Publication Date
2004
208 p, ill
This report from the Disability Monitor Initiative for South East Europe addresses the unsteady transition within the Balkan countries toward a system that enables and empowers disabled people at all levels. For this region this transition means moving forward with the process of de-institutionalisation and promoting community based services and independent living facilities.
Only through the sharing of information and a mutual learning process between all stakeholders and countries, can the goal of an inclusive society be achieved. This report gives an overview about all the affected fields and gives stakeholders as well as NGOs from other countries a good insight into how these processes can work
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Keywords
Disability and community; community; Health; systems: health workforce; Cross-cutting; advocacy; awareness raising; Inclusion; exclusion and discrimination; systems: leadership and governance; Rehabilitation; management (service delivery); inclusion and mainstreaming; Education; formal education; Livelihoods; work and employment; Human rights; legal capacity and recognition; participation