Disability Work Mapping WVJ supported ADPs 2014

Disability Mapping
among WorldVision Japan
Supported Programs in Asia, Pacific,
Africa and Latin America 2014
MINORU HIRAMOTO, Regional Program Coordinator – East Asia, Integrated Programs Unit,
Program / Operation Department,WorldVision Japan

Disability Mapping among World Vision Japan Supported Programs
in Asia, Pacific, Africa and Latin America 2014 1
Disability Mapping among World Vision Japan Supported Programs in Asia, Pacific,
Africa and Latin America 2014
Contents
Executive Summary … 2
1. Disability Mapping and disability in project/program … 5
2. Prevalence and nature of disabilities in the Program areas … 6
3. WorldVision’s engagement in disability related work … 11
4. Involvement of people with disabilities inWorldVision program activities … 14
5. Partnerships in disability related work … 16
6. WorldVision staff ’s capacities with regards to disability issues … 18
7. Recommendations from the respondents … 23
8. Reflection on the survey result … 26
Annex: Disability Mapping questionnaire … 28
List of acronyms
ADP Area Development Program
CBO Community Based Organization
CWD Child with Disabilities
CRPD Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
DPO Disabled People’s Organization
FY FiscalYear
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
PWD Person with Disabilities
WV WorldVision
WVF WorldVision Finland
WVJ WorldVision Japan
SAPO South-Asia and Pacific Regional Office
EASO East Asia Regional Office
EARO East Africa Regional Office
SARO South Africa Regional Office
LCRO Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office

Executive Summary
WorldVision's (WV) ministry goal is to seek the sustained well-being of children within their families
and communities, especially the most vulnerable. Often children with disabilities are amongst the
most vulnerable people in the communities where World Vision works. In 2004, World Vision’s
Triennial Council Resolution recognized disability as a cross-cutting issue and recommended that
WorldVision ‘integrates disability awareness into existing policies’.
World Vision Japan (WVJ) has taken up disability as one of strategic focus area for various
projects/programs. In order to identify gaps, strengths, and challenges of programs in terms of
disabilities related work, a Disability Mapping among WVJ supported Area Development Programs
(ADP) and projects were held. Based on “Disability Mapping among WV Finland Supported Programs
in Africa, Asia and Latin America 2011” prepared by Miikka Niskanen, WV Finland (WVF), WVJ
developed the questionnaire and disseminated to all ADPs supported byWVJ.WV Program staff was
requested to fill in a questionnaire regarding following contents:
- Prevalence and nature of disabilities in the program areas
- Program’s engagement in disability related work
- Involvement of people with disabilities inWorldVision program activities
- Partnerships in disability related work
- Staff ’s capacities with regards to disability issues
- Recommendations toWV Partnership includingWVJ
Out of 56 ADPs which were supported by WVJ in FY2015, 35 of them responded.
All programs identified Persons with Disabilities which includes children and adult in their target
area.The prevalence rate of PWDs of all ADPs was 1.46% .The prevalence rate varied among regions
from 0.58% (SAPO) to 2.84% (EARO). Regarding Registered Children (RC) with disabilities, the
prevalence rate among all children was 0.98%.
Staff from 85% of the programs stated that their programs are involved with disability related work
during FY15. There is no disability specific project implemented by the program but disability was
integrated into sector projects like health or education. The activities were not limited to service
provision but also participation in planning / monitoring,networking, awareness raising, and advocacy.
Majority of programs (24 ADPs; 72.7% of all responded) cooperate with partners (34
organizations/individuals) to implement programs for people with disabilities. Various partners such
as International NGO (lNGO), National NGO (working for disability), Government (Ministry, Dist.

