The official statement on the 18th Women with Disabilities Day

WATCH: The official statement on the 18th Women with Disabilities Day on the theme “Kababaihang may Kapansanan sa New Normal: Kapantay, Kaisa at Kasama sa Inklusibong Kaunlaran”.
Recognizing the rights, role and participation of women with disabilities in promoting gender- responsive and inclusive development, we are one with government agencies, non- government organizations, the private sector, and persons with disability organizations to
advocate, lobby and support among others:
1. Accessibility of schools, training facilities, workplaces and polling places taking in
consideration the needs of women with disabilities.
2. Establish Disability structures or support services in education institutions to address
accessibility requirements and facilitate participation of students with disabilities.
3. Make online education and trainings accessible to persons with disabilities, including
women with disabilities using available software and applications.
4. Equalize participation of men and women with disabilities in education, livelihood,
employment opportunities, electoral process and forms of political participation
through access to information, assistive devices, skills trainings, technological and
funding support.
5. Create online jobs and make available work from home arrangement for persons with
disabilities especially women with disabilities who are mothers and homemakers.
6. Create more business opportunities and enterprises targeting women with
disabilities in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA).
7. Adopt a policy establishing a gender and disability-sensitive schools, training
facilities and workplaces.
8. Build the capacity of teachers, trainers and employers, election personnel and other
frontline service providers in assisting persons with disabilities through gender and
disability sensitivity trainings.
9. Compliance to RA 10524, mandating all government agencies to reserve 1% of its
workforce to persons with disabilities including women with disabilities.
10. LGUs to support the organizing of women with disabilities groups and their
empowerment as advocates of gender equality and participants of disability
inclusive local governance.
Let us continue to work together in empowering women with disabilities through gender-
responsive and disability inclusive education system, work places and electoral process.
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