Monitored by CINDC.

Monitoring reported by CINDC and IntAff every 2 years.

• Change is not monitored and reported on and accurate data not gathered;
• Lack of awareness in the wider community of rights and disability issues;
• No commitment to developing and improving rehabilitation and support services;
• People with disability and caregivers not actively involved in policy and programme development;
• Lack of early intervention strains Health and Education resources;
• Barriers preventing full inclusion of people with disabilities not recognised and addressed;
• People with disabilities given few independent livelihood opportunities;
• Lack of a coordinated response nationally.

Rights information published;

Rights publications available;

Legislation acknowledging rights of PWDs.

• Lack of support for island committees;
• Lack of accurate information on disability incidence and disability issues;
• Lack of awareness / understanding on rights in outer islands;
• Lack of legislation ensuring protection of rights

Public Health nurses reporting;

• Insufficient awareness within island councils and administrations;
• Lack of knowledge on how to consult;

Groups consulted by island and central govt administrations / agencies;

Reporting procedures agreed with island and central govt agencies & administrations

Island councils and central govt agree to mandatory reporting requirements on consultation strategies.

• Lack of support for self-help groups;
• Lack of information and confidence of members of self-help groups;
• Lack of training opportunities for groups;
• Grass roots membership not encouraged in local communities;
• Lack of a national forum.

GAD Division of IntAff and NCW target women and girls with disabilities.

NCW includes disabilities in work programme.

• Lack of data;
• lack of community awareness on vulnerability of girls and women with disabilities;
• lack of support from health, welfare and police;
• GAD Division and NCW not aware of women and disability issues and do not collaborate with IntAff DO or CINDC.

Vocational training policy to include youths and adults with disabilities.

Vocational training policy published.

• Special needs education policy not implemented;
• Lack of vocational training policy for youths and others with disabilities;
• Lack of resources within MOE to support SNE;
• Lack of resources to support vocational training;
• Lack of skills amongst primary and other teachers on SNE;
• Disabilities not addressed as part of EFA reporting.

• Lack of policy and strategy to guide human and financial resources within Health and Education;
• Lack of knowledge amongst “frontline” health and education personnel;
• Lack of record keeping by “front line” health and education personnel;

Work place safety records where available.

• Lack of community and employer awareness of risks and impact of practices;
• Lack of resources to develop information packs for employers on work place safety;
• Lack of awareness and commitment by enforcement agencies (Police and IntAff Labour and consumer Affairs Div).

Rehab policy developed by MOH;

Rehab policy published by MOH;

Reporting by Island Committees

• Lack of data on needs for rehab;
• Rehabilitation not an integral part of community heatlh services;
• Existing rehab and assistive services not accessible by the most vulnerable, especially those in remote areas;
• Not integrated into national healthcare programme and therefore vulnerable to resource constraints and cuts;
• PWDs not consulted on rehab policy and services;
• Lack of awareness by local island administrations and health personnel of rehab needs;
• Local cultural skills/resources overlooked.

• Lack of data on demand for assistive services;
• Delivery of assistive devices not integrated into health system and rehabilitation services;
• Lack of skills to develop appropriate assistive devices;
• Lack of financial resources to import/purchase;

Training conducted for MOW;

Training completed

• Technical details on access engineering and design requirements not available;
• Not included in revised building code;
• Lack of awareness in MOW;
• Lack of employees understanding to assist access of PWDs.

Workshops for PWDs on micro-credit and business development

Report from IntAff on Small business and credit workshops targeting PWDs.

• Lack of awareness of income generation activities in the wider community and amongst micro-credit advisers and lenders;
• Lack of small business development skills for PWDs;
• Lack of national employment policy promoting equal employment/access rights;
• Lack of reliable data on employment.

Education data;

Health data;

Education and Health publications;

CINDC agrees on national definition of “disability.”

• Data not made available and not utilised in policy development processes.
• PWDs not consulted on information/data requirements;
• Lack of a nationally accepted definition of “disability;”

Awareness / education programme developed targeting carers.

• Lack of information on disability, particularly in the outer islands;
• Community health workers fail to monitor needs;

Annual report from IntAff

Annual meeting of CINDC

• National Policy not promulgated and/or agreed;
• Lack of consultation on Draft National Policy;
• Lack of monitoring of progress with policy implementation;
• No clear national umbrella arrangements representing NGOs and wider community interests.

