SL Network Meeting - Accessibility and Mainstreaming Disability

DRAFT: Mainstreaming Disability - Workshop 22 February (facilitator Greg Cowan)

Secure Livelihoods Volunteers note that they want to continue to work on mainstreaming disability during the period of exit from Ulaanbaatar-based placements and refocus toward rural areas. We feel the current work on mainstreaming disability has been logistically and financially possible largely because of centralised working of secure livelihoods volunteers in the capital.

We would like to continue to work with stakeholders in positive action to raise awareness and create sustainable behavioural change, supporting people with disabiities and increasing accessibility and participation. We have begun this with the Accessibility group at VSO and in working with the Mongoian National Federation of Disabled Peoples Organisations MNFDPO and the Mongolian Wheelchair Users-Citizens Association MTIX.

Secure Livelihoods volunteers in Technical and Vocational Educational and Training should be encouraged to continue for example, to work with the (Ulaanbaatar headquartered) Mongolian Youth Federation on widening access to people with disabilities. See this blog