Disability Awareness Working Group

Awareness-raising activities aim to promote the understanding of disability issues, and to mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of the benefits of integrating persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life in order to ensure that the people with disabilities within the society have equal rights, equity and opportunities like the other citizen without discrimination

Achievement in 2007

Mainstreaming Activity

The term 'mainstreaming disability' means integrating disability issues into policies plans and programs in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of persons with disabilities an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and program in all political, economic and societal spheres so that persons with disabilities benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.