INTRODUCTION | PDF: Report on Mainstreaming CWD

‘Mainstreaming the Children and People with Disability through People’s Organisations’ is one major project in recent times as well as the central programme for decades of SARPV.

SARPV ran a 3 year (September 2008 August 2011) pilot project, under the auspices of Bangladesh Freedom Foundation. In the union of Durgapur in Kapasia upazilla of Gazipur district the project was accomplished.

The purpose was to strengthen the union or ward based people’s organisations (in particular, Disabled People’s Organisations- DPOs) in a sustaining way so that they mainstream the children and people with disability and make people aware about disability towards an attitudinal change in favour people with disability through their own participation.

SARPV commissioned this study considering that the project had made a significant impact on overall development programmes and processes in the project location in mainstreaming people with disability. Within the scopes of the project plan and budget, in consultation with its funding organisation BFF, SARPV commissioned this independent study to understand such impact.

The project location for piloting the concept of ‘Mainstreaming People with Disability through People’s Organisations’ was selected as one adjacent to SARPV’s similar project, running in larger scale with different strategies, in Kapasia. The project location was chosen considering its backwardness and newness in terms of mainstreaming intervention.

This study is neither an evaluation, nor a full impact study, looking into the direct causality relationship between the input and outputs, or the quality of the intervention. The study looks for the changes that the project partners consider have taken place because of the project intervention.

It compiles the verses “straight from the horse’s mouth” and matches with the evidences, as outlined in short case-studies of persons and incidences.

This report is designed in following parts: Description of the project and the implementing organisation SARPV; Introduction to the study and its methodology; Key findings from the opinions of the project partners; Analysis of the findings; Recommendations; and Conclusion.