2013 ties for persons with disabilities.

2013 ties for persons with disabilities.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY MINISTRY OF LABOUR FOR THE REFORM OF THE LABOUR LAW

MAKING EDUCATION MORE INCLUSIVE

PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMONG PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Capacity development sessions on child-led activities

Gaza. Further training was then provided for 291 first

Disability was mainstreamed in the Deprived Families

and different aspect of inclusive education were con-

grade teachers. Screening was also undertaken for

and Economic Empowerment Programme (DEEP),

ducted for master trainers in 70 pilot schools in the

16,043 first grade students of whom 1,760 were identi-

an initiative that provides access to a package of

West Bank and Gaza. Follow-up training was then car-

fied as having varying degrees of speech and language

financial and non-financial enterprise development

ried out for school principals, teachers, counselors,

problems and received referrals for diagnostics.

services to poor households. As a result of this col-

children and parents. Twenty-three teachers were also

Ten speech therapy units within Gaza were furnished

laboration, 180 persons with disabilities were assisted

trained on storytelling techniques to teach about diver-

with the necessary supplies and equipment.

in preparing business plans and received grants to

sity, and 448 stories were developed and disseminated

start businesses. A training manual on the vocational

in 10 pilot schools.

Based on the experiences of inclusive education pilots

rehabilitation of persons with disabilities was also

supported by the UNPRPD in the West Bank and Gaza,

developed in the context of the partnership between

To strengthen institutional capacity on early diagno-

the case for inclusive education was strengthened

the UNPRPD and DEEP, and in collaboration with

sis, 50 inclusive and special education staff from the

and technical support was provided to the Ministry of

the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA). The manual has

Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE)

Education and Higher Education in the articulation of its

been adopted by the Ministry and is being used by

received intensive training on speech and language

first inclusive education policy.

MoSA field workers to promote the inclusion of per-

therapy and were deployed to six governorates in

sons with disabilities in economic empowerment programmes.

DISABILITY WAS

TRAINING MANUAL

MAINSTREAMED IN THE

ON THE VOCATIONAL

DEPRIVED FAMILIES AND

REHABILITATION OF PERSONS

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

WITH DISABILITIES

PROGRAMME (DEEP),

AN INITIATIVE WHICH PROVIDES ACCESS TO A

50 PACKAGE OF FINANCIAL AND

THE MANUAL HAS BEEN

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

NON-FINANCIAL ENTERPRISE

10 INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH

INCLUSIVE AND SPECIAL

ADOPTED TO PROMOTE THE

SESSIONS ON CHILD-LED

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO

DISABILITIES IN ECONOMIC SPEECH THERAPY UNITS

EDUCATION STAFF FROM THE

ACTIVITIES AND INCLUSIVE

POOR HOUSEHOLDS

EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMMES WITHIN GAZA WERE

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

EDUCATION WERE

AND HIGHER EDUCATION

CONDUCTED FOR MASTER

FURNISHED WITH THE

(MOEHE) RECEIVED INTENSIVE

TRAINERS IN 70 PILOT

NECESSARY SUPPLIES AND

TRAINING ON SPEECH AND

SCHOOLS IN THE WEST BANK

EQUIPMENT

LANGUAGE THERAPY

AND GAZA

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ASSISTED IN PREPARING BUSINESS PLANS AND

16,043 RECEIVED GRANTS TO START

BUSINESSES

FIRST GRADE STUDENTS SCREENED FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROBLEMS AND RECEIVED REFERRALS FOR

DIAGNOSTICS

SCHOOL

“The Department of Social Development would like to express its appreciation to the UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which, through its Fund,

South Africa

rendered significant financial and technical support to the development process of the White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This enabled the Department to, amongst others, finalize research into a number of the key policy options considered in the White Paper and deepen participation by civil society. It will furthermore assist with the roll-out of an implementation capacitation programme across government and civil society, but also in particular for representative organizations of persons with disabilities (inclusive of parents’ organizations).”

White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

approved by the South African Cabinet on 9 December 2015

WHITE PAPER ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES