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Disability and poverty reduction strategies. How to ensure that access of persons with disabilities to decent and productive work is part of the PRSP process. Discussion paper

Infocus Programme on Skills, Knowledge and Employability/ Disability Programme  (2002)

Organisation

: European Union

Document Type

: Other Documents (Article, toolkit, …)

Publisher

: International Labour Organization

City

: Geneva

Pages

: 23

Language

: EN

Abstract / Table of Contents

:

1 Introduction 1

2 Persons with disabilities: between participation in economic growth and social protection - the rationale for widening current PRSP concepts 4
2.1 Why participation of persons with disabilities in productive work should be part of the PRSP 4
2.2 Basic concepts in current disability thinking and practice 5
2.3 The treatment of persons with disabilities in the Sourcebook 11
2.3.1 A limited “Social Protection” approach to disability 11
2.3.2 Ambiguities of the Sourcebook’s “Social Protection” concept in relation to employment 13
2.3.3 A non-inclusive approach to vocational rehabilitation 15
2.3.4 Disability in currently available (I)PRSPs. Summary of findings 16

Format

: File PDF

Last Update

9 Feb 2010