inclusion & challenges

Inclusion & Challenges

Arab Children’s Health Congress 2010

Child Accident Prevention

Moussa Charafeddine MD

Societal Platforms

• Historic Development of Community

• Towards Ideal Wellbeing for each

• Mutual Cooperation

• Religious and Civil Conventions

• United Nation Declarations

Universal Regulations

• Spiritual Values

• Islamic Ressalah, Qouran, & Sunnah

• Human, Women, Child’s Rights

• People with Disability Rights

• Equality & Full Participation

Societal Disability Criteria

• Cultural Development

• Social Development

• Knowledge, Technical, & Economical

• Efficiency of Civil NGOs

• Efficiency of Disabled & Families

• Definitions /Stigmata

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES (CWDs)

Who are they?

What are their issues and concerns?

• 15 Million children with disabilities• more boys than girls• 1:5 children in 0–6 age bracket has

some form of disability • 10–14 age group has the highest

prevalence rate • most common forms of impairment

are Motor and Intellectual impairment

• more than half are acquired and can be prevented

ACCD

Children with Disabilities

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations

• concerned about the de facto discrimination faced by CWDs and their invisible role in society

• inadequate implementation of the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons

• many CWDs live in poverty and access to social and health services and education is limited.

• need to collect statistical data on CWDs

Data source: UN CRC

Extend of equality

Terms: ethnicity, Gender, Normalcy

Disabled Have Social Entity

They are entitled as other

They have Special Needs too

Rights & Obligations

Impact of Disability

•Needs & Demands•Services•Needs & Services

Reverse Proportion •

Needs & Demands

• Physical, Medical , Psychological

• Familial Educational

• Vocational Training, Employment

• ٍ�Social , housing, Independent

A Child-Friendly Child-Sensitive Society

Being WELL

• Physically, Psychologically

• Communication, Knowledge

• Social Interaction

• Sense of belonging, Security

• Participation & Contribution

Measurements

• Variable level of services

• Vital Basic Needs

• Theoretical Measures

• Practical Measures

-SOCIAL MODEL

• Basic influential Factor

• Stigmata, Values, Norms

• Proportionate to Social Image

• Promote or reduces RIGHTS

• Decisive of Life Quality

Social Image-HUNT

•UNFORTUNATE

•INVALID

•USELESS

•DIFFERENT

1975 ,UPAIS DPI-

•Disability “doe’s not mean impotence, & deprivation from social contribution & Interaction”

MIKE OLIVER -93Then DPI

• “Disabled people are victims of an imposed social image”

•Helin Kellers Comments

Universal Instructions

• Equality Full Participation

• Equal Opportunity

• Integration

• CRPD

DIVERSITY-II

• All are different all are equal

• Social Integration Components

• Individual, Group, Govern. Roles

• Role of Disabled & Family

• Coordination & Monitoring

CBR

•WHO

•ILO

•UNESCO

•Social Policies

MDG

• Almata WHO 1987

• Equal Opport-194ILO-

• Thialand, Salamanka I.FA

• Inclusive Education

Integration/Inclusion

•ٍ�Application NORMALIZATION - MAINSTREEAMING - INCLUSION

• Variable levels on the Ground

Inclusion Platforms

•Educational•Rehabilitation•Vocational•Social

Suitability Criteria

•Theoretical•Practical•Sustainability

Stake Holders• Commitment to Conventions• Willingness to Change• Flexibility of the Social Policies• Availability of Believes and

Visions• Availability of tools & Instruments

DEVELOPMENTAL

• Financial Resources

• Technical Availability

• Democracy

• Gender Equality

Arab Development Index

• Arab World is wealthier than developed.

• Wide range of Economical Development

• 1999 Arab GDP are less than Spain

• Translated books in century<Year-Spain

• Investments of foreign funds<Year-Singapore

• 15% unemployment rate. 25% in 2010

• Low levels of Inequality

The Deficits in Arab World

• Bureauc. constraints-Freedom

• Lowest women Participation.• Research Development is less

than 1/7 th of Average

Globalization vs Inclusion

• Instructions, & Recipes

• Variable Dosage

• Inclusion, & Globalization must not CRIPL

• Basic Needs- Knowledge, Means.

• Without such factors no sustainable development

Sustainability

• CRPD Ratification• Wealth, & Social Contribution • Prevalence of Legislation • Generations of trained CWDisablity• Change of Norms and Attitudes• Regaining of Islamic & Arab

Heritage