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Regional Workshop on Comprehensive National Plan of Action
on Disability - Towards the Mid-point Review of the Biwako Millennium
Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based
Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF) |
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Materials :
Basic Documents :Questionnaire on the implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF)This questionnaire on the implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF) is an attempt to receive feedback on the current progress in the implementation of the BMF priority areas and strategies from governments and NGOs in the region. The responses to the questionnaire will assist us in developing a set of baseline data and indicators to measure BMF achievements for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012. You are kindly requested to complete and return the form as soon as possible but no later than 30 June 2005 to: Ms Kay Nagata, Social Affairs Officer Should you wish to utilize an on-line format, you are welcome to do so by accessing our Web site at http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/disability/index.asp Please provide information about the respondent. Country: ___________________________________________________________ Ministry/Department/Organization: ________________________________________________ Contact person/Focal point: Mr/Ms _______________________________________________ Title: _____________________________________________________ Telephone No: ___________________________________________________________ Fax No: ___________________________________________________________ E-mail address: ___________________________________________________________ Website of your Ministry/Department/organization: ___________________________________ Mailing address: ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Date of your response: __________/_____________/____________ (Date) (Month) (Year) Please answer each of the following questions. I. National commitment for disability mattersNational mechanism1-a. Do you have any national coordination mechanism on disability in your country? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 1-b. If “yes” in 1-a., please indicate: Name of the mechanism (__________________________________________________) Year of establishment (________________________________________________________) Number of members in the mechanism(_____________________________________________) Composition of the mechanism (__________________________________________________) Name of the focal point (__________________________________________________) Annual budget allocated for the mechanism, if any (___________________________________ ) 1-c. If “no” in 1-a., please indicate a focal point for disability matters in your country. _____________________________________________________________ National plan of action2-a. Do you have any national plan of action concerning the BMF implementation? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 2-b. If “yes” in 2-a., please attach a copy (or indicate a website for an electronic copy) and indicate: Name of the action plan (__________________________________________________) Year of enactment (__________________________________________________) Brief description of the plan (including duration covered by the plan)
Annual budget allocated to implement the plan
2-c. Please indicate areas covered by the action plan (check all that apply): Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and related family and parent associations ( ) Women with disabilities ( ) Early detection, early intervention and education ( ) Training and employment, including self-employment ( ) Access to built environments and public transport ( ) Access to information and communications, including information, communication and assistive technologies ( ) Poverty alleviation through capacity-building, social security and sustainable livelihood programme ( ) Human rights of persons with disabilities ( ) Community-based approach (i.e., C.B.R) ( ) Data collection ( ) Public awareness ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ Actions to implement the BMF3-a. Is a translation of the BMF in your native language available in your country? If yes, please attach a copy (or indicate a website for an electronic copy). Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being translated ( ) 3-b. Please indicate other actions taken so far to promote and implement the targets and strategies of the BMF (check all that apply): National decree/directive on BMF implementation ( ) Development of a national year of disabled persons ( ) Development of a national decade of disabled persons ( ) Events/publications to promote public awareness ( ) Establishment of subregional mechanism to implement the BMF ( ) Increase in the budget allocated to disability matters (please specify the percentage increase in the amount of allocation) _________________________ Increase in the number of government personnel assigned to disability matters (please specify the number) ____________________________________________ Establishment/amendment of laws (please specify) _______________________________________________________ Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 4. Please briefly describe a significant example indicating your country’s commitment to BMF implementation.
II. Mainstreaming of disability issues in policy5. Please indicate your country’s policy that includes concerns of persons with disabilities in any of the following areas (check all that apply): Economic and social development ( ) Education and training ( ) Poverty reduction ( ) Employment ( ) Transportation ( ) Infrastructure access ( ) Information and communication technology ( ) Medical treatment (including rehabilitation and early intervention) ( ) Gender ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ III. LegislationInternational convention for persons with disabilities6. Does your government support the work of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, which was established by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 56/168 of 19 December 2001 to consider proposals for a proposed international convention on disability? Yes ( ) No ( ) No position ( ) Constitution7-a. Does your constitution include any articles on disability? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 7-b. If “yes” in 7-a., please attach a copy (or indicate a website for an electronic copy) and indicate: Relevant article number(s) (_________________________________________________) Year of enactment/amendment (_________________________________________________) Brief characterization of the articles
Integration of disability concerns8. Has your government integrated concerns of persons with disabilities into any of the following generic laws (check all that apply)?: Anti-discrimination law ( ) Education ( ) Employment ( ) Health ( ) Information and technology ( ) Building and housing ( ) Transportation ( ) Poverty alleviation ( ) Social security ( ) Gender ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ Sectoral laws for persons with disabilities9-a. Does your government have any disability-specific sectoral laws in any one or more of categories below? Please attach a copy or indicate a website for an electronic copy (check all that apply): Education (i.e., special education law) ( ) Employment (i.e., quota scheme or/and employment promotion law) ( ) Rehabilitation (i.e., CBR) ( ) Health (i.e., early intervention law) ( ) Information and technology (i.e., accessible ICT) ( ) Building code (i.e., accessible standards) ( ) Transportation (i.e., accessibility law) ( ) Poverty alleviation ( ) Social security/social welfare(i.e., disability pension) ( ) Others (please specify) ________________________________________________ 9-b. Please indicate disability areas covered by the laws you chose in “9-a” (check all that apply): Disability areas: Physical disabilities ( ) Visual impairment ( ) Hearing impairment ( ) Intellectual disabilities ( ) Psychiatric disabilities ( ) Others (please specify) _________________________________________________ Please provide us an example of coverage( i.e., employment promotion law for physically and visually disabled persons only).
