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RESEARCH
UNDERTAKEN
1) Release of Report on Domestic
Violence against Women with disabilities and
the Girl Child- 16th February 2005
Domestic Violence
This survey focused on identifying the
various levels and dimensions in which women
with disabilities faced discrimination and
violation. Using a social constructionist
perspective on both disability and violation
of rights, amounting to violence, the survey
focused on denial of rights and domestic
violence as having become a norm, a part of
these women's everyday life. The study
revealed massive violence against Women and
Girl Child with disabilities. They are
victims of range of abuse and discrimination
that they encounter in their families and in
public life. Majority of those interviewed
revealed that Women and Girl child with
disabilities are denied their basic rights
such as food, personal grooming social
isolation and lack of medical attention.
They face violence ranging from sexual
abuse, physical assault, mental and
emotional abuse.
2) Access Audit Surveys
Status of Physical Access in Orissa
Status of Attitudinal Access in Orissa
Status of Physical in Public and Private
Institutions in Orissa.
The Access Audit will present and provide
facts and figures on the status and level of
physical access for People With Disabilities
(PWD) in the state of Orissa. The audit is
the first to be conducted in the entire
state and presents the latest account (till
February 2005) on the status and level of
physical access in public and private
institutions
For instance all of 19 PWDs who were
interviewed within the institutions decried
the poor status of access in these
institutions. The study revealed that 84% of
the State institutions in Orissa are
inaccessible to PWDs. Access to public
utility and communication facilities are
entirely missing in these key institutions.
Status of Attitudinal Access in Public and
Private Institutions in Orissa.
This audit provides information on the
status of attitudinal access situation for
people with disabilities in main public and
private institutions in state of Orissa.
Being the first to be conducted in Orissa,
it makes recommendations and benchmarks upon
which future improvements on attitudinal
access for PWDs can be made and measured.
The audit exercise revealed a glaring
situation of attitudinal access among key
public and private institutions in Orissa.
These institutions are not aware of
disability issues, they are irresponsive and
insensitive to the needs and experiences of
persons with disability. It was shocking
that many of them have not employed PWDs in
spite of the law providing for job
reservation, they do not have schemes for
PWDs. Their perceptions and knowledge of
disability was disheartening.
Other studies conducted by Swabhiman
3) Preliminary Study on Mental Health
Services in Orissa
Conducted a study on Urban Slum Survey
2002 on Children who had access to
education, had aids and appliances and
Adults who were in Jobs
4) Carried out a study on Inclusive
Education in Orissa 2002 as part of
Exercise by Action Aid RO, Bhubaneswar
5) Conducted preliminary Mental
Health Study 2003 in Orissa
TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING
1. Training workshop on Reporting issues of
Access- Involving students of Communication
and Journalism at Indian Institute of Mass
Communication, Dhenkanal.
2. Design Workshop o Accessibility- given to
Architecture and Engneering students of
College of Engneering and Technology (CET)
in Bhubaneswar.
3. Disability Equality Training-
Sensitisation Seminar on Disability to
District Administration and the Government
Department staffs at Dhenkanal District
Collectorate.
4. Disability laws- Creating Awareness on
three main Laws on Disability which include
PWD Act 1995, National Trust Act 1999 and
RCI Act 1992
5. Understanding disability- We have been
providing various training modules to build
the capacity of the disability movement in
Orissa as well as strengthen interventions
by various stakeholders working in
disability sector.
6. Definition, Types, Identification and
Prevention of Disability-Covering
understanding the concept of disability,
diagnosis and primary Health Care
intervention in prevention of disability.
7. Disability Equity Training- Aimed at
exploring how communitieies can create
change
8. Training on Disability Awareness
Conducted to grassroot level organisations
and b Panchyat Raj Instituions
9. Rehabilitation Facilities for People With
Disabilities- Creating Awareness on the
Concessions, Facilities and Provisions for
PWDs.
10. Social Research skills in Data
Processing and Analysis- This module covers
all Preliminaries to Data Analysis with
illustrations of how Data are prepared for
analysis. An important part of this module
is to learn how to manipulate data
numerically and to interpret the outcome.
11. Training in Statistical Package for
Social Sciences- This is an important
statistical programme that simplifies huge
amounts of research data and database
information and provides summaries in a
quantitative format. Learning this
statistical package enables researchers and
document list to search and summarize
massive data with speed and to create key
relationships between variables in a set of
relationships.
12. Training in Excel Applications in Data
Processing - Learn how to enter different
data into an excel worksheet and Use of
special features
13. Training in project documentation and
Access Database.-This forms the main
programme Database where all activities and
events relating to programme work are
documented.
14. Training on Report writing skills- This
covers formats for documenting daily
activities in covering all the programme
areas. This information is constituted into
a Computer Database that can be used to
generate various reports and summaries base
on key project/activity heads.
15. Developing work plans-This constitutes
development of weekly, monthly, quarterly
and annual work plans with clear targets
with indicators for determining
achievements.
16. Monitoring and Evaluation framework- The
training is based on the Logframe approach
that ensures logic in the implementation
plan on how to achieve the desirable impact
from the effects, results, inputs and
activities in meeting the set objectives
that will contribute to attainment of the
overall goal of social programmes
interventions.
PUBLICATIONS AND POSTERS
Posters
Posters and portraits on access in all its
forms; communication, physical, financial,
attitudinal and education access issues
Posters and publications on rights issues;
legal cell, domestic violence,
non-discrimination, slogans, Voting Rights.
Posters on inclusive education campaign;
Anjali, inclusive school environments
Flexes of all seminars, workshops, events
and meetings held by Swabhiman
Publications
Blue File
The first and only quarterly compilation of
newspaper articles on disability and HIV/
AIDs (English & Oriya)
Giant Leaps Forward Our quarterly
newsletter.(English)
Laws for the Disabled in India The first
published book in India on all laws
(National and International) relating to
disability.(English)
A Hand book on Concessions &Facilities for
Persons With Disabilities- The first and
only published compilation in India on
government, bank and other facilities for
disabled people. (English & Oriya)
Disability Etiquette - The first and only
published book on etiquette while
communicating with disabled people. (Eng &
Oriya)
PWD Act 1995 (Simplified & Pictorial
Version) Oriya
National Trust Act 1999 - (Simplified &
Pictorial version) Oriya
Ludo Game (English and Oriya)
Book Marks on- Violence Against Disabled
Women and Inclusive Education.
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