Govt.,Hospitals,Rehab Centre,Schools …),Disabled Peoples’ Organization and Parents’ Association
of CWD.
The program staff’s level of knowledge and understanding on issues related to disabilities, capacity
for the planning and implementation of activities, and current capacity for disability related advocacy
was self-evaluated by the respondents and the result tend to be in “average”. However more than
half of the staff responded “No” or “Don’t know” when asked “If the program staff are trained or
will be trained on issues related to disabilities.”.
The respondents provided with their own recommendations to for their disability related work. In
order to develop program more effectively working for children and adult with disabilities, several
recommendation on DME,Activity and staff capacity were collected.
For the need in which WV Partnership or WV Japan can support to promote disability work in
programs, there were many ideas and suggestion in the form of technical, information and financial /
material.
In Reflection on the survey result, the surveyor pointed out the following as analysis based on the
result.
There is increase in disability related activity.
Inclusion of PWD in programing and CWD in sponsorship is also increasing but yet too low.
Program activity needs enhancement in participation in decision making (meaningful
participation) and advocacy rather than service provision.
Partnership with other organizations especially DPOs need further enhancement.
Objective measurement of staff capacity on disability is needed.
Staff training needs on disability is also needed.

Acknowledgement
My sincere thanks go to all our NO colleagues who contributed to this survey, especially disability
focal persons.
I would also like to acknowledge two persons. One is Miikka Niskanen, WV Finland (WVF) who
initiated the first Disability Mapping in 2011. That initiative was shared by Disability Community of
Practice (CoP) among WV Partnership which is headed by Hitomi Honda, Disability Advisor at WVI.
My special thanks go to both of them for without them the survey was never realized.
Last but not least I would like to thank Yuki Goto, WVJ intern in Q4 FY2015 for his contribution to
compiling / tabulating data and providing his insight.

1. Disability Mapping and disability in project/program
WVJ conducted a Disability Mapping exercise among 56 ADPs that were under the support of WVJ
in FY2014 by using Disability Work Mapping questionnaire (Annex). Out of 56 ADPs, 35 of them
responded as listed below.Their response included the following contents:
- Statistical data of disabilities in project/program area
- HowWV engages in disability related work
- Involvement of people with disability in the program
- WV’s partnership with organizations in disability related work
- Capability of our staff and effectiveness of our program in supporting people with disability
- Recommendations of the respondent’s WV to make their program more effective, including
further support from WVJ
Table 1 presents the Region, Country and name of Program (ADP) from which information for this
mapping was collected.
Table 1:ADPs which provided information
Region Country Program Region Country Program
SAPO Bangladesh Kalmakanda EASO Mongolia Hailaast
SAPO Bangladesh Fulbaria EASO Mongolia Bayan-Olgii
SAPO Bangladesh Biral EASO Myanmar Thabaung
SAPO Bangladesh Birganj EASO Thailand Tab Tao
SAPO Bangladesh Kaharole EASO Thailand Thungwa
SAPO India Saidapet EASO Thailand Tapraya
SAPO India Kilayur EASO Vietnam Van Yen
SAPO India Pudukottai EASO Vietnam Tran Yen
SAPO India Kandukur EASO Vietnam Tuan Giao
SAPO Indonesia Susukan EARO Ethiopia Dera
SAPO Indonesia Touna EARO Tanzania Gorowa
SAPO Sri Lanka Rideemaliyadda EARO Uganda Nalweyo-Kisiita
EASO Cambodia Ponhea Leu EARO Uganda Kiryanga
EASO Cambodia Thma Puok SARO Malawi Kalira
EASO Cambodia Bourei Cholsar SARO Swaziland Shewula
EASO Laos Phalansay LCRO El Salvador San Agustin
EASO Laos Thapangthong LCRO El Salvador Tierra Nueva
EASO Laos Paksan

