includes ensuring that more teachers are trained to teach people with disabilities at all
levels and there should be more schools that cater for children with disabilities. Schools
should have facilities for people with different forms of disabilities and Government
should strive to create more special needs schools . As a way to address past
imbalances the government should avail more adult education facilities for the disabled
to give them new opportunities. The government should make it a priority to provide
special assistance devices and other teaching materials for both the teachers of the
disabled and students.
3. The right to health and health services should be provided for people living with
disabilities. This includes provision of assistance devices for free such as spectacles
and wheelchairs. A qualified interpreter should be stationed at all hospitals to ensure
that the hearing impaired can access services at medical institutions.
4. Information on reproductive health rights including information on HIV and AIDS and
other STI’s should be available for women living with disabilities in formats that they can
understand e.g. tablets, condoms should be marked with Braille for the blind.
5. The law should provide special protection for women and girls living with disabilities
from abuse. Deterrent penalties should be provided for those that abuse women with
disabilities.
6. Women living with disabilities must actively participate in the governance of their
country. This means that women living with disabilities should have at least 10%
representation of the overall women’s representation of women in decision making. A
special office in Government must be created to cater for the needs of people living with
disabilities. It should be mandatory that political parties produce their manifestos to cater
for the disabled so that they too can fully participate in the politics of the country as full
citizens.
7. Infrastructure at public and private institutions should allow for access and use by
women living with disabilities.
8. People living with disabilities must be able to exercise their right to vote. This includes
for instance access to information on political campaigns and access to polling stations
and facilitating voting by people living with disabilities in a conducive environment.
9. The right work should be extended to people living with disabilities. Employers and work
places should be working with a quota system for the employees living with disabilities.
10. A disability grant should be enshrined within the constitution and should be obligatory
for government to ensure that the disabled are able to enjoy their socio-economic
rights.
11. Government must seek to provide access to resources including access to land and
other resources for people living with disabilities to enable them to have independent
livelihoods. The government should for instance waive taxation on the disabled as well
as providing loans.