HANDICAP PLUS Association – Support Group for People with Disabilities
Total budget: MKD 1.797.189
Timeframe: 01.06.2017 – 31.08.2018
Partner
Association for the Rights of the People with Special Needs Active Life Tetovo
Constituents
Target groups of this project are the organizations of people with special needs and the local self-governments in the Northeast and Polog regions,
On the Project Supported by Civica Mobilitas
Regional Policies on Disabilities
Background for the Action
People with disabilities, as well as the organizations of people with special needs at local level, face challenges from the aspect of not having appropriate knowledge and awareness about the participative policy creation in the community and they do not sufficiently know their role according to Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities (CRPD). On the other hand, the local self-government in the Northeast and Polog regions, in general, gave no strategy for cooperation with organizations of people with special needs, not strategic documents and policies to address the issues of significance for the people with disabilities. Additionally, their policies are not approximated to the Convention, which leads to actions at the local level themselves not to be accessible and available to the persons with disabilities.
GOALS AND RESULTS
Goal: Promotion and approximation of the regional policies in the Northeast and Polog regions with the Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities.
Objective: Submitting initiatives for the approximation of the regional policies with the Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities and promoting the participation of the organizations of the people with disabilities in the decision making at the local and regional level.
Results
- Submitted initiatives and recommendations for improving the regional policies in the Northeast and Polog regions with the Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities.
- Strengthened capacities of 15 CSOs of people with disabilities for the participation of these people in accordance with Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities
- Raised public awareness with the stakeholders in both regions on the need to implement the Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities.
Activities
- Getting acquainted with the situation in the field and analyzing the policies in the two regions;
- Preparation and printing of publications, 1,000 copies;
- Strengthening the capacities of the public stakeholders on the need to approximate their policies to Convention on the Rights of the People with Disabilities;
- Strengthening the capacities of the organizations of the persons with disabilities to participate in the public and political life;
- Printing stickers and marking 100 buildings (public and private) in both regions with stickers for accessibility and availability;
- Preparation and broadcasting a documentary film.