Unemployment in women with psychosocial disabilities during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons from Tana River County, Kenya

Ebuenyi, Ikenna D.; Gitonga, Isaiah; Tele, Albert; Syurina, Elena V.

doi:10.1002/jid.3638

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“…The special issue was planned, and the call for papers launched during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was important to include at least one paper about the economic impacts of the pandemic on a particular population (Ebuenyi et al, 2022). Other papers also discuss the pandemic as some of their data were collected during the acute period of the crisis.…”

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“…They are already in precarious economic positions and are vulnerable to catastrophic expenditures and losses of income, as their work (if they can get it) is often in the informal sector and without long-term security and typically not protected by employment laws. Some of papers report on research linked to intervention programmes working on disability inclusive employment and thus provide recommendations for programme planners and for policy level action (Bialik & Mhiri, 2022;Ebuenyi et al, 2022;Morris et al, 2022;Remnant et al, 2022;Shaw et al, 2022;Yusupov & Abdukhalilov, 2022).…”

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“…The seven papers included here address dilemmas within the disability inclusive employment arena from various angles and in diverse cultural and socio‐political contexts. Some have a multi‐country focus (e.g., Bialik & Mhiri, 2022; Morris et al, 2022; Shaw et al, 2022) while others discuss individual countries and situations (Ebuenyi et al, 2022: Kenya; Nkansah‐Dwamena, 2022: Ghana; Remnant et al, 2022: Malawi; Yusupov & Abdukhalilov, 2022: Uzbekistan).…”

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“…The mechanisms driving this are thought to be that it is harder to get a job and keep it for disabled people and also reduced access to finance, extra expenses, reduced social capital, less community support and more stigma to deal with. Increased risk of job loss for people with disabilities during economic downturns and other crises (e.g., as an impact of a pandemic) is mentioned by several of the papers (Bialik & Mhiri, 2022; Ebuenyi et al, 2022). Taking an intersectional view, we can see the overlapping inequalities that disabled people face.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some of papers report on research linked to intervention programmes working on disability inclusive employment and thus provide recommendations for programme planners and for policy level action (Bialik & Mhiri, 2022; Ebuenyi et al, 2022; Morris et al, 2022; Remnant et al, 2022; Shaw et al, 2022; Yusupov & Abdukhalilov, 2022). There are clear overlaps and synchronies in what they say.…”

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Mainstreaming disability inclusive employment in international development

Wickenden

Mader

Thompson

et al. 2022

J of Intl Development

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People with disabilities are under-represented in the global workforce, and this problem is often particularly acute in the 'global south'. This special issue seeks to provide new perspectives on why this is the case and comprises seven papers focused on disability inclusive employment. We deliberately wanted to place this collection in the Journal of International Development as a core development publication, rather than in a disability specific one, because we think it is important to 'mainstream' 1 disability within development so that the international community can develop an increased understanding and awareness of disability dilemmas. The challenges faced by disabled people need to be tackled as part of all development thinking and programming.The issue of employment and livelihoods for people with disabilities is gaining increased attention from funders, policymakers, scholars and practitioners, with funding expanding for interventions aiming to fix the complex problems constraining the opportunities for decent work for disabled people (Hanass-Hancock & Mitra, 2016;Steffens, 2021;Wickenden et al., 2020). Sadly, it exists pretty much universally across our planet in high-, middleand low-income settings. The problem is not just one of unequal access to work but also of inequalities experienced by people with disabilities when in work:When disabled people do work, they generally do so for longer hours and lower incomes, have fewer chances of promotion, and are at greater risk of becoming unemployed for longer periods. (Tripney et al., 2015, p. 11) The Sustainable Development Goals' (UN, 2015) call to 'leave no one behind' is particularly pertinent for people with disabilities, for whom being excluded has often been their regular experience to date. However, this is now beginning to change as recognition and funding for disability-focussed intervention programmes and research are rising up the international development agenda. This collection of papers covers a range of issues pertinent to the topic of disability inclusive employment from different practical and theoretical standpoints and focuses on a range of countries and contexts in the 'global south'.We invited contributions from a wide range of authors, intentionally encouraging those who had not previously written for academic journals, to submit, including NGO practitioners, representatives of organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs) and other allies and activists. Support during the writing process was available to those who needed it, and opportunities to be involved in reviewing other papers in the collection were also offered. Thus, these papers reflect an aspiration for different perspectives to be brought in various dilemmas and challenges to be highlighted regarding the progress towards achieving a disability inclusive society generally, and specifically towards people with disabilities having access to meaningful employment on an equal basis. At the same time, we cannot deny that such a special issue, put together by a team of no...

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confidence: 99%