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Monday, August 31, 2020
Saturday, August 29, 2020
WELLBEING OF CARERS IN DISABILITY REHABILITATION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR CSOs
Paper published in Intentional Multidisciplinary Journal during August 2020 Online ISSN : 2277 - 4262
ABSTRACT
Carers wellbeing in training and rehabilitation
of persons with disabilities gains priority as poverty, disability and
development works as a cause and consequence of each other resulting for
deepening of poverty with vulnerabilities for disability. Having a child with special needs or disabilities
needs special environment at family with training and care. The need and care
cum training of such children vary depending upon their category and severity
of disability. The parents in general and particularly mothers do bear such
care cum training in addition to their regular house work. The Rights and
Provisions made under these Acts and Policies, Persons with Disabilities needs
care and training as part of rehabilitation to get them empowered for improved
abilities and thus to be part of mainstream community and to get better
solution to the concern of parents that “what will happen to the child after
us?”. Carers can play a key role in the
whole processes of care cum training of Persons with Disabilities. The needs of
the targeted groups are specific and Careers have to be equipped to do the
needful and on the other side, wellbeing of Carers gains priority. The model of
disability rehabilitation works with wide service spectrum stating from early identification
to empowerment for better living in an inclusive and accessible community. The challenges
of Carers and opportunities opened for their development and growth are
specific and need based. The initiatives taken up have resulted for significant
impact in the lives of Carers and are simple, flexible, scalable, replicable
and sustainable.
Development and Disability
Poverty, Disability and Development are the cause and consequences of each other and further deepens poverty with vulnerabilities for disability. Water has been added as fourth dimension which control every activity or development on this globe. Water security is the priority area and present situation is alarming to the stakeholders to look for better alternatives with sustainability. In view of such complex and dynamic situation, Disability Rehabilitation (DR) gains priority as the Nation is looking for Disability Free Society (DFS). In short, Disability should be seen as two sides of the same coin as on one side it is concentrating on Rehabilitation (of PWDs) and Prevention (causes of disabilities) on the second side where both have to move side by side with innovative and creative strategies and interventions. The role of Carers with multisectoral and multidisciplinary approaches at all levels gains priority for better coordination with improved effectiveness and efficiency with planned outputs and impact.
Conclusions
The study made
on the role of Carers in Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities and their
wellbeing has resulted for several conclusions and some of them include:
ü The wellbeing of
the careers in training and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities (PWDs)
gains priority as poverty, disability and development works as a cause and
consequence of each other resulting for deepening of poverty with
vulnerabilities for disability.
ü Having a child
with special needs or disabilities needs special environment at family. The
parents and other family members are unaware of such children’s needs and ways
to cater them.
ü The parents in
general and particularly mothers do bear such care cum training in addition to
their regular house work and livelihoods or income generation (daily wage or
agricultural work) activity in some cases.
ü In view of the
Rights and Provisions made under Acts and Policies, Children with Special needs
(CWSNs) or Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) needs care and training as part of
rehabilitation.
ü Parents are more
concerned about “what will happen to the child after us?” and expect a better solution
when they get aged or no more.
ü In the whole
processes of care cum training of Persons with Disabilities needs Carers who
can provide care and training facilities at Home, Community and Training
Centers.
ü Carer’s
wellbeing gains priority as they play a key role in working for their
empowerment and to mainstem them with needs based services and supports on life
cycle basis.
ü Disability Acts
and Policies works for the empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (both
Socially and Economically) for better living in an accessible and inclusive
environment & community with improved quality of life (QOL).
ü The needs of
Persons with Disabilities include Health Care, Screening, Assessment, Early Identification,
Certification, Early Intervention, Training and Rehabilitation, Education
(Formal or Non Formal including Special Education), Skill Development,
Employment or Livelihoods or Income Generation (IGP) Programme, Environment as
Barrier Free BEE), Protection, and Security in an inclusive community.
ü The model of training and rehabilitation of
Persons with Disabilities on life cycle basis will work for their empowerment
for better living either independently or with limited supports.
ü The care provided
by Carers can be paid or unpaid depending upon their nature of and their
purpose and thus gains priority.
ü The services
provided to PWDs by Carers include: Personal Care, Domestic Care, Physical
Care, Health care, Communication Care, Environmental Care, and Financial
Care.
