreaming
appropriate adjustments is in our own workplaces.
Workplace mainstreaming is about creating an inclusive, barrier-free workplace where disabled people can participate equally.
appropriate policies and procedures and ensuring that other employees treat disabled people equitably, with dignity and respect.
ngo NGO level
Develop Disability Policy /strategy paper on disability.
All the existing and future programmes/ projects should have the disability inclusiive
Include the component of PWDs in the existing monthly/Qty/HY reporting formats
One of agenda for EC & staff meeting could be mainstreaming disability
Good Practices
Good Practices
----% Reservation for PWDs in EC/GB ----% reservation for PWDs in new staff
recruitment Orient all the EC/GB Members & staff on
disability perspective Orient the stakeholders including Govt.,
churches , Donors/ funding agencies on the needs of PWDs and MS strategies.
Get the information under RTI to ensure the utilisation of 3 % funds for PWDs in Government schemes.
Networking/alliance building with DPOs & other NGOs, Churches etc
Mainstreaming at Project level
SlProject Name Scope for
mainstreaming Process to be
followedChallenges
faced/for seen
Overcome
Program level
1
2
3
Organizational level- Workplace level
Comprehensive Approach
Disability
Specific
Services
Disability
related
Skills
Inclusive
Development
Peoples‘
Attitudes
Legislation
& Rights
Empower
that includes PWDs in the mainstream as equal partners
[email protected] August 2012
that does not side stream PWDs