Since December 2017, through the project "Empowering People with Disabilities through Information and Awareness", ADRF, with the support and cooperation of UNDP is working to empower people with disabilities in the municipalities of Debar, Ura Vajgurore and Përmet , in order for them to REQUEST and TAKE IT/ BENEFIT THE RIGHT SOCIAL SERVICES by the local authorities, thus contributing to their social inclusion. This project is being implemented under the “Leave No One Behind” program - a United Nations Joint Program, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Project Interventions:

A. Power through information:

  • Conducting a study on the level of knowledge of people with disabilities on existing policies, legislation and services for people with disabilities.
  • Building a database of existing policies and legislation in the field of disability, placing information in electronic form on the ADRF website, as well as in printed format, including in simplified language, in Braille, in audio video and Albanian translation of signs.
  • Organizing information days in about 96 administrative units around 1500 people with disabilities and their families.

B. Community mobilization, networking and impact on decision-making processes:

  • Establishment in each of the three municipalities of groups and networks with community activists
    • young people with disabilities,
    • girls and women with disabilities,
    • children with disabilities and their families
  • Training of activists of all three groups on the issues of persons with disabilities and advocacy
  • Involvement of trained activists in the realization of information days, mainly in remote areas
  • Engaging activists in decision-making processes of local institutions for quality services for people with disabilities.

C. Awareness:

  • Conducting a survey with the general public to understand the public's attitudes towards people with disabilities, their level of awareness and acceptance towards this group.
  • Implementing an awareness campaign to challenge social attitudes that prevent the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

Publications

Information sheets