- Mr. Mojalefa Ntlatlapa joined the labour force in 1988 after 20 years of continuous formal education. He is an experienced social policy development specialist. Particularly seasoned in disability services programming, monitoring and evaluation.edit
A National Disability Policy builds on existing developments and plans. With the Rehabilitation Unit for persons with disabilities (PWDs) being part of the Social Welfare Department, disability has very often been regarded as a... more
A National Disability Policy builds on existing developments and plans. With the Rehabilitation Unit for persons with disabilities (PWDs) being part of the Social Welfare Department, disability has very often been regarded as a peripheral issue in discussions on health services. In drawing a framework for the development of the proposed national policy, it became necessary to identify an ongoing national policy vision, the rights of people with disabilities as well as principles that direct government activity and policy.
The proposed National Policy is intended to be used as a guidepost in designing, implementing and evaluating generic, as well as disability-specific, public policies and programmes to ensure meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities into the mainstream society. In the inaugural workshop on Constructing a National Disability Policy Framework stakeholders discussed a new perspective of looking at disability issues and programmes that considers disability as a natural and normal part of the human experience.
The orientation of this policy is clearly to put emphasis on the rights of persons with disabilities. By aligning, the disability services with the mainstream services this Framework is actually pushing the Lesotho disability sector beyond the normalisation principle into the Social Role Valorisation philosophy that advocates PWDs’ right to access community services similar to all other citizens.
In line with government’s poverty reduction policy and the stakeholder oriented policy development strategy expressed in the vision 2020 document, the challenge for the disability sector was to develop strategies to empower persons with disabilities in order to reduce their poverty. Since poverty reduction is the centrepiece of government development policy, the situation analysis of the economic status of persons with disabilities become instrumental in identifying the key policy areas to be incorporated in the draft working paper that kicked off the current policy formulation process.
The proposed National Policy is intended to be used as a guidepost in designing, implementing and evaluating generic, as well as disability-specific, public policies and programmes to ensure meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities into the mainstream society. In the inaugural workshop on Constructing a National Disability Policy Framework stakeholders discussed a new perspective of looking at disability issues and programmes that considers disability as a natural and normal part of the human experience.
The orientation of this policy is clearly to put emphasis on the rights of persons with disabilities. By aligning, the disability services with the mainstream services this Framework is actually pushing the Lesotho disability sector beyond the normalisation principle into the Social Role Valorisation philosophy that advocates PWDs’ right to access community services similar to all other citizens.
In line with government’s poverty reduction policy and the stakeholder oriented policy development strategy expressed in the vision 2020 document, the challenge for the disability sector was to develop strategies to empower persons with disabilities in order to reduce their poverty. Since poverty reduction is the centrepiece of government development policy, the situation analysis of the economic status of persons with disabilities become instrumental in identifying the key policy areas to be incorporated in the draft working paper that kicked off the current policy formulation process.
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A National Disability Policy builds on existing developments and plans. With the Rehabilitation Unit for persons with disabilities (PWDs) being part of the Social Welfare Department, disability has very often been regarded as a... more
A National Disability Policy builds on existing developments and plans. With the Rehabilitation Unit for persons with disabilities (PWDs) being part of the Social Welfare Department, disability has very often been regarded as a peripheral issue in discussions on health services. In drawing a framework for the development of the proposed national policy, it became necessary to identify an ongoing national policy vision, the rights of people with disabilities as well as principles that direct government activity and policy.
The proposed National Policy is intended to be used as a guidepost in designing, implementing and evaluating generic, as well as disability-specific, public policies and programmes to ensure meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities into the mainstream society. In the inaugural workshop on Constructing a National Disability Policy Framework stakeholders discussed a new perspective of looking at disability issues and programmes that considers disability as a natural and normal part of the human experience.
The orientation of this policy is clearly to put emphasis on the rights of persons with disabilities. By aligning, the disability services with the mainstream services this Framework is actually pushing the Lesotho disability sector beyond the normalisation principle into the Social Role Valorisation philosophy that advocates PWDs’ right to access community services similar to all other citizens.
In line with government’s poverty reduction policy and the stakeholder oriented policy development strategy expressed in the vision 2020 document, the challenge for the disability sector was to develop strategies to empower persons with disabilities in order to reduce their poverty. Since poverty reduction is the centrepiece of government development policy, the situation analysis of the economic status of persons with disabilities become instrumental in identifying the key policy areas to be incorporated in the draft working paper that kicked off the current policy formulation process.
The proposed National Policy is intended to be used as a guidepost in designing, implementing and evaluating generic, as well as disability-specific, public policies and programmes to ensure meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities into the mainstream society. In the inaugural workshop on Constructing a National Disability Policy Framework stakeholders discussed a new perspective of looking at disability issues and programmes that considers disability as a natural and normal part of the human experience.
The orientation of this policy is clearly to put emphasis on the rights of persons with disabilities. By aligning, the disability services with the mainstream services this Framework is actually pushing the Lesotho disability sector beyond the normalisation principle into the Social Role Valorisation philosophy that advocates PWDs’ right to access community services similar to all other citizens.
In line with government’s poverty reduction policy and the stakeholder oriented policy development strategy expressed in the vision 2020 document, the challenge for the disability sector was to develop strategies to empower persons with disabilities in order to reduce their poverty. Since poverty reduction is the centrepiece of government development policy, the situation analysis of the economic status of persons with disabilities become instrumental in identifying the key policy areas to be incorporated in the draft working paper that kicked off the current policy formulation process.