2. Prevalence and nature of disabilities in the program areas
All programs identified Persons with Disabilities which includes children and adult in their target
area. The prevalence rate of PWDs of all ADPs was 1.46% (Table 2) . The prevalence rate varied
among regions from 0.58% (SAPO) to 2.84% (EARO) as well.The detail % by the region can be seen
in Figure 1.
Table 2: Number of adult and child with and without disabilities against total population
Regarding Registered Children (RC) with disabilities, the prevalence or inclusion rate among all
children was 0.98% which is lower than of those PWDs in general (Table 3).The prevalence rate also
varied from region to region. The lowest was 0.54% (SAPO) and highest 2.06% (EARO). Figure 2
shows region-wise % of RC with and without disabilities.
Table 3: Number of registered child with and without disability in ADP
Total
population in
the ADP
target area
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others
% of PWDs
against total
Pop.
Total 1,647,375 13,974 10,061 1,623,340 1.46%
SAPO 948,318 3,236 2,298 942,784 0.58%
EASO 393,359 6,507 3,422 383,430 2.52%
EARO 285,733 3,921 4,182 277,630 2.84%
SARO N/A 73 67 N/A N/A
LCRO 12,405 237 92 12,076 2.65%
Total
registered
child
Registered
child w/
disabilities
Registered
child w/o
disabilities
% of CWD
among RC
Total 64,039 625 63414 0.98%
SAPO 21,647 116 21531 0.54%
EASO 23,837 258 23579 1.08%
EARO 9,042 186 8856 2.06%
SARO 6,013 12 6001 0.20%
LCRO 3,500 53 3447 1.51%

However if comparing with WHO’s estimation that about 15 per cent of the world’s population is
living with some form of impairment1
or The World Bank estimates that 20 per cent of the world's
poorest people have some kind of disability.2
Although WHO has set ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) as
definition / standard of disability, respective government ministry sets different standard taking the
country’s specific context or needs into consideration.
Whether or not government issues certificate to persons with disabilities (PWDs), the prevalence
rate is usually lower than the above WHO or The World Bank estimate. For example, Japanese
government White Paper on Disability 2013 shows approximately 6% of the population have some
kind of disability. Thailand census by NSO in 2007 estimated 2.85% of population are PWDs. Yet
PWD in target population and CWD among RC in Thailand ADPs are also lower than the national
government estimated %.(Table 4 & 5)
All ADPs’ prevalence rate of PWDs and CWD among RC is lower than of those National
Government figures is seen challenging.
Table 4: Number of PWDs against total population inThailand 3 ADPs
Table 5: Number of registered child with and without disability inThailand 3 ADPs
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1 World Health Organization (2011), World Report on Disability, p. 29.
2 UN Enable, ‘Fact sheet on Persons with Disabilities’. <http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=18> [Date cited:
December 2013]
Total
population in
the ADP target
area
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others (without
disabilities)
% of PWDs
against total
Pop.
Thailand 3
ADPs Total
69,062 886 128 68,048 1.47%
Total
registered
child
Registered
child w/
disabilities
Registered
child w/o
disabilities
% of CWD
among RC
Thailand 3
ADPs Total
3,375 25 63414
0.74%

Regarding the types of disabilities commonly prevailed is categorized by the program staff scaling
from 0 (None), 1 (Least) to 5 (Most)). The result showed as Figure 3, Physical disability / impairment
is the highest. Physical disability / impairment is usually visible and more identifiable without deep
knowledge and understanding or stigma that family tend to hide PWDs from community scene.
Contrary to that mental and communication disability / impairment remained low.
Figure 3: Types of disability identified in the program area
As described in Figure 3, different kind of disabilities are identified / recognized in the program.
Government program to provide disability certificate along with benefit accelerates medical
examination and diagnosis of those disability. However lack of knowledge, information, quality of
medical service is still common in most of communities that ADP targets. With this limited
circumstances program staff’s analysis / perception of major reason / cause of disabilities are as
follows;
lack of prenatal and postnatal care
lack of proper medical care services
pregnant women and infants have high risk of infectious diseases and malnutrition
close relative marriage
drug consumption
lack of care for a fetus and postnatal child
3.3
1.7
1.9 1.8
1.4
1.1
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
Types of disabilities idtentified in the program area