ü The wellbeing of
Carers includes: Emotional, Spiritual, Intellectual, Occupational, Environmental,
Financial, Physical, and Social so that they will be protected well for better
living with improved quality of life.
ü The Carers do
face several challenges while providing caring services to the persons with
disabilities and do get affected with: shortage of manpower, low recognition,
poor economic security, and social security with poor quality of life.
ü The cumulative
effect of opportunities for Carers will work for their empowerment with better
openings, employment, income generation, system of serving others with
effectiveness and efficiency, recognition, image, awards, security,
satisfaction, and wellbeing or improved quality of life.
ü The initiatives
taken up for the Carers working for the disability rehabilitation have
supported for their development, growth, security both social and economic,
recognition, and wellbeing.
ü The strategies and
initiatives used in the study are simple, flexible, scalable, replicable and sustainable
matching to the dynamics of the given environment.
Recommendations
The wellbeing of
the Cares gains priority as they play a key role in the whole processes of empowering
Persons with Disabilities and recommendations made include:
- To
give priority for the Parents, Siblings and other Family Members to be the
Carers of Disability Rehabilitation.
- To enhance
the capacities and skills of the Carers for delivering services and supports
with better effectiveness and efficiency.
- To support
for the Educational growth of the Carers with need based Courses of Disability
Sector.
- To support
Carers for better participation, presentation and organization of trainings,
workshops, and seminars on aspects of Disability.
- To support
for the income generation of the Carers with participation of the Persons
with Disabilities.
- To support
for the development and growth of the Carers both Socially and Economically
with improved wellbeing.
- To support
the Carers to transform themselves as a Service Providers with wide service
spectrum matching to the needs of the targeted group on life cycle basis.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: ROLE OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS
The above titled paper has been published in the Edited Book titled "SOCIAL WORK PRACTICES IN INDIA" in July 2020 with ISBN:978-93-88106-17-7.Brief details of the same include:
ABSTRACT
Persons
with Disabilities are the most marginalized affecting with stigma, bias,
violence, crime and are isolated from mainstream development. In view of
paradigm shift from welfare to empowerment with rights, Persons with
Disabilities should be part of the inclusive and accessible community with
equality, respect, dignity and justice and thus Community Organizations gains
priority. Disability is unexpected in any family and do affect the dynamics of
the family and community with more vulnerabilities for deepening poverty with
poor quality of life. Disability in any family or community is treated as an
additional burden as it needs special environment at all places. Poverty,
Development and Disability works as a cause and consequence of each other and
thus disability gains priority. Government came up with several Disability Acts
& Polices to provide training and rehabilitation services and supports to Persons
with Disabilities as an empowerment for independent living in an accessible and
inclusive community. These processes also work for the prevention of the causes
of disabilities to develop Disability Free Society. United Nations Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and amended Rights of Persons with
Disabilities Act provides several rights with the target of inclusion of
Persons with Disabilities with equality, dignity and respect like their
counterparts in the same community. In view of this, community gains priority
as the strategies, interventions, and practices are need based matching to its
resources and other dynamics. Community Based Organizations were emerged to
work for the rehabilitation cum development of Disability Population with
better participation, accountability, responsibility and transparency.
Government, Private and Community Organizations working on partnership proved
effective and efficient. The strategies, practices and interventions are
community based and are simple, flexible, scalable, replicable and
sustainable.
Statement of the Study
Persons
with Disabilities (PWDs) are the most marginalized affecting with stigma, bias,
violence, crime etc., and are isolated from mainstream development. In view of
paradigm shift from welfare to empowerment with rights, PWDs should be part of
the inclusive and accessible community with equality, respect, dignity and
justice and thus Community Organizations gains priority.
GPC Partnership
It is the reality that, Disability is the subject of Government and do face several limitations in reaching disability population and for catering their needs. The key limitations include service delivery systems (SDSs) which are dominant of top down approaches (TDAs) and limited Resources. Knowing this, Government looks for the second player in the form of Private who can fill the gap in Resources to some extent but not in reaching the disability population. The process of working of Government with Private is well known as Public Private Partnership (PPP) which mostly works with large scale infrastructural projects like Dams, Airports, Metro Rail, Power Generation, Roads, and other such which mostly work on business model. With the provision of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate gains priority for giving back (out of their profits) to the People and Community. It is the general observation that Government, Private and Corporate works for the empowerment of persons with disabilities staying away from them or the community. That is one on the key limitations in reaching and serving disability population. The search still continues to look for better alternative player who stay within or very near to the community and that ends at Community Based Organizations (CBOs), or Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), or Disabled Peoples Organizations (DPOs), or Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), or Parents Associations (PAs) which works as per the guidelines of Acts under which they got registered. The proposed partnership of Government, Private, and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) known as Government Private and NGO (GPN) Partnership (GPNP).
