Organization of American States Secretariat for Legal Affairs
Department of Special Legal Programs
Technical Secretariat for the development of the Programme of Action for the Decade of the Americas for
the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Guide methodology for the alignment of national plans for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, according to the Programme of Action for the Decade of the Americas by Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
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INTRODUCTION
October 2009 Declaration on the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006-2016), adopted in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with the slogan " Equality, Dignity, and Participation ", AG / DEC. 50 (XXXVI-O/06), with the aim of achieving recognition and exercise full rights and dignity of persons with disabilities and their right to participate fully in economic, social, cultural and political development of their societies, without discrimination and on equal footing with others, and the Programme of Action for the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006-2016) adopted in Panama AG/RES.2339 (XXXVII 0 / 07), Member States committed themselves to undertake programs, plans and actions to achieve inclusion and full participation of persons with disabilities in all areas of society and to carry out social, political, economic, cultural and development opportunities aimed at achieving, and to promote effective measures to prevent further disabilities and access for people with disabilities to services and rehabilitation programs on an equal basis with others;
The development of this initiative has not been easy and has been fraught with complexities. It has required an extensive process of technical and policy coordination in the design and implementation of all policies, programs and projects of the governments of the respective countries. At 3 years of this commitment is necessary to measure progress, transparent to society as a whole the results achieved.
According to the resolution coordinating the implementation of the Programme and its monitored by the Technical Secretariat SEDISCAP, based in Panama City under the direction of Special Legal Programs Department of the Ministry of Legal Affairs. This report will be submitted to the Permanent Council who in turn will raise the awareness and consideration of the OAS General Assembly. Therefore
requested to prepare a progress report on the implementation of that resolution, according to the matrix below.
MATRIX FOR THE PREPARATION OF PROGRESS REPORT
Area 1 - Awareness
Company Objective - To promote the recognition of all human rights of persons with disabilities, protecting their dignity, their proper valuation and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and all cultural barriers, attitudinal and other measures that prevent their development and full and effective inclusion in society.
- Education and outreach.
Specific Objective 1 - To promote and raise awareness throughout society regarding actual and potential contributions to the general welfare, and the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities have
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Activity 1. Create and strengthen a culture of positive perception of human potential, self-determination and individual independence, knowledge, merits, abilities and contributions to society of people with disabilities, promoting respect and protection of their dignity and their rights.
Activity 2. Incorporate the issue of persons with disabilities in educational texts, the images of these texts and curricula, in a cross.
Activity 3. Promote the development of ongoing sensitization and awareness and training directed at public officials of all branches of government and the private sector, with emphasis on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities, promoting the elimination of terms and cultural practices involving ingrained prejudices, stereotypes and discrimination against people with disabilities.
Activity 4. Incorporate policies to protect the rights of persons with disabilities in national mechanisms or systems for the promotion and protection of human rights could include the establishment of Ombudsman for Persons with Disabilities, or a similar figure in those countries where does not exist.
Specific Objective 2 - Develop and maintain public awareness campaigns concerning persons with disabilities
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Activity 5. Spread a culture of positive appreciation in the media, consider including the participation of people with disabilities in the media
Activity 6. Promote the concept of social responsibility and inclusive development in all spheres of society, respecting diversity and promoting equal opportunities.
Activity 7. Incorporate actions or government advertising campaigns those practices that comprehensively promote social inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Activity 8. Develop awareness programs and training on universal design, targeting public and private sectors.
- Support role of civil society
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Activity 9. Promote social networking or community support groups or volunteer to promote the recognition and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities and their full and effective participation in society.
Activity 10. Promote the formation of civil society organizations that include the participation of people with disabilities and to promote and enhance their dignity and rights and, where appropriate, strengthen existing ones. .
Area 2. Promotion and Health Access
Objective. Expand, improve and ensure access for people with disabilities to health services on an equal basis with others. Also to promote scientific and technological research related to prevention of preventable disability, treatment and rehabilitation.
- Promotion and protection of health and disability prevention
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Activity 11. Ensure access for people with disabilities to health services and mental health, on equal terms with others and with due regard to their special needs because of their disability, in the most inclusive possible.
Activity 12. Encourage the adoption of measures for prevention, detection and early intervention in cases of disabling diseases, prevention of accidents and preventable risks
Activity 13. Promote and disseminate scientific and epidemiological research aimed at discovering the causes of disabilities, possible solutions and prevention of disabling injuries and illnesses and to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.