Figure 1: Percentage of adult and child with and without disabilities
(Lack of information to graph SARO)
0.85%
0.61%
98.54%
Percentage of people with & without
disabilities in ADP compare to total
population (Total)
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others
0.34% 0.24%
99.42%
population (SAPO)
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others
1.65% 0.87%
97.48%
disabilities in ADP compare to total population
(EASO)
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others
1.37%
1.46%
97.16%
population (EARO)
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others
1.91% 0.74%
97.35%
population (LCRO)
Adult w/
disabilities
Child w/
disabilities
Others

Figure 2: Percentage of registered child with and without disability in ADP
0.98%
99.02%
Percentage of registered child with &
without disability in ADP (Total)
Registered child
w/ disability
Registered child
w/o disability
0.54%
99.46%
without disability in ADP (SAPO)
Registered child
w/ disability
Registered child
w/o disability
1.08%
98.92%
without disability in ADP (EASO)
Registered child
w/ disability
Registered child
w/o disability
2.06%
97.94%
without disability in ADP (EARO)
Registered child
w/ disability
Registered child
w/o disability
0.20%
99.80%
without disability in ADP (SARO)
Registered child
w/ disability
Registered child
w/o disability
1.51%
98.49%
without disability in ADP (LCRO)
Registered child
w/ disability
Registered child
w/o disability

3.WorldVision’s engagement in disability related work
3.1 Disability related activities
Staff from 85% of the programs that responded to the survey stated that their programs are involved
with disability related work during FY15. There is no disability specific project implemented by the
program but disability was integrated into sector projects like health or education.
The examples of activities are ;
Provision of proper nutrition to children with malnutrition
Raising disability awareness among caregivers as well as non-disabled population to increase
social integration
Training for parents/caregivers on children with disabilities.
Support for Educational institutions and provision of academic equipment for the enrollment
and special care of CWDs
Staff for mental and psychological care for people with psychiatric and learning disabilities.
Rehabilitation treatment for PWDs
Networking with social welfare agencies for provision of treatment / training for CWDs to
develop their capabilities ex) vocational training.
Provision of ECCD program
ADP has planned to do Citizen Voice of Action: Workshop with stakeholders (Fulbaria ADP,
Bangladesh)
Encouragement of PWDs to participate and speak up in the decision making process (Thma
Puok ADP in Cambodia)
Linking disabled rehab. center to advocate to state to set up budget for provincial welfare
manual. (Bayan-Olgii ADP, Mongolia)
ADP facilitated a forum for the awareness of “PWDs’ right to equitable education” and provide
opportunity to CWDs to directly dialogue with the leaders (Kiryanga ADP, Uganda)
Those who responded that disability is not involved or not focused in the Program activity gave the
following reasons:
State in the executive summary that there is still lack of understanding about inclusive programming
orWV’s programme’s “For all” approach.
less priority for activities on disabilities
lack of staff’s capacity and motivation

lack of resources
lack of available or accessible supportive institutions
lack of existence of governmental support for healthcare for PWDs
3.2 Disability advocacy
All the programs except Bangladesh and Cambodia have organized disability related advocacy work
in 2014. In Bangladesh and Cambodia, there are plans to work on it in the field of Community Clinic
and School Management Committee. However, the extent of advocacy is still very limited. The
following is some of the activities given as examples.
SAPO
- The ADP has planned to ensure support and services for people with disabilities through Citizen
Voice of Action: Workshop with government, stakeholders, community influential groups,
community based organizations, development groups, local level policy makers, teachers, school
managing committee members, child health forum, education and economic development.
(Fulbaria ADP, Bangladesh)
- Observance of international disability day Dec 3rd.
(Saidapet ADP, India)
- Awareness program for the causes of disabilities. (Pudukottai ADP, India)
EASO
- Encouragement of people with disabilities to participate and speak up in the decision making
process to increase the understanding and respect for people with disabilities in the community.
(Thma Puok ADP in Cambodia)
- The ADP is working with the government and community to establish Child Participation
Development Project, Child Sponsorship Management Project, and Health Project which include
workshop for parents as well. (TabTao ADP,Thailand)
- Linking disabled center with community and government to set up budget from state to
establish the provincial welfare manual. (Bayan-Olgii ADP, Mongolia)
- Provide knowledge of rights, ethics and access to the government services to the people with
disabilities which strengthen activity for the volunteers to provide care and the disabled people
themselves become the volunteers for the peer group. (Tapraya ADP,Thailand)
EARO
- The ADP facilitated a forum for the awareness of “People with disabilities’ right to equitable
education” to strengthen activities for more care, provide an opportunity for children with
disabilities to directly dialogue with the leaders to share their challenges and need of support.
- Work with Advocacy groups to identify the major disabilities in the communities to build