Recommendations
In
view of the dynamic needs of the Persons with Disabilities, the study needs to
be continued and the recommendations made include:
ü Create
Awareness on the mode of Advocacy on various aspect of Disabilities and ways to
move forward to overcome the same.
ü Encourage
for multisectoral and multidisciplinary approaches and practices for effective
and efficient service devilry systems both in rehabilitation and prevention of
the causes of disabilities.
ü Support
Students and Edcuational Institutions for taking up Projects Works and Research
Studies on various aspects of Disabilities with inclusive approaches and
practices.
ü Support
to organize Trainings, Workshops, Conferences and Seminars on Disability as
part of mainstreamed development.
ü Facilitate
for the development of Content and Publications both in Print and Electronic
mode with better availability, accessibility, and affordability for all.
Support CBOs to work with Government, and Private (Corporate) on the mode of Partnership (GPCP).
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
JAL SHAKTI ABHIYAN FOR WATER SECURITY - OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
Paper published in i SOCIAL VISION - Vl 6, Issue 4 January - March 2020 with ISSN 2349-0519
“Conserve Rainwater to Save the Water for
Future
as Water is Priceless Gift of Nature for happy
and healthy living”
ABSTRACT
Water is the priceless
gift of the nature for the people to develop eco-friendly environment for leading
happy and healthy life with better sustainability. It is the fact and reality
that there is no life without water which cannot be imagined. It reflects the
need and importance of water and its conservation, preservation, utilization, protection,
and management. It is the tradition to worship water bodies known as Gangamata.
Probably, it is one of the reasons that the poverty alleviation programme has
concentrated on Roti (Food), Kapada (Clothing), and Makhan (Housing). In view
of the processes of liberalization, privatization & globalization,
modernization, business oriented development, and their consequences put more pressure
on the natural resources in general and particularly on water resources. All
such unhealthy causes and consequences have resulted for water crises both in
quantity and quality including encroachment or disappearance of water bodies. Poor
availability, accessibility and affordability for ‘Water’ and its mismanagement
has affected the development and growth of the People, Communities and Nation
with droughts, floods, hazards, disasters, crises, disputes, and violence which
finally lowered their quality of life. Nation has got the vision of working for
the Sustainable Development Goals for vision of Empowered India. To achieve
such goals, efforts are going on to conserve, preserve, & utilize water
with effective and efficient management. In this direction, Jal Shakti Abhiyan,
a campaign to work for water conservation and water security and Civil Society
Organizations do paly a key role to work with Government and Private on the
mode of partnership. The models and initiatives are simple, participatory, flexible,
scalable, replicable and sustainable to achieve water security.
Statement
of the Problem
Jal Shakti Abhiyan
The study made on Water Conservation and Water
Security has gained priority and need to be continued and recommendations made include:
Ø Creation of Awareness cum Advocacy on the ways to harvest,
store, conserve, and utilize Water Resources and impact on the growth and development
of People, Communities and Nation at large.
Ø Encourage students to be the volunteers as a change
maker at all levels of Water Cycle with the use of E-Forums and other Technologies.
Ø Support students to take up the Project Works &
Research Studies with priority on community based strategies and interventions.
Ø Support Institutes for conducting Trainings,
Workshops, Conferences, Seminars, and other such events on various aspects of
Water.
Ø Develop Eco-Friendly Environment with effective and
efficient utilization of Natural Resources and thus to secure water for all
with better availability, accessibility and affordability.
Ø Support CSOs / NGOs to work with Government and
Private (Corporate) on Partnership (GPCP) basis with Community Based Initiatives
(CBIs) for better Participation, Accountability, Responsibility and Transparency
(PART) along with Social Auditing and better visibility.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Paper published on "EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES – ROLE IN NATION BUILDING"
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