Comprehensive law for persons with disabilities10-a. Do you have any comprehensive disability law? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 10-b. If “yes” in 10-a., please attach a copy (or indicate a website for an electronic copy) and indicate: Name of the law (________________________________________________________) Year of enactment/amendment (__________________________________________________) 10-c. If “yes” in 10-a., please indicate areas that the comprehensive law for persons with disabilities covers (check all that apply): Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and related family and parent associations ( ) Women with disabilities ( ) Early detection, early intervention and education ( ) Training and employment, including self-employment ( ) Access to built environments and public transport ( ) Access to information and communications, including information, communication and assistive technologies ( ) Poverty alleviation through capacity-building, social security and sustainable livelihood programme ( ) Human rights of persons with disabilities ( ) Community-based approach (i.e., C.B.R) ( ) Data collection ( ) Public awareness ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________
Disability-specific anti-discrimination law11-a. Do you have any disability-specific anti-discrimination law? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 11-b. If “yes” in 11-a., please attach a copy (or indicate a website for an electronic copy) and indicate: Name of the law (_________________________________________________) Year of the enactment/amendment (_______________________________________________) Brief characterization of the law
11-c. What are the enforcement mechanisms of the comprehensive and sectoral laws you indicated above? (check all that apply): Filing complaint ( ) Administrative hearing ( ) Investigation of a case ( ) Judicial procedure ( ) Penalty for failure to comply ( ) Others (please specify) __________________________________________________ Participation of persons with disabilities12. Please indicate whether your government has established any mechanism to include persons with disabilities in either or both of the below (check all that apply): (a) Formulation or monitoring of any of the above-mentioned laws ( ) (b) Process of elaborating a proposed international convention on disability ( ) Brief description of mechanism
IV. Disability statistics available for planning purposes13. What collection vehicles do your government use for collecting disability statistics? Registers ( ) Population censuses ( ) Sample surveys ( ) Others (please specify) __________________________________________________ 14. What government agency or ministry is the main data collector? (please indicate name and address)
15. Are the following main categories of data available in your country by sex (check all that apply): Total population of disabled persons disaggregated - by categories of disability ( ) - by age ( ) - by rural/urban residence ( ) - by level of education ( ) - by employment status ( ) - by types of employment ( ) - by income categories ( ) 16. For what year(s) are the above data available?
17. In 2001 your government endorsed the new International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) from the World Health Organization, has it been applied yet? Yes ( ) No ( ) For some applications ( ) 18. Does your government use the Guidelines and Principles for the Development of Disability Statistics issued by the UN in 2001? Yes ( ) No ( ) For some applications ( ) 19. What is the prevalence of disability in your country? Percentage: ________________________________________________________ Source: ___________________________________________________________ 20. What is the current definition of disability used in your country for purposes of data collection?