support systems to protect child rights and cope with the main reasons causing disabilities such
as early marriage/pregnancy. (Kiryanga ADP, Uganda)
SARO
- Identify major disabilities in the communities to build support system and work on prevention.
- Support children with disabilities in schools. (Shewula ADP, Swaziland)
LCRO
- Access project has as main objective to promote the strengthening of wheelchair sector to
make sure that people with physical disabilities have access to appropriate technology such as
wheelchair through qualified service providers and have fullness participation in their
communities. It is executed with financial support from USAID, and technical partnership from
United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), Teleton Foundation for Rehabilitation (FUNTER) and Salvadorian
Institute for Integral Rehabilitation (ISRI). (Tierra Nueva ADP, El Salvador)
- The ADP will be involved in learning and training communities to create awareness on people
with disabilities rights. (San Agustín ADP, El Salvador)

4. Involvement of people with disabilities inWorldVision program
activities
There are children (under 18 years old) and adults with disabilities involved in program activities
such as assessment and design, implementation, and monitoring of the programs according to the
surveys result.
In average, more than half of the program responded to the survey involves children and adult with
disabilities in program activities. However the difference was seen among regions that SAPO as
lowest (average 41.6%) and EASO as highest (average 80% ) “Yes”. (Table 6, 7 & 8)
Table 6: Children (under 18 y/o) and adult with disabilities' involvement in program activities
Table 7: Children (under 18 y/o) and adult with disabilities' involvement in EASO's program activities
Program Activity
Children w/ disabilities in the
assessment & planning
20 57.1% 11 31.4% 2 5.7%
Adults w/ disabilities in the
20 57.1% 10 28.6% 1 2.9%
implementation
25 71.4% 10 28.6% 0 0.0%
implementation
25 71.4% 9 25.7% 1 2.9%
monitoring
19 54.3% 15 42.9% 0 0.0%
monitoring
18 51.4% 17 48.6% 0 0.0%
Yes No Don't know
Program Activity
12 80.0% 2 13.3% 0 13.3%
10 66.7% 2 13.3% 0 0.0%
implementation
13 86.7% 2 13.3% 0 0.0%
implementation
14 93.3% 1 6.7% 0 0.0%
monitoring
12 80.0% 3 20.0% 0 0.0%
monitoring
11 73.3% 4 26.7% 0 0.0%
Yes No Don't know

Table 8: Children (under 18 y/o) and adult with disabilities' involvement in SAPO's program activities
Most of the programs addressed disability related issues during the assessment and design phase of
their program. According to ADPs in Bangladesh, different types of interventions among targeted
families and communities said that identifying people with disabilities is valuable and including them in
the program is necessary. The interventions are 1. Spreading of awareness workshop 2. Distribution
of Effective Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials 3. Hosting sessions with
parents, caregiver, and community leaders on disability, human rights, and care for children with
disabilities 4. Building capacity of staff, volunteers, and people in the community on programming and
managing system to support people with disabilities. 5. Ensuring means of livelihood for people with
disabilities which includes education and working opportunities.
Program Activity
4 33.3% 5 41.7% 2 16.7%
6 50.0% 4 33.3% 1 8.3%
implementation
6 50.0% 6 50.0% 0 0.0%
implementation
6 50.0% 5 41.7% 1 8.3%
monitoring
4 33.3% 8 66.7% 0 0.0%
monitoring
4 33.3% 8 66.7% 0 0.0%
Yes No Don't know