Activity 14. Promoting preconception and prenatal care and comprehensive health services, including information and adequate nutrition for pregnant women and children under three years, encouraging breastfeeding, given the disabilities that can generate the risk prenatal and childbirth and inadequate development of early childhood, with special emphasis on rural and indigenous areas.
Activity 15. Implement mass vaccination plans free to preventing those diseases that cause disability.
Activity 16. Providing people with disabilities with health care and free or affordable, the same variety and quality as those provided to others, even in the field of sexual and reproductive health, and public health programs aimed at the general population
Activity 17. Promote voluntary control of communicable diseases, diabetes, hypertension and infections diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases in order to prevent disability
Activity 18. Prevent, prohibit and punish mistreatment, sexual abuse and exploitation, especially in the context of the family, persons with disabilities, particularly children and women.
Activity 19. Promote the establishment of health care facilities with the facilities for access, examination and treatment of persons with disabilities.
Activity 20. Design, implement and disseminate measures and health and safety standards in workplaces to prevent or reduce the risk of accidents, including adaptation of workplaces to prevent occupational disabilities and diseases
Activity 21. Proceed to the identification and clearance of mines and other unexploded ordnance in territories where there was armed conflict to prevent disabling accidents.
Activity 22. Ensure adequate and timely medical care, physical and mental quality services to people with disabilities, taking into consideration the age, and provide, free or affordable treatment and drugs to overcome the disease or controlling health conditions and prevent deterioration of the person or the worsening of disability.
Activity 23. Design and implement educational strategies for the prevention of all factors of the disability and to promote healthy lifestyles for people with disabilities, at all levels. Activity
24. Implement driver education programs and the consequences of traffic accidents to prevent possible disabilities.
- Rehabilitation
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Activity 25. Strategies to promote community-based rehabilitation services with emphasis on primary health care, integrated into the system health and adjusted to the particularities of each country, and with the participation of organizations of persons with disabilities in its design and execution.
Activity 26. Strengthen existing rehabilitation services, so that all people with disabilities have access to rehabilitation services they need, as close as possible to their place of residence, even in rural areas
Activity 27. Promote appropriate training of professional and technical staff to provide comprehensive care físicomotor type of disability, sensory, intellectual and psychological.
Activity 28. Promote the development of specific training programs and training production and supply in the national team of technical and biomechanics, and the participation of persons with disabilities in those programs
Activity 29. Promote, in addition to medical rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation and survival strategies in the context of community rehabilitation. Activity
30. Take steps to establish commitments and programs to articulate cross-cutting actions to achieve the comprehensive rehabilitation of people with disabilities since childhood.
Area 3.
Education Objective - To ensure and guarantee to persons with disabilities access, on equal basis with others and without discrimination, to inclusive education and quality, including their entry, stay and progress in the educational system, to facilitate their integration into production in all areas of society. Description of Activities
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Activity 31. Promote the inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities and special educational needs in mainstream schools, in an integrated environment.
Activity 32. Ensure that persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education on grounds of disability, and that children with disabilities are not excluded from free and compulsory primary education or secondary education on grounds of disability. Similarly, promoting access for disabled students to technical education, higher and professional.
Activity 33. Ensure that persons with disabilities to access general tertiary education, vocational training, adult education and lifelong learning without discrimination and on equal basis with others. To this end, Member States shall ensure that reasonable adjustments are made for people with disabilities
Activity 34. Provide education and teaching resources, as available, to meet the special educational needs of students in schools of education with an inclusive approach.
Activity 35. At the request of Argentina and Brazil was eliminated.
Activity 36. Promote early education programs that aim at developing the skills of children with disabilities in preschool, according to their specific needs.
Activity 37. Eradicate illiteracy among young adults and adults with disabilities through public policy.
Activity 38. Facilitating the learning of Braille, alternative script, other forms and modes of augmentative alternative communication skills, orientation and mobility, and promote the support of others in the same circumstances, learning sign language and the promotion of the linguistic identity of people with disabilities Activity 39
hearing. Ensure the removal of physical barriers that prevent access of students with needs related to their disabilities in all levels of education as a requirement to develop measures of educational inclusion.
Activity 40. Promote ongoing, specialized training, and distance learning, teachers of all educational levels and other professionals related to disability issues, to promote the formulation and the normal development of inclusion policies, with emphasis on respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
Activity 41. Develop specific curricular adaptations and teaching strategies, by type of disability, to enable an effective response to the educational needs of students with disabilities and ensure their effective learning activity
42. Design and implement educational programs using new information technologies and communications to meet the educational needs associated with disability.