• Regular communication established with Outer Islands committees by CINDC;
• IntAff gather and collate data from key govt agencies and disseminate to Island Councils and central govt Ministries and Divisions (especially OIA);
• IntAff and CINDC to hold a series of “rights and disability” workshops in outer islands and nationally.
• Policy reviewed and Legislation drafted.

CINDC

Attorney General

IntAff annual reporting;

Disability data and issues an integral part of OIA reporting;

Legislation drafted.

• communications / travel budget limits contact with outer islands;
• Lack of support within island councils and administrations, govt agencies and wider community for disability issues;
• Inconsistent monitoring;
• Lack of government support for legislation.

• Awareness raising programme developed by CINDC and IntAff targeting island councils and administrations;
• OIA develops public consultation strategy framework for Island councils;
• Ministries, other government agencies and island local governments include disability in their policies, programmes and activities.

CINDC

IntAff

CINDC meetings and reporting;

IntAff reporting

Published policies include reference to disability and PWDs and stakeholders consulted.

• No clear priorities to guide programme because policy not widely accepted;
• Lack of communications budget;
• Lack of commitment and awareness of Ministries, other government agencies and outer island governments.

• IntAff actively supports self-help groups;
• IntAff disseminates information to members of self-help groups;
• Training programme developed for self-help groups by CINDC and IntAff;
• CINDC and IntAff develop awareness raising programme for local/village communities on disability rights issues;
• CINDC becomes national forum and umbrella group for disability;

NGOs

Churches

IntAff

CINDC

IntAff consultation with NGOs, church groups and Island commitees

• lack of support for self-help groups;
• lack of training resources;
• difficulty getting resource materials to outer islands;
• lack of training budget

• Stats to publish poverty/vulnerability data from census and HIES;
• IntAff in collaboration with CINDC conducts national and island workshops on human rights and vulnerability of girls and women with disabilities;
• IntAff and CINDC conduct training workshops for health, welfare and police on “rights’ and most vulnerable groups in Cook Islands community;
• GAD Div of IntAff collaborates with DO on including disability in GAD programme.
• NCW includes disability in programme.

IntAff GAD and DO;

CINDC;

NCW.

CINDC and IntAff workshops held and records kept;

NCW annual report.

• Lack of support and awareness in the outer islands;
• Lack of resources to conduct workshops;
• Lack of awareness and support amongst women’s groups locally and nationally;
• National statistics not sufficiently disaggregated by sex and disability.

• Policy for special needs education implementation agreed by Cabinet;
• Vocational training policy for youths and adults with disabilities developed by Department of National Human Resources Development;
• Dept of National HRD consult widely, including with the Creative Centre, on adult lifeskills and vocational training policy and planning for PWDs;
• MOE integrates SNE needs into national budget;
• SNE and Vocational Training integrated into development assistance programming by Aid Coordination Unit, MFEM;
• On-going In-service training programme developed by MOE in coordination with Teachers Training College;
• MOE EFA officer consults IntAff DO on reporting on disability issues.

Dept of National HRD.

Integrated into budget setting process;

Dept of National HRD includes PWDs in training programmes (In-country and overseas).

• Lack of budgetary provision in MOE;
• Not integrated into corporate plan and annual resource allocation processes;
• SNE not regarded as priority;
• Lack of EFA resources to report on disability issues;
• Dept of National HRD fails to address vocational and lifeskills training needs of PWDs in national policy and planning and does not allocate resources.

• MOH develop policy and strategy on early intervention priorities in collaboration with MOE and IntAff;
• MOH to hold Workshops on early intervention in the outer islands for Health, Welfare and Education personnel ;
• “Front line” health and education personnel keep accurate records on children with disability and other “at risk” children, from birth.

MOE;

IntAff Welfare Officers.

MOH annual report;

Teacher monitoring

Outer Island Welfare Officers’ Reporting.

• lack of policy guidance on priorities for MOH and MOE;
• focus is mainly on day-to-day health issues rather than developing early intervention;
• lack of collaboration between MOH, MOE and IntAff on early intervention policy and strategies.