5. Partnerships in disability related work
The responses show that majority of programs (24 ADPs; 72.7% of all responded) cooperate with
partners (34 organizations/individuals) to implement programs for people with disabilities. It shows
that WV staff realize the importance of partnering with other organizations / individual as WV lacks
disability specific resources and information. This partnering is also aligned with WV’s Development
Program Approach (DPA).The following are the kinds of partners mentioned by the respondents.
International NGO (lNGO)
National NGO (working for disability)
Government (Ministry, Dist. Govt., Hospitals, Rehab Centre, Schools …)
Disabled Peoples’ Organization
Parents’ Association
In SAPO, the responses show that these WVs cooperate with international and national NGOs and
regional and national government. In Bangladesh, international NGO provides technical support such
as assistive devices for people with disabilities. In India, national NGOs work together to provide
medical screening, counseling, and addressing to protect the rights of people with disabilities. In India
and Indonesia, ADPs cooperate with government’s implementation of public works such as
rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
In EASO, WVs mainly work with the government agencies to establish the cooperation between
NGOs and communities by educating people about disability and raising awareness about people
with disabilities. NGOs directly work with people with disabilities, their parents, and their
communities. They provide consultation for parents about disability and mentor how to support
their children, involve children in activities, mentor children, support living allowance and medical
treatment, and provide assistance to access governmental services. They expand the understanding
of the rights and available access to the government services for people with disabilities.
In EARO, WVs take the role of establishing successful collaboration with other organizations. In
Ethiopia, education offices and schools promote better understanding of disabilities and provide
support to enable children to attend their schools. The local governments in Uganda formulate their
policy to address issues related to equality.
In SARO, ministry of education of Malawi works to improve identification of disabilities and support.
International NGO in Swaziland provides training and support to develop knowledge, support and
collaboration.
In LCRO, the programs in El Salvador do not have any formal partnerships but there is local
coordination with an association to create awareness on disabilities through providing reading

materials. They also support children with disabilities to participate in activities such as celebration
marches.

6.WorldVision staff ’s capacities with regards to disability issues
The program staff’s level of knowledge and understanding on issues related to disabilities, capacity
for the planning and implementation of activities, and current capacity for disability related advocacy
tend to be in “average” meaning neither “very strong” nor “very weak” level according to the
respondents of self-evaluation.The data shows that majority of them have basic knowledge, however
almost none of them are specializing in the care for people with disabilities.
The percentage of program staff that has been trained or will be trained during FY15 on issues
related to disabilities show that majority of the staff would not be trained in 2015. Majority of the
training offered are provision of the basic knowledge about the rights of people with disabilities and
encouraging them to notice and handle issues related to disabilities.
There were not many differences among the data from SAPO, EASO, EARO, SARO, and LCRO.
Increase of awareness and basic knowledge on disability was realized by most of program staff to
work with PWDs and to provide necessary support.
Figure 4: Staff’s knowledge and understanding on issues related to disability

Figure 5: Staff’s capacity for the planning and implementation of activities
Figure 6: Staff’s current capacity for disability related advocacy

Figure 7: If the program staff has been trained on issues related to disabilities or will be trained
during FY15
Difference between SAPO, EASO, EARO, SARO, and LCRO was seen only from the data of how easy
or difficult it is for staff with disabilities to work for the program team. Majority of EASO and SARO
answered that the difficulty level is“Average” and“Rather Easy” in EARO.On the other hand,large
number of SAPO program staff answered “Very Easy” (33.3%) and “Rather Easy” (33.3%),meaning
66.6% consider it “Easy”. It can be seen in LCRO where 100% of them consider it “Rather Easy”.
The comments describe the circumstances in SAPO as “Staff have very positive attitude and passion
for the disabled people and there are trained and experienced volunteers”, “We provide an
opportunity for them to be a staff if they meet the requirements of the job characteristics”.However,
it stated that people are still not accustomed to accept people with disabilities which sometimes
creates an uncomfortable work environment. Additionally, the roads, office, equipment, and other
infrastructures are not disability-friendly and are creating difficulty for them to commute. However,
the administrative work would be more or less easy,but the field work would not be as easy because
of the mobility needs to reach some communities as LCRO stated.
Regarding the question whether it would be easy or difficult for disabled World Vision staff to work
as a part of the program team, it was found out actually there were programs hiring staff with
disability. A few of the programs also responded positively showing their willingness. However those
responded positively also gave condition that "if they have skill to meet requirement" or "if types of
disability is not obstacle to job description". And many of them claimed there is barriers to prevent
PWDs to work asWV program staff such as "inaccessible road to commute or office infrastructure"
40%
48.6%
8.6%
If the program staff are trained or will be
trained on issues related to disabilities
Yes
No
Don't know

