Disability and Rehabilitation
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NGO
Statement to the 2002 CG Meeting |
Final
Draft of the NPRS |
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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. |
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The government and donors should consider further increases
and allocation of human and financial resources for the sector. |
Not included. |
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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.
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Not included. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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Not included. |
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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.” |