Disability Development Programmes and Rehabilitative Services

Disability Development Programmes and Rehabilitative Services Division

It has three mandates as per Executive Order No. 1 of 2020 namely:

Spearhead development and review of Polices and Bills in relation to Persons with Disabilities.
Spearhead development, dissemination and implementation of a national strategy on disability mainstreaming.

Awareness creation on disability and mainstreaming.
Mobilization and empowerment of Persons with Disabilities for social-economic activities.
Development and maintenance of databank of PWD and institutions.
Liaison to agencies offering support to Persons with Disabilities e.g. NCPWD, NFD.
Develop exit strategy for families with PWDs in CT programme in collaboration with SAU.
Collaboration with organizations of and for Persons with Disabilities.
Liaison and collaboration with UN agencies offering support to Persons with Disabilities

Oversee skills training of Persons with Disabilities in the VRCs.
Promote development of infrastructure to suit needs of Persons with Disabilities.
Rehabilitation and re integration Persons with Disabilities.
Promote entrepreneurship development and empowerment of VRC graduates (provision of start -up tool kits).
Promote development of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) and placement