Activity 43. Prioritize the allocation of sufficient financial resources to ensure compliance with inclusive educational policies.
Activity 44. Generate development and assistance programs for families of children and adolescents with disabilities, so that poverty is not a barrier to access to adequate public education
Activity 45. Promoting the theme of universal design in the curriculum of the public education system, from primary to secondary and higher education.
Area 4.
Employment Objective - To promote full employment inclusion, decent, productive and profitable for people with disabilities, whether dependent or independent, both public and private sectors, using as technical and vocational training and equal employment opportunities, including the availability of accessible work environments
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Activity 46. Ensure that persons with disabilities can exercise freely and without discrimination and union rights. Physical or personal support for people with disabilities require to perform their work not be considered unequal treatment, but necessary affirmative action for equal opportunities.
Activity 47. Develop, in both the public and private employment programs for people with disabilities and promote adaptation programs, training and occupational training, technical and professional. Activity
48. Generate special plans for people with disabilities, with respect to, among others, employment policies, prevention of diseases and accidents, health, work safety, social security, training and retraining and development human resources, including measures which are favorable to people with disabilities in the workplace, noting, inter alia, conservation monitoring, loss or change of employment, consideration of flexible working, part-time and the ability to share a job.
Activity 49. Promote the creation of work in the home or remotely, taking into account new information technologies and communication as a means of facilitating greater labor market opportunities for people with disabilities
Activity 50. Conduct studies and programs for developing job profiles and competencies according to the type of disability, providing vocational counseling and guidance to facilitate employment of persons with disabilities in tasks suited to the profiles and competencies
Activity 51. Promote the implementation of mechanisms to encourage reserve jobs for disabled people Activity
52. Promote the creation of job boards to consider the accessibility of employment for people with different types of disabilities
Activity 53. Promote employment of people with disabilities in the private sector through affirmative action policies, tax incentives, grants or special funding, among other similar activities on an equal footing. Activity
54. Ensure effective implementation and enforcement of the provisions of conventions and recommendations of the ILO in this area, as may be applicable to the States
Activity 55. Promote business opportunities, independent work, the development of cooperatives and the creation of micro and small enterprises of persons with disabilities, as well as strengthening existing ones.
Activity 56. Support the development of productive projects and promotion of the products of micro and small enterprises of persons with disabilities, considering the creation of funds and flexible credit lines for such purposes
Activity 57. Promote efforts to ensure that actions aimed at recognition of earning capacity Workers with disabilities are taken into account in the unions' collective agreements. Activity
58. Implement effective policies to support the family or community work of persons with disabilities
Area 5. Accessibility
Objective - Eliminate physical barriers, architectural, communications, information and existing transport, promoting the use of universal design for all new projects, and renovation of existing infrastructure, for people with disabilities to live independently and participate actively in all aspects of community life and private. Ensure access for people with disabilities with security and autonomy, and equal basis with others, the physical environment, space, urban equipment, buildings, transportation, information and communication systems, including information technology and communications, and other services public facilities or open to the public, both in urban and rural areas. Description of Activities
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Activity 59. Ensure compliance with technical standards on accessibility for people with disabilities in accordance goal 5 regarding accessibility. Activity
60. Promote the elimination of urban and architectural barriers that exist in every public entity or public use and promote this practice in the private sector
Activity 61. Take steps to ensure that all new construction or new services and facilities for public use with no barriers to prevent access to persons with disabilities. Activity
62. Promote the elimination of existing barriers in all modes of transport to facilitate access for people with disabilities, seeking to ensure that information related to transportation systems consider the use of modes of transmission information such as written language, sign language, Braille, auditory information, the graphic and in high relief, and other alternative media. Activity
63. Promote the elimination of barriers to communication and information in all media, as well as institutions for public use and public services to improve access for people with disabilities to information and to enable them to receive it. Activity
64. Facilitate access for people with reading disabilities, adopting or adapting public policies in this area, and promoting their full participation in all areas related to reading. States at all levels shall take measures necessary for such policies to ensure public access to books in Braille, large print, spoken or electronic. Activity
65. Promote access for persons with disabilities to new systems and information technology and communications, including Internet. To this end, States may consider, as appropriate, the possibility of granting subsidies, exemption from any taxes and access to financing plans for the acquisition of these new systems and technologies, according to the type of disabilities. Activity
66. Promote the adaptation of virtual portals of public and private sector to facilitate access for people with visual disabilities to them. Activity
67. Consider adoption of the rules of accessibility standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or other similar standards. Activity
