agencies are achieving in their work and how. Additionally, on 13th December 2006, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This has been adopted and ratified throughout the world, including by the majority of countries in Africa, as the guiding principles from which they assist their disabled communities. In practice, the progress of the CRPD has been patchy. However, it does appear to have influenced the development of the SDGs (see Handout 11 below). It has also increased the promotion of, what has become known as, a Rights Based Approach to Disability. This is based around a ‘social’ model of disability, rather than the more traditional ‘medical’ or ‘charitable’ models. People come to the subject of disability from a number of different backgrounds. For example, you may be a doctor who specialises in working with disabling conditions. Alternatively, you may be a therapist a Physiotherapist, an Occupational Therapist or a Speech and LanguageTherapist – whose role is to assist disabled people in their functioning. Most importantly though, you may be a disabled person, who is wanting to live their life alongside their friends and family in the community. We welcome you whatever your background but ask you to respect that the focus of today is how we can include disabled people as equal and participating members of our activities. Enjoy the day and have fun but be ready to be challenged. Agenda for the day Disability Inclusive Training 21ST 2017 10:00 am: Arrival/Registration/Coffee 10:30am: Welcome from Hub Africa – Fadhili Magiya 10:35am: Introductions/Icebreaker. Activity with Kangas - Susannah Kimani 10:50am: Personal Experience of disability. Group Activity - Sian Tesni 11:00 am: Introduction to Disability - Different Approaches. Interactive session - Paul Lindoewood & Hilary Williams (Summing up with Disability Rights) e.g.
Activities ‘fix’ disabled person, who is ‘sick’, so they can join ‘normal’ society • Disability is a problem in the person • A traditional understanding of disability • Focuses on a person’s impairment as the obstacle • to ‘cure’ or ‘improve’ individuals to ‘fit’ them into society • Defines the disabled person only as a patient with medical needs • Segregates disabled people from the mainstream • Offers only medical help, carried out by specialists • Expensive, tends to benefit relatively few Handout 2: Individual Models Charity Approach Society Disabled People
People who make these judgements treat the disabled person as superfluous or superhuman. They either fail to respond to the individual – with all their inherent personality, strengths and weaknesses – or they assume they have ‘superhuman’ abilities to cope with their impairment. Non-disabled people can respond with fear, pity, repulsion, or a sense of superiority. These assumptions and emotions are reinforced by the media. Negative language reflects and can reinforce prejudices. Disabled people wish to change the language used by non-disabled people about them – especially language that is offensive and inaccurate. Environmental Disabled people encounter these barriers in areas such as: • Public transport • Hospitals and clinics • Schools and housing • and marketplaces • Offices and factories • Places of worship • Media and communications • Public information systems Most people think of the physical barriers in this category – e.g. a health clinic is inaccessible for wheelchair users if it has steps and narrow doorways. It’s relatively easy to identify these – in consultation with disabled people – once aware. But communications can also be disabling for those with sensory impairments – e.g. for Deaf people if there’s no sign language; for those with visual impairments if medication isn’t appropriately labeled. Poor communication can have devastating results where important education campaigns happen (e.g. HIV and AIDS). Students with hearing, visual or intellectual impairments are unlikely to access vital information unless their access needs have been met. And since 98 per cent of disabled children in developing countries don’t attend school, they’ll miss out on important education and information. A Ugandan study found 38
Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD) West Africa Federation of Persons with Disabilities (WAFOD) National DPO Federations/Networks: Algeria – Fédération Nationale Algérienne des Personnes Handicapées (FNAPH) Angola – Associacâo Nacional de Deficientes Angolanos (ANDA) Benin – Fédération des Associations des Personnes Handicapées du Bénin (FAPHB) Botswana – Botswana Federation of the Disabled (BOFOD) Burkina Faso – Fédération Burkinabé des Associations des Personnes Handicapées (FEBAH) Burundi – Union des Personnes Handicapées du Burundi Cameroon – Plateforme Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities Chad – Union Nationale des Associations des Personnes Handicapées du Tchad Brazzaville – Union Nationale des Associations des Personnes Handicapées du Congo (UNHACO) Equatorial Guinea – ASSONAMI Ethiopia – Federation of Ethiopian National Associations of Persons with Disabilities (FENAPD) – Fédération Nationale des Associations des Personnes Handicapées du Gabon (FNAPHG) Gambia – Gambia Federation of the Disabled (GFD) – Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) Guinea – Fédération Guinéen des Associations de/pour les personnes handicapées (FEGUIPAH) Ivory Coast – Confédération des Organisations des Personnes Handicapées de Cote d’Ivoire (COPHCI) Kenya – United Disabled Persons of Kenya (UDPK) Lesotho – Lesotho National Federation of Organizations of the Disabled Malawi – Federation of Disability Organizations of Malawi (FEDOMA) Mali – Fédération Malienne des Associations de Personnes Handicapées (FEMAPH)