From UN Convention to Social Invention
Civic participation
Completed
mazowieckie
Warszawa
2015-02-02 - 2016-03-31
244 662,72 PLN
219 662,72 PLN
disability
Project description
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is one of the most important documents on the disability-related issues. Poland’s ratification of the Convention opened space for dialogue about the new understanding of disability and treating it as a social phenomenon. However, as illustrated by the research and analyses conducted by the Commissioner for Human Rights and NGOs, the level of implementation of certain postulates of the Convention is far from perfect. This is due to low awareness and lack of sufficient knowledge among people with disabilities (PD) themselves, as well as in the institutions meant to support them. This situation requires two–pronged action and a broad impact. The main objective of the project was to reinforce the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the planned actions were to initiate effective public policies and strategies aimed at activating of people with disabilities at a local level. Eight Regional Coordinators for Persons with Disabilities were chosen, to actively participate in organising public consultations and workshop panels at the regional and district levels. The meetings concerned chosen articles of the Convention: Accessibility, Education, and Employment. During the meetings, representatives of local government units, NGOs and the PD community had an opportunity to exchange experiences and plan actions to provide solutions for the identified problems. The meetings constituted the basis for the “Recommendations of Regional Coordinators for Persons with Disabilities. Monitoring report on the implementation of chosen articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”. The document was distributed among units of local government, institutions and organisations, as well as other interested parties participating in the project. The outcomes of the project were presented during a conference, organised together with the Commissioner for Human Rights. The recipients of the actions were the NGOs, PD and representatives of local government.
We use the grant for capacity building