68. Promote measures to design and adapt the workplace so that it is accessible to persons with disabilities.
Area 6. Political Participation
Objective - To ensure full and active participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities in public and political life, including participation in the formulation and adoption of public policies to protect and promote their rights on an equal basis with others. Description of Activities
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Activity 69. Ensure the exercise of the rights and duties of citizens and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities by facilitating their identification and registration. Activity
70. Ensure, on an equal basis with others, the full participation of persons with disabilities in the voting, whether as voters or as candidates, considering the necessary means of access, including the modality of assisted voting by a person of their choosing and adapting electoral systems to that end. Activity
71. Promote participation of disabled people in public service in his country. Activity
72. Consider the input and contributions of persons or organizations of persons with disabilities in the development, implementation and monitoring of public policies in this area, particularly those that directly affect them. Activity
73. Promote coordination, training, skills development and skills to make an impact on public affairs between the various associations of persons with disabilities. Activity
74. Promote coordination among the various associations of persons with disabilities, to strengthen their participation in public policy debates at all levels and to strengthen the defense of their interests. Activity
75. Promote training policies geared toward persons with disabilities to develop their skills in public affairs. Activity
76. Strengthening institutional and administrative support to governmental agencies or mechanisms for the promotion and protection of the dignity and rights of persons with disabilities.
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7. Participation in cultural, artistic, sporting and recreational
Objective - To promote public policies to promote culture, sport, recreation and tourism as instruments for human development and citizenship, ensuring that people with disabilities to participate in cultural activities recreational and other activities that promote social inclusion and integral development of individuals on an equal footing. Also promote the use of technical means to develop creative skills, artistic and intellectual in its various manifestations. Description of Activities
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Activity 77. Promote, through national action plans, active participation of people with disabilities in cultural, artistic, sporting and recreational activities. Activity
78. Allocate resources to the promotion of cultural, artistic, sporting and leisure for people with disabilities. Activity
79. Promote organized sports, as a means of promoting and maintaining health through the joint efforts of sports organizations of persons with disabilities and their families and agencies responsible for organizing national and sports activities. Activity
80. Promote conditions for accessible tourism, through agreements with national tourism and hospitality sectors. Activity
81. Promote the reduction or elimination of the cost of access for people with disabilities to installations offering tourist services, recreational and leisure activities, cultural performances, sporting events and other activities for public access. Activity
82. Ensure training of persons with disabilities to work in the areas of tourism, culture, sport and recreation. Activity
83. Promote greater awareness about the abilities and contributions of athletes and artists with disabilities
Activity 84. Promote the development, study and development of artistic professions of people with disabilities to promote creativity, self-esteem and communication, from his childhood in an environment of equality, dignity and mutual respect that is conducive to achieving a better quality of life for that sector of the population.
Scope 8. Welfare and Social Assistance
Objective - To ensure access for people with disabilities to welfare programs and social security, and guarantee social assistance measures aimed their families. Description of Activities
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Activity 85. Incorporate into the welfare system and social welfare, rules which take into account the specific characteristics of people with disabilities in regard to working hours, time of contribution and retirement patterns. Activity
86. Ensure access for people with disabilities, particularly women, children and the elderly, social assistance programs and strategies for poverty reduction. Activity
87. Ensure access, under conditions of equality of persons with disabilities and their families to programs of food security, potable water, basic sanitation and housing, and its inclusion in them.
Scope 9.
International Cooperation Objective - To promote international cooperation as an effective instrument to support national efforts involving partnerships among various actors at national, regional and international levels, including the private sector and civil society organizations, particularly those specializing in the field. Description of Activities
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Activity 88. Promote within the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS) and in the international arena, programs and projects to exchange experiences and information, capacity building and institutional strengthening among states, multilateral organizations, private sector organizations civil society. Activity
89. Promote and encourage other cooperative initiatives among the OAS Member States, as genuine mechanism of American solidarity, to design and implement programs and projects that facilitate the exchange of experiences and information, strengthening human and institutional capacity, with collaboration and participation of multilateral organizations and civil society organizations .. Activity
90. To instruct the organs, agencies and entities of the OAS and other inter-American organizations, as appropriate, collaborate with the Secretariat General on all aspects of planning and implementation, since their cooperation will be essential to achieving the objectives the Decade. Activity
91. Encourage civil society organizations specializing in this area to support the Secretary General and Member States in implementing the Programme of Action, in accordance with the guidelines for the participation of society civil activities of the OAS.
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