A review of the challenges of achieving the goals in the African Plan of Action for people with disabilities in Nigeria

Eleweke, C. Jonah

doi:10.1080/09687599.2012.710009

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“…There are approximately 25 million people living with disabilities in Nigeria (Eleweke, 2013), as mentioned before. Of these, the number of those using mobile phones for their daily activities is not known.…”

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“…Despite, the aforementioned legal frameworks, PWDs continue to experience exclusion, discrimination and difficulties in accessing numerous services in Nigeria (Eleweke, 2013). This is due to the lack of implementation of such legal frameworks and, as such, the ratified documents remained at the theoretical level (Eleweke, 2013). Consequently, in its efforts to operationalize the PWDs' legal framework, the Nigerian government adopted the rehabilitation model in the form of vocational homes, with the assumption that people with disabilities have individual functional limitation.…”

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Mechanisms for mobile phone use in empowerment: A critical realist study of people with disabilities in Nigeria

Iliya

Ononiwu

2020

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are gradually becoming important artifacts for people with disabilities (PWDs). This paper investigates the use of mobile phones in the daily activities of PWDs in sub‐Saharan Africa. The study argues that mobile phone use empowers PWDs, but little is known about what contextual factors and under what underlying mechanisms such empowerment occurs. By adopting Thapa and Omland's (2018) critical realism methodology, we aim to understand the underlying mechanisms, structures and conditions that shape empowerment through mobile phone use by PWDs in Nigeria. The Capability Approach (CA) was engaged as the theoretical framework. Semi‐structured interviews and focus group discussions with twenty‐four PWDs were used as the primary source of data. Our findings reveal that contextual factors such as personal, social and environmental factors enable/hinder empowerment for PWDs. Similarly, mechanisms such as accessibility and acceptability, technology knowledge, social media and mobile phone features are found to be the main underlying mechanisms triggering the events we observed. However, we argue that these mechanisms are enacted from other enabling structures such as the ubiquity of mobile phones, caregivers and contextual conditions like the personal innovativeness in mobile phone use and the low price of mobile phones. Our findings contribute to the critical realism methodology, policy and theory.

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Mechanisms for mobile phone use in empowerment: A critical realist study of people with disabilities in Nigeria

Iliya

Ononiwu

2020

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“…For example, Lang, Groce, and their colleagues have found that successful implementation has been hampered in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Uganda by problems of governance (inadequate national disability laws, limited political will) and weaknesses within DPOs (underfunding, overwork, control by paternalistic urban elites). This is particularly troubling since, to tap into their rights, disabled individuals require more resources and support than do non-disabled persons (Lang et al 2011, 208-11; see also Eleweke 2013). Similar problems have been identified in South Africa (Heap, Lorenzo, and Thomas 2009, 858-859), Kenya (Opini 2010), and Ghana (Nepveux 2006;Ssengooba et al 2012).…”

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‘I nearly lost my work’: chance encounters, legal empowerment and the struggle for disability rights in Ghana

Grischow

2014

Disability & Society

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This article uses a case study from Ghana to argue that rights-based legal instruments are important but insufficient steps towards securing disability rights in non-western societies. Despite Ghana's implementation of a Disability Act and ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a grassroots perspective shows that legislation and the model of legal empowerment will not automatically produce equal access to human rights. The paper will present this argument through a case study of an individual who became disabled in 2008 and struggled for four years to secure his rights to healthcare and employment. I also argue that the case has a wider significance for disability rights in Ghana and beyond.

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“…Disability issue in Nigeria is generally viewed as a charity and welfare instead of rights, which has led to ineffective enforcement of disability discrimination law and exclusion in government programs and services (Eleweke, 2013;Lang & Upah, 2008). People with disabilities in the country encounter a plethora of barriers in accessing various important services, essentially depriving them the opportunities that would enhance the development of their potential and leading productive and contributing lives (Eleweke & Ebenso, 2016).…”

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Determinants of Health Care Seeking Behaviour and Unmet Need Among People With Physical Disabilities in Nigeria

Zandam¹,

Juni

Hayati³

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IJPHCS

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Background: Generally people with disabilities have high healthcare need that is likely as a result of primary condition causing the disability, comorbidity or their vulnerability to diseases. Despite these health challenges and need for healthcare those living in poor countries have poor healthcare seeking behaviour and experience unmet healthcare needs. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional population based survey was used to collect data from 285 respondent recruited using multi-stage sampling methods Result: Result from multiple regression analysis shows several variables independently to be significantly with healthcare seeking behaviour such as gender, age, location, SES, health status, and perceived cost of healthcare. Report of unmet needs for healthcare is associated with gender, age, location, SES, income, health status, distance, and perceived service quality. Conclusion: If the healthcare needs of people with disability have to be met, innovative strategies will need to be devised to reach out to people with disabilities, especially women, elderly and the poor with disabilities.

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A review of the challenges of achieving the goals in the African Plan of Action for people with disabilities in Nigeria

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Mechanisms for mobile phone use in empowerment: A critical realist study of people with disabilities in Nigeria

Mechanisms for mobile phone use in empowerment: A critical realist study of people with disabilities in Nigeria

‘I nearly lost my work’: chance encounters, legal empowerment and the struggle for disability rights in Ghana

Determinants of Health Care Seeking Behaviour and Unmet Need Among People With Physical Disabilities in Nigeria

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