Women with Disabilities

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Women with Disabilities

• Maria Veronica Reina
• Global Partnership for Disability and Development

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WwD in Development-GPDD
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Framing the Issue

• Marginalization results in Exclusion
• Economic
• Social life
• Community
• Barriers to Development Programs
• Physical
• Cultural

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Reproductive Health of WwD

• Barriers to access reproductive health care and
  basic medical care
• Inaccessibility of health care clinics and
  procedures
• Lack of information in appropriate formats
• Lack of awareness and sensitization among agents
• Rights denied
• Retain fertility
• Give birth

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Violence and Access to Justice

• Violence from
• Care givers
• In war
• In prisons
• From their own families
• Barriers to access Justice
• Accessibility issues
• Awareness issues

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Education

• Women with disabilities lower educational
  attainment than other women and men with
  disabilities
• Developing countries lack of teachers and
  schools capable to addressing the needs of
  children with disabilities in education,
  especially in the rural areas.

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Environment

• Women with disabilities disproportionately
  impacted by natural and man made disasters

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Employment

• Discrimination, based on gender or disability or
  both, is a significant barrier for women with
  disabilities in obtaining employment.
• Women with disabilities face attitudinal and
  institutional barriers to participating in
  different forms of employment, including
  self-employment

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Other issues

• Marginalized Populations within Women with
  Disabilities
• Girls with Disabilities
• Aging with Disability
• Care-giving
• Assistive devices
• Sanitation
• Data

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Other issues 2

• Media
• Mental health

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Recommendations

• Leading role in society
• Participation in development
• Inclusion of a gendered disability dimension
• Accessibility from project design
• Disability awareness
• Stories of WwD

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Recommendations 2

• Self-determination
• Capacity building of wwd
• Appropriate training of stakeholders
• Inclusion of wwd in education
• Accessible schools
• Early identification of girls with disabilities
• Indicators

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Recommendations 3

• Participatory research
• Media
• MDGs