V. BMF priority areas1. Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and related family and parent associations21-a. Do you have any national cross-disability self-help organizations? Yes ( ) No ( ) 21-b. If “yes” in 21-a., please indicate: Name of the organization (_______________________________________________________) Year of establishment (_______________________________________________________) Name and contact address of the focal point ________________________________________
21-c. Please indicate the types of support provided by your government for self-help organizations (check all that apply): Financial assistance ( ) In-kind donation ( ) Preferred contract with the organization ( ) Provision of human resources ( ) Tax-exemption ( ) Others (please specify) ____________________________________________________ 2. Women with disabilities22. Please indicate types of support your government provides for mainstreaming and development of women with disabilities (check all that apply): Affirmative action for women with disabilities (please specify where) ___________________________________________________ Development of network of women with disabilities ( ) Inclusion of women with disabilities in a policy coordinating mechanism on women ( ) Promotion of women with disabilities in national women’s organization ( ) Provision of leadership training ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 3. Early detection, early intervention and education23. Does your government have disability prevention services within overall health programmes? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 24. Does your government provide any early detection and intervention services? Yes, both ( ) Only detection services ( ) Only intervention services ( ) Neither ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 25. Does your government provide rehabilitation services? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 26. Does your government have CBR services? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 27. Please indicate forms of education your government support for children with disabilities (check all that apply): Inclusive education ( ) Education in separate and specialized institutions ( ) Both ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 4. Training and employment, including self-employment 28. Do you have any vocational rehabilitation and employment services for persons with disabilities? Are they in specialized institution and/or as a part of mainstream institutions? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) Specialized institutions ( ) Mainstream institutions ( ) 29. Please indicate all forms of work/employment your government promotes for persons with disabilities(check all that apply): Open employment ( ) Sheltered employment ( ) Supported employment ( ) Social enterprises ( ) Self-employment ( ) Others (please specify) __________________________________________________ 30-a. Please indicate the measures used by your government aimed at promoting employment of persons with disabilities (check all that apply): Anti-discrimination measures ( ) Cost subsidy for personal and technical supports (i.e, personal assistant, sign language interpreters, job coach) ( ) Quota scheme ( ) Micro credit/small grant for self-employment ( ) Preferential access to specific jobs ( ) Vocational guidance (i.e, job search training, information provision) ( ) Preferential contract to products/services by persons with disabilities ( ) Reasonable adaptations (i.e, physical accessibility of work place, job/training redesign) ( ) Tax exemption ( ) Wage subsidies ( ) Trial employment ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 30-b. If “yes” for quota scheme in 30-a., please indicate if the scheme applies the following (check all that apply): Levy for failure to satisfy the quota ( ) Incentives for employers (i.e, tax credits) ( ) Enforcement mechanism for failure to pay levy ( ) Public dissemination of information on non-compliance ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 31. Has your country ratified ILO convention 159 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) 1983 Yes ( )(please indicate the year of ratification) _______________________________ No ( ) 5. Access to built environments and public transport 32-a. Do you have any accessibility standards for public facilities, infrastructure and transport? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) 32-b. If “yes” in 32 -a., please indicate: Name of the standards (__________________________________________________) Year of enactment (__________________________________________________) Brief description of the standards
33. Please indicate measures taken by your government to implement accessibility for physical environment and transport (check all that apply): Subsidy for accessibility renovation ( ) Award given to accessible structure ( ) Inclusion of Universal Design concept in professional course in landscape, architecture and engineering ( ) Others (please specify) ____________________________________________________ 6. Access to information and communications, including information, communication and assistive technologies 34. Please indicate the measure taken in your country to promote access to information, communications, including information and communication and assistive technologies (check all that apply): Establishment of national law/the guidelines/standards on information accessibility ( ) Computer-literacy training and capacity building for persons with disabilities ( ) Dissemination of public information in accessible format ( ) Establishment of ICT accessibility focal point ( ) Standardized sign language ( ) Unified Braille Code at the national level ( ) Closed/open captioning on TV ( ) Incentives for buying accessible computers/assistive technology ( ) Others (please specify) __________________________________________________ 7. Poverty alleviation through capacity-building, social security and sustainable livelihood programmes 35. Please indicate all actions taken by your government to alleviate poverty experienced by persons with disabilities (check all that apply:) Programmes targeted at rural persons with disabilities ( ) Implementation of social protection schemes ( i.e., provision of health insurance/subsidy) ( ) Development of self-help organizations in rural and poor urban areas ( ) Employment promotion ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 36. Does your government have community-oriented approach towards rehabilitation, training and overall empowerment of persons with disabilities? Yes ( ) No ( ) Currently being developed ( ) Technical cooperation 37-a. What types of technical cooperation would your government be interested in providing and / or receiving in implementing the BMF priority areas and strategies? Please indicate all that apply: Modality of technical cooperation: Provide Receive Financial contribution ( ) ( ) Human resource contribution ( ) ( ) Technology transfer ( ) ( ) Provision of training/capacity building ( ) ( ) Disability impact assessment ( ) ( ) Disability mainstreaming into a project ( ) ( ) Disability budgeting ( ) ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ 37-b. Which area of technical cooperation would your government be interested in providing and/or receiving? Please indicate all that apply: Provide Receive Rehabilitation ( ) ( ) Education ( ) ( ) Housing ( ) ( ) Accessibility ( ) ( ) Employment ( ) ( ) Information and communication ( ) ( ) Policy formulation ( ) ( ) Others (please specify) ___________________________________________________ Open-ended question 38. Please use a space below if you would like to describe significant examples of progress made on the BMF implementation or to make any further comment on any matter.
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