Country Report Independent Living Movement in Nepal

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Country ReportIndependent Living Movement in
Nepal

• Krishna Gautam
• National Council on Independent Living Nepal
  (NCILN) and
• CIL Kathmandu

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Glance to the Nepal
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Situation of PWDs in Nepal

• A Situation Analysis of Disability in Nepal,
  carried out by NPC and UNICEF- in 2001
• More than 90 of the households surveyed
  expressed that having PWDs in families creates
  problems.
• About 30 of PWDs did not receive any treatment
  at all while more than 83 who visited health
  facilities did not benefit from the services.
• More than 70 of PWDs had difficulty living in
  the community.
• More than 68 of PWDs had no education.
• More than 79 of PWDs were found to be dependant
  on their families

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Independent Living Movement in Nepal

• The Success of great Peoples Movement 2005
• End 204 long King Monarchy
• Established Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
• Legally registered Independent Living Center in
  Nepal
• Find IL the New concept, New philosophy, New
  Principles, New Culture
• 11 IL Centers establish and formed new IL
  Network, National Council on Independent Living
  Nepal NCILN

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Activities Carried Out by ILCs

• Advocacy, Disability Awareness Campaigns and
  Barrier free Campaigns
• Facilitation to have access to assistive devices
  and Personal Assistant Service
• Human Right Education to promote the rights of
  PWDs
• Conducting ILP, IL trainings, Peer Counseling,
  information and Referral Services, support
  housing and accommodation to PWDs.
• Support ILCs financially and technically to
  exercise IL activities

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CIL major initiatives for accessibility movement
in Nepal

• 1. Organizational approaches
• 2.Coperate and coordination approaches
• 3.Medias Campaign approaches
• 4. Supporting individual approaches

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Corporate and coordinate approaches

• Working with local government to improve access
  in reality for making public toilet accessible
• Working with banking sectors for mutual benefit,
  working central government and local government.
• Eg accessibility guidelines, local government
  level policies and programs

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Some of the samples
Government schools
Ministries office
Post office
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Media Campaign approaches

• Making Documentary, interaction with medias,
  publishing success stories and its impacts
  through medias so on

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Media Campaigns
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Supporting individual approaches

• Supporting/ Consultant services companies,
  Individuals to individual who initiates the
  activities.
• Eg British Council access audit, US embassy
  Access audit, consultant services to Nepal for
  making accessibility guidelines

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Challenges

• Political Instability in Nepal
• Lack of Constitution
• Lack of Accessibility focus organization and
  knowledge on it
• Technical Education Curriculam
• Lack of Implementation mechanism both in
  government and dpos.
• Lack of Policies, programs and expertise and
  research bas activities

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Opportunities

• New constitution still on coming process
• Ratification UNCRPD
• Launching IL concept and popular among PWDs and
  Civil Society.
• Domestication of national laws, bylaws, policies
  on the spirit of UNCRPD eg. Old act,
  accessibility guidelines, definition of
  disability
• Supreme court has ordered government to make
  policies and programs regarding the social
  security of severe disability.

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