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Preparedness of civil society in Botswana to advance disability inclusion in programmes addressing gender-based and other forms of violence against women and girls with disabilities
- Source :
- African Journal of Disability, Vol 9, Iss 0, Pp e1-e13 (2020), African Journal of Disability (Online), Volume: 9, Pages: 1-13, Published: 2020, African Journal of Disability
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- AOSIS, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background: In low-income and middle-income countries women and girls with disabilities are more likely to experience violence than those without disabilities. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) can help to address this. However, in countries like Botswana we know little about the preparedness of NGOs and DPOs to increase inclusion in and access to programmes addressing violence.Objectives: To explore the capacity and preparedness of NGOs and DPOs to ensure that women and girls with disabilities can participate in and access programmes addressing violence.Methods: A qualitative study was undertaken using interviews with 17 NGOs and DPOs in Botswana to understand the organisations’ level of and ability to deliver programmes addressing violence against women and girls.Results: Both NGOs and DPOs lack elements of universal design and reasonable accommodation, and thus are inaccessible to some people with disabilities. Some programmes address violence against women but lack skills and resources to accommodate people with disabilities. In contrast, DPOs work with people with disabilities, but lack focus on violence against women with disabilities. Participants identified opportunities to fill these gaps, including adaptation of policies and structural changes, training, approaches to mainstream disability across programmes, development of disability-specific interventions and improved networking.Conclusions: Botswana’s NGOs and DPOs are well positioned to address violence against women and girls with disabilities, but need to increase their accessibility, staff knowledge and skills and disability inclusion. Training, resource allocation and participation of women with disabilities in NGOs and DPOs is needed to drive this change
- Subjects :
- Civil society
Universal design
Psychological intervention
lcsh:Medicine
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
gender-based violence (GBV)
hiv
violence
lcsh:HT51-1595
Political science
0502 economics and business
Mainstream
participation
Original Research
Botswana
business.industry
botswana
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
05 social sciences
Rehabilitation
lcsh:R
050301 education
HIV
lcsh:RA1-1270
Public relations
Preparedness
Reasonable accommodation
gender-based violence (gbv)
lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races
business
0503 education
Inclusion (education)
050203 business & management
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22267220 and 22239170
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- African Journal of Disability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....526a0ee49e79b9608320f001fdb121ec