• community and employer awareness programme developed;
• resources committed to develop information packs for employers on work place safety.

CINDC

IntAff DO and CINDC reporting.

• lack of resources to develop programme and information packs;
• lack of commitment by employers and enforcement agencies;

• IntAff and MOH agree on information requirements and how it is collected
• MOH to collect data on needs for rehab and assistive services throughout the outer islands and Rarotonga;
• MOH to conduct policy and strategy review on integrating rehab and assistive devices needs throughout the Cook Islands using CBR model;
• MOH to consult CINDC and IntAff on rehab policy and services;
• MOH in collaboration with IntAff to conduct awareness training for local island administrations and health personnel on rehab and assistive devices needs;
• MOH and IntAff to consult local cultural health resource people on the provision of rehab services.

CINDC;

IntAff.

MOH records and reporting;

MOH policy review document;

CINDC monitoring.

• Lack of policy guidance for MOH;
• Lack of awareness of needs;
• Lack of budget provision for rehabilitation programmes and assistive devices.

• MOH in coordination with IntAff DO to collect data on demand for assistive services;
• Delivery of assistive devices integrated into rehabilitation policy review;
• MOH to review skills and human resources necessary to develop appropriate assistive devices;
• Assistive devices included as a “line item” in MOH budget.

CINDC;

IntAff.

MOH policy review document;

CINDC monitoring.

• Lack of coordination on data collection and dissemination;
• Lack of structure and consistency in data collection in the outer islands;
• Assistive devices not budgeted for by MOH;

• MOW to Develop Technical specifications on access engineering and design requirements in consultation with IntAff and CINDC;
• MOW to revise existing building code;
• MOW and IntAff collaborate on public consultations on NBC review to ensure PWD input;
• IntAff in collaboration with CINDC to conduct an awareness training workshop on disability access issues for MOW;

PWDs;

CINDC.

• MOW fails to allocate resources to review building code;
• Failure to comply with reviewed NBC, in particular the access engineering and design requirements;
• Lack of wide public awareness of the reviewed NBC locally and nationally.

• IntAff to work with micro-credit advisers and lenders to develop information packs for PWDs on income generation and micro-credit;
• SBEC target PWDs for training workshop in outer islands and Rarotonga;
• IntAff consults CINDC and other PWDs on review of Industrial and Labour Ordinance of 1964;
• Employment/self-employment data disaggregated for disabilities.

IntAff;

Banks;

Office of Statistics.

IntAff monitoring;

Office of Statistics publications.

• Lack of resources in SBEC to provide advice;
• Lack of awareness within wider community to support PWDs enterprise development;
• Employment data not gathered in a way that allows disaggregation by disability.

• Office of Statistics census data published;
• IntAff coordinates data obtained from Stats, Education and Health and publishes this information and ensure that it is included in “island profiles,” and made available to Office of Islands Administration, other govt ministries and NGOs;
• CINDC to ensure that PWDs are consulted on information/data requirements;
• CINDC consults nationally to develop a working definition of “disability;” that can also be utilised for any international reporting requirements.

CINDC.

Completed surveys.

• Data not disseminated;
• Data not used to inform policy development;
• Data not put in a form that assists international reporting requirements.

• MOH and IntAff in consultation with other key stakeholders (e.g. Creative Centre and Island Committees) to develop information packs for care givers;
• MOH and IntAff agree on how to gather data on who is providing care for people with disabilities;
• Community health workers trained on how to monitor and record needs and share information with IntAff;

IntAffDO

Information packs available.

• Lack of resources to compile information packs for care givers;
• Lack of coordination for compiling information packs;
• Lack of consistency in monitoring and information recording;
• Lack of awareness of needs of carers in the outer islands;

• IntAff and CINDC to send copies of the National Policy to all community and other interest groups for comment;
• IntAff to report annually on progress with implementation of National Policy on Disability;
• CINDC reviews its constitution to emphasise national coordination requirements and benefits;
• CINDC develops monitoring arrangements of its own and agrees terms of reference for monitoring with key stakeholders.

CINDC

CINDC monthly and annual reporting.

• Lack of support by island committees for national coordination arrangements;
• Lack of wide consultation on CINDC constitution review;