United Nations Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (UNCRPD) Implementation: Perspectives of Persons with Disabilities in Namibia

Chibaya, Gwarega; Govender, Pragashnie; Naidoo, Deshini

doi:10.1155/2021/6693141

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“…(Participant, South Africa) Socio-economic, cultural, and other barriers in communities on the ground in the studied countries mean that national laws and international frameworks are often neither known nor seen as relevant in local rural contexts including by those responsible for implementation such as local politicians. This supports findings in other studies (Chibaya et al, 2021;Grech, 2015;Guzu, 2015) suggesting that policies do not automatically mean that anything will be done in local contexts. The following quote highlights the situation in practice:…”

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Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD

Grech,

Weber,

Rule

2023

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) remains in place as the major disability rights instrument recognising that all persons with disabilities must enjoy human rights and freedoms as every other person. However, the CRPD does not automatically confer realization of these rights. In practice, its implementation is met by multiple hurdles, most pronounced at the local level in the Global South, where disability and poverty intersect. This article reports on findings from a study in five countries (Kenya, Philippines, Jamaica, Guatemala, and South Africa) looking at the extent to which the CRPD is being implemented locally in contexts of poverty, and the factors and processes impacting this localization. The findings highlight multiple barriers, becoming more pronounced in local rural areas. These include weak and fragmented organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), political and legal issues, and a siloed approach where disability is marginalised in mainstream areas, including development. These barriers are accentuated as intersectional dimensions are factored in, including indigeneity, age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Overall, each local context is left to its own devices, with urban stakeholders, unknowing of what life in poverty is like and how this reframes the CRPD in discourse and practice at the forefront. Our study concludes that there is a profound need for an informed, contextualized, intersectional, and geopolitical analysis where poverty is kept sharply in focus. This is essential to move beyond unrealistic assumptions about disability rights frameworks and to work towards truly localized and transformative efforts.

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Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD

Grech,

Weber,

Rule

2023

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“…In this vein, for example, the Women's Development Fund (WDF) in Zimbabwe, implemented by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development, aims to empower women, including those with disabilities, through various financial inclusion initiatives. According to Chibaya et al (2021), the government of Zimbabwe is playing a fundamental role in narrowing the existing gaps in promoting the inclusion of women with disabilities in ISALS.…”

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The Inclusion of Women with Disabilities in Internal Savings and Lending Schemes (ISALS) by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, and Small and Medium Enterprises Development in Harare Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe

H. C.,

G. S.,

et al. 2024

Journal of Advanced Research and Multidisciplinary Studies

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Women with disabilities remain among the common social groups in communities that face sidelining and exclusion from development interventions, often referred to as the ‘unseen’ and ‘left behind’ group. Most research focuses on development initiatives for all women generally whilst following on interventions by the civil society to the relative exclusion of disabled women. Hence, this study was influenced by the need to examine the services of the government through the Ministry of Women Affairs in ensuring inclusion of women with disabilities in development initiatives in particular Internal Savings and Lending Schemes (ISALs) that are being carried out in Harare. The study was informed by the intersectionality approach and used a qualitative research approach in which a case study design was employed. The study involved fourteen participants who included women with disabilities, Community Development Officers/Coordinators (CDOs/ CDCs), Provincial Development Officer (PDO) and other professionals from disability rights agencies. Qualitative data was gathered through interviews, and findings were analyzed using thematic analysis. The major services that were found included mobilizing and training women in communities and monitoring ISAL activities. It was revealed that inclusion of women with disabilities in ISALS is still low and in gradual progression. The study also showed major challenges that the ministry faces in their efforts to include women with disabilities in ISALs, which include shortage of resources to fund reasonable accommodation and inclusive ISALS, lack of support from the families and communities of women with disabilities, stigmatization, and discrimination. The researchers went on to make recommendations towards the implementation of ISALS to promote full inclusion of women with disabilities.

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“…in religious activities or society is rather an irony (Chibaya, et al, 2021;UDSA, 2020;Ojok and Musenze, 2019). Davis (2013) acknowledges that the complexity of understanding being, and post identity requires biblical scholarship to appreciate disability research as an important aspect for understanding human relations and construction of human identities.…”

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A Contextual Interpretation of Disability Inclusion in 2 Samuel 9 and the Bamasaaba of Eastern Uganda

Masiga,

Nkabala

2024

The Thinker

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Disability inclusion among African communities is shaped by African religious discourse on disability, which influence the perceptionsof the society. This article provides a contextual reading of disability inclusion in 2 Samuel 9 and among Bamasaaba of Eastern Uganda. The authors argue that although inclusive communities are affirmed in both Old and New Testaments, some oppressive and discriminative interpretations of biblical texts still exist. It explores how interpretation of disability in 2 Samuel 9 and among Bamasaaba can transform religious perceptions on disability inclusion. Through interpretive hermeneutical approach and historical-critical methods, the article establishes that aspects of identity, social status and perception as interpreted in 2 Samuel 9 correspond to how Bamasaaba construct disability phenomenon in their socio-religious contexts. Contextual interpretation of disability inclusion is significant for the liberation, inclusion, and empowerment of people with disability to actively participate in society. Using African disability hermeneutics, biblical texts can be interpreted to transform the negative attitudes, theological views and religious perceptions on disability. Arguably, transforming the religious perceptions is necessary to removing barriers to inclusive religious and social participation of persons with disability.

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United Nations Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (UNCRPD) Implementation: Perspectives of Persons with Disabilities in Namibia

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD

Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD

The Inclusion of Women with Disabilities in Internal Savings and Lending Schemes (ISALS) by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, and Small and Medium Enterprises Development in Harare Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe

A Contextual Interpretation of Disability Inclusion in 2 Samuel 9 and the Bamasaaba of Eastern Uganda

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