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Disability and Rehabilitation


NGO Statement to the 2002 CG Meeting

 

Final Draft of the NPRS

 

 

·          Disability and Rehabilitation should be one of the priority issues within the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of the RGC as well as Second Five-year Socio-economic Development Plan (SEDP II).

Included in the Action Plan matrix under “Social Protection” measures, though specific measures are not included in Chapter 4 of the text.

·          The government and donors should consider further increases and allocation of human and financial resources for the sector.

Not included.

·          Donor countries and institutions should check their policies on disability to ensure that policies relating to disability are actually implemented. Where no policies exist new ones should be formulated. 

Not included.

·          Government, donors, and service providers should insist that the needs of people with disabilities are considered as an integral part of all-planning programmes and projects and not viewed as a separate issue.

Mention of the needs of the disabled is included in the sections on gender, decentralization, landmines, and vulnerability, but not under health and education.

·           Additional and longer term funding should be further devoted to this sector so that comprehensive planning for the development and implementation of services can be created and implemented by government and NGOs in collaboration and co-operation.

Not included.

·          Multi-sectoral collaboration and co-operation efforts are needed to ensure the full integration of people with disabilities. A national co-ordinating body should be further promoted and supported by governments and donors. This will require addressing the lack of access to education, skills training, land, and credit that seems to be acute within communities. So, mainstreaming of people with disabilities into the existing programmes and services means that their natural place as an integral part of society is recognised. 

Not included.

·          The passage of the draft Cambodian Disability Law should be accelerated as part of the efforts to strengthen and protect the rights and interests of people with disabilities and to guarantee their full and equal participation in activities of community as other citizens.

 

Not included, though there is reference in the Action Plan Matrix (5.2.1.) to “dissemination of legislation concerning the disabled.”

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