Harnessing their Potential – The State of Disability in Uganda: Summary Report
This report is a highly visual summary version of a longer situational analysis report. The long report can be found here, and the shorter summary here.
In 2019, Development Pathways was contracted by WFP to conduct a situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Uganda. The analysis comprises four interlinked components: a national representative household survey; qualitative life-history data; a review of the “disability architecture”; and a diagnostic of existing social protection programmes.
This summary report provides an overview of the key findings of the final Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development report. It examines the vulnerabilities and risks that persons with disabilities, and their caregivers, face across their lifecycle and includes an overview of the additional costs of living with a disability in Uganda, as captured by both quantitive and qualitative data.
The report notes that persons with disabilities, along with their caregivers, possess a wide range of skills and talents that should be harnessed and maximised in Uganda. However, the barriers they face are hindering them from realising their full potential, and many are being left behind. There are a number of gaps in government services which should be addressed to increase resilience and the report recommends that the following schemes are implemented: a child disability benefit, a disability benefit for working-age adults (which also compensates those who can work for the additional costs they experience) and a care/support benefit. A number of other recommendations are also made with the aim of having a transformative effect for persons with disabilities.
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