Dube, A., 2005, Participation Of Disabled People In The PRSP/PEAP Process In Uganda, Thematic evaluation

2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.8. Strengthening IE with attention to people with disabilities

Recommendation: 1) Involve people with disabilities in developing national or local strategies to eradicate poverty.

Reference: Dube, A., 2005, Participation Of Disabled People In The PRSP/PEAP Process In Uganda, Thematic evaluation, Disability Knowledge & Research, DFID, London.

Evidence sample: the evaluation shares the experience of disability organisations in the formulation of Uganda’s national poverty reduction strategy paper.

Uganda was the first country to develop a poverty reduction strategy plan (PRSP). Disabled people were involved in the development of the third phase of the PRSP/Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP). The research on which this report is based sought to document the experience of the disability movement in its engagement with the development and evolution of the PEAP, and to draw out potential lessons for disability movements in other countries involved in PRSP processes. What is clear is that for DPOs to effectively influence policies, in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa, the policy environment must be conducive to the participation and inclusion of disability components in government and other programmes. Of course, disabled people’s participation in the formulation of the PRSP in Uganda increased democratic ownership of the process.