Programme : Presentation on Day
1 Tools for
effective evaluation of disability impact, including disability sensitivity
tool, disability impact analysis and disability budgeting
Presented by Kay Nagata
Disability Focal Point
UN ESCAP
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UN ESCAP/CDPF Field Study cum Regional Workshop
on Poverty Alleviation among Persons with Disabilities
Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, 25-29 October 2004
Tools for effective evaluation
of disability impact, including disability sensitivity tool, disability
impact analysis and disability budgeting
By Kay Nagata, UNESCAP
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Poverty and disability (dynamism)
Graphic of a cycle:
- Underdevelopment / Insufficient infrastructure
- Low level of economic development / Poverty
- Mal-nutrition / Insecurity / Terrorism / Civil Conflict
- Disability / Insufficient Services
- Impairment / Low Production / Lack of Human Resource Development
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Two main paradigms
- Development model: Twin track approach (disability integration into
mainstream projects, CBR, poverty alleviation, MDG goals, etc.)
- Human rights- based approach: The Convention for PWD, national laws,
self-help groups, shift from medical model to social model, etc.;
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Disability and Development: Towards a Global Strategy
- Disability and development policies: Bilateral agencies: USAID, NORD,
JICA, British DFID;
- Multilateral agencies: World Bank, ADB, etc.
- INGOS: Save the Children
- Mainstreaming disability in development projects;
- DFID paper on “Disability, poverty and development”; Sida paper; NORD
paper on disability and development, Jica effort, etc.
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Twin Track Approach of disability and development
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Disability
mainstreaming: disability as cross-cutting issues; enhanced by social
model of disability;
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Disability blindness
just like gender blindness;
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“Twin Track Approach”
(just like gender) of disability mainstreaming and empowerment of PWD;
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Empowerment through CBR,
capacity building, rehabilitation, training, etc.
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Strategies for disability integration and assessment of disability
impact
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Active participation of
PWD at all levels (planning, designing, implementation, monitoring,
evaluation) of development projects;
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Cross-sectoral approach;
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Working together with
DPOs and NGOs;
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Disability sensitivity
training of ODA workers and project staff;
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Development of an
effective “disability impact assessment tool” and evaluation mechanism;
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Disability budgeting.
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Disability Integration (some examples)
- For infrastructure projects: Use of barrier-free and “universal
design”;
- Mainstreaming of PWD in training programmes (how many disabled people,
if not why not?);
- Recruitment of disabled staff in development agencies;
- In-house staff training on disability sesitivity;
- Barrier-free training curriculum (e.g. Braille, computer Braille,
accessible on-line information, accessible digital information, etc.);
- Promotion of inclusive education or disabled children (how many
disabled children will benefit from the project?).
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Empowerment of PWD (some examples)
- Support to self-help groups, DPOs, etc.;
- Rehabilitation (all kinds of rehabilitation projects, medical,
vocational, social, etc.);
- Lobbying skills and advocacy;
- CBR and other community-based projects for PWD and independent
living projects.
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Some assessment tools
- Is the project related to PWD? “ --- YES” for projects related to
public transportation, buildings, small scale business, rural development
and social welfare and social services, etc;
- To what extent is the project related to disabled persons (particular
impact such as medical services, as much as other people, indirectly, etc.
by different degrees)?
- Are PWD participating in the planning, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation process?
- Is the project in accordance with the international norms and
standards (WPA, the Standard Rules, the Convention, etc.)?
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Some assessment tools (continues)
- Is the project has any specific measures to guarantee the benefit of
PWD as beneficiaries and stakeholders?
- Accessibility, equality, safety, affordability, reachability,usability,
workability, and orientation;
- No minus impact of the project on PWD?
- Any scope of sustainability of the project?
- In the project document, was “disability impact” assessed?
- Is the disability impact assessment included in the final evaluation
process, and if so, who is participating in the process.
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ODA policy check list
- Is there any official disability integration policy of a development
agency?
- Is the policy adopting the internationally recognized norms (e.g. ICF,
the standard rules, WPA, BMF, etc.)?;
- What is the overall coverage (%) of disability integration of all
projects?
- What is the monitoring mechanism of checking disability integration.
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Disability budgeting
- Disability budgeting vs gender budgeting:
- Head-counting of beneficiaries;
- What is the total budget allocated for the benefit of PWD in the
project (e.g. ILO project in Cambodia, 5% of trainees was disabled
trainees);
- Is the any additional specific allocation for promotion of disability
integration (e.g. with additional budget for PWD, the ratio of disabled
trainees was increased to 15 % in the Cambodia project).
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Thank you
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