Mainstreaming Disability
P.
P
P. Stephen , IRCDS
Mainstream
Your Boat
Side stream
What if you are in the Mainstream?
What if you are in the Side stream?
WHAT IS MAINSTREAMING?
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“Mainstreaming is about building disability into
existing agendas, frameworks and processes”.
“Mainstreaming is a method to promote inclusion
and to address the barriers that exclude persons with
disability from full and equal participation in society”.
WHY MAINSTREAM DISABILITY?
Mainstreaming is essential if we want to tackle the exclusion
of disabled people.
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Inclusive services: Supporting basic services to include
disabled people.
It’s a matter of Rights: Mainstreaming is essentially a
question of rights. Everyone, including every disabled person,
has the same fundamental human rights, such as the right to
life, to information, to freedom of movement, to education,
to family life, to decent work and to a voice in decisions that
affect them.
How to approach mainstreaming?
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Mainstreaming is an ongoing process of including
disability into all our work.
Mainstreaming starts with us. We can all be role
models of more equitable and inclusive relationships
between disabled and non-disabled people.
Mainstreaming Model
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1. Organizational commitment
2. Sensitization Process
3. Programme mainstreaming
4. Policy mainstreaming
5.Workplace mainstreaming
1. Organizational Commitment
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Management support is essential
to allow adjustments to organizational
policies and processes
Develop an understanding of the situation of
disabled women & girls and men & boys.
2. Sensitization process
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is the process of building people’s personal
engagement with, and commitment to,
disability.
is staff becoming personally engaged with
their organization’s commitment to
mainstreaming.
without our individual commitment, there
can be no mainstreaming.
4. Programme Mainstreaming
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is to include persons with disabilities in
our programme planning,
implementation, monitoring, evaluation
and documentation processes.
4.Policy Mainstreaming
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is to address wider policy and
institutional barriers that exclude
persons with disabilities from equal
participation.
we need to engage with policy as well
as practice.
5.Work Place Mainstreaming
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appropriate adjustments is in our own
workplaces.
Workplace mainstreaming is about creating
an inclusive, barrier-free workplace where
disabled people can participate equally.
appropriate policies and procedures and
ensuring that other employees treat disabled
people equitably, with dignity and respect.
Good Practices
ngo
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NGO level
Develop Disability Policy /strategy paper on
disability.
All the
existing and future programmes/
projects should have the disability inclusiive
Include the component of PWDs in the existing
monthly/Qty/HY reporting formats
One of agenda for EC & staff meeting could be
mainstreaming disability
Good Practices
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----% Reservation for PWDs in EC/GB
----% reservation for PWDs in new staff
recruitment
Orient all the EC/GB Members & staff on
disability perspective
Orient the stakeholders including Govt.,
churches , Donors/ funding agencies on the
needs of PWDs and MS strategies.
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Get the information under RTI to ensure the
utilisation of 3 % funds for PWDs in
Government schemes.
Networking/alliance building with DPOs &
other NGOs, Churches etc
Mainstreaming at Project level
Project Name
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Program level
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2
3
Organizational level
- Workplace level
Scope for
mainstreaming
Process to be
followed
Challenges
faced/for
seen
Overcome
Comprehensive Approach
Disability
Specific
 Services
 Disability
related
Skills
Inclusive
Development
 Peoples‘
Attitudes
 Legislation
& Rights
 Empower
that does not side stream PWDs
that includes PWDs in the mainstream as equal partners
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August 2012