Disability Management Interventions Measures: A Case of Luweero Town Council.
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2007-10
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Kampala International University ,College of humanities and social science
Abstract
The study established the current intervention measures in the disability
management process within Luweero Town Council. The intervention measures in
this context include projects or activities both planned and implemented to prevent
disabilities and the efforts toward the inclusion of PWDs into the mainstream. While
managing disabilities involved all the activities put in place by all the actors to alter
risk factors and those exposed to them and perhaps to integrate PWDs.
This review summarises the literature on disability and its relationship with the
applied preventive, curative and integrative measures. With the help of
questionnaires, interviews, and observations various activities were identified and
included immunisation, primary health care, physiotherapy, artificial limbs,
rehabilitation services, counseling, special needs education and teachers, and
PWD friendly structures, policies which protect their dignity have been formulated
and amended, represented in both local councils and in parliament and above all,
ensuring equal opportunities among all people irrespective of their differences.
In spite of all these endeavours, the projects have not realized their goals to
capacity and the study has tried to provide a deeper analysis of the barriers and
challenges affecting these efforts. Social challenges seemed to be the core
impediments to the managerial process. Social ostracism, complacency of parents
when catenng for their CWDs and the community’s attitude that PWDs are
interlopers and contemptuous in their own communities were evident. PWDs
raised their voices, but seem intoned because the government is still conniving.
In a bid to over come all these, a number of recommendations have been made to
increase the effectiveness of all stakeholders particularly the planners, actors and
the general community that the management process is every body’s concern.
Through a social or holistic system, resources spent will be reduced. The need for
being platonic to PWDs as the impacts of these interventions are sti[Limperceptible
is required too. Saying that PWDs are still interlopers in spite of gleeful
interventions, is an axiom.
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A Thesis Submitted To The school Of Postgraduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment For The Requirements For The Award Of A Master Of Arts In Project Planning And Management Of Kampala International University.
Keywords
Disability Management, Interventions, Luweero Town Council