or "Non-disabled staff skill to communicate (such as sign language). UN CRPD promotes the
realization of the right to work for PWDs in society ensuring reasonable accommodation to be
provided in the workplace. It is realized that the challenge is not only in program target area but also
within the organization itself.
Figure 8: Difficulty level for staff with disabilities to work for the program team (SAPO)
Figure 9: Difficulty level for staff with disabilities to work for the program team (LCRO)
Following comments show how responders see resources and capacity of their Zonal/Provincial

office and National office to support ADPs in their disability work.
SAPO: The Zonal/Provincial offices encourage every field staff to recruit specialists to create special
project or events for people with disabilities to operate effectively. Realization of the projects for
people with disabilities’ care depends on National Offices’ strategic priority and decision.
LCRO: Even though there is awareness on the need to address this topic and there have been some
basic training and activities, it is necessary to strengthen capacity and resources to train staff in this
area that can guide the work and to obtain funding through non-sponsorship projects to have budget
for intentional work on disabilities and there is a lack of trained staff due to currently disabilities is
not a topic worked intentionally in projects because the capacity is limited.
EASO,EARO,SARO:Majority of RO have the willingness to support people with disabilities,however
lack of training/capacity building of ADP staff related to disabilities caused by their limited financial
and physical resources and lack of past experiences is slowing the programs from expanding. It is
necessary for National Offices to promote knowledge and understanding on disability and advocacy
to local program staffs. Establishment of disability independent projects for disabilities is also
essential.

7. Recommendations from the respondents
The respondents were asked to provide with their own recommendations for disability work, based
on their answers to the mapping questionnaire.All recommendations are listed below with the most
illustrative examples of the answers.
Regarding the question “What is needed to develop a program more effectively working for children
and adult with disabilities?” the following was the answers provided by the respondents;
DME:
- Conducting assessment and baseline survey disaggregating data on disability
- Planning with PWDs to hear the needs and to have recommendation on solution
- Planning with specialist on disability issue
- Supporting health and education of CWD to lead to job opportunities
- Supporting capacity building of AWD
- Ensuring resources for PWD
- Developing strong partners both with Government and NGOs on disability issue
- Developing special project for PWD to improve their lives
- Setting up disabilities related Indicators in program logframe to make sure disabilities are equally
benefited
- Monitoring tools for disability related activity.
Activity:
- Developing special module for Life Skill Education for Children & Adult for better Participation
in Program
- Establishing friendly learning environment for CWD
- More awareness to the Children & community to bring the marginalized children into the
society
- Strengthening DPO to enable them speak about themselves in public and government forum
- GIK support such as hearing aid
- Local advocacy works to give economic opportunity to PWD equally with others
- Continue creating disability friendly school environments
- Program staff should form PWDs as group and let them apply micro-project to gain benefit as
well as build capacity.
- Program to provide special attention to support and enhance their specific needs of PWD
- Disable persons should be part of advocacy
- Partnership agreement between the disabled, partners, program staff and sponsors

- Establish friendly learning environment for children with disabilities
Staff capacity:
- Awareness raising of staff on disability issue
- Staff training on various government policies, schemes on disability
- Exposure visit to other partners exclusively working for disabled children
- Assigning disability expert to respond the needs of PWD
- Budgeting human resource need for working effectively on disability issue.
- Capacity building to staff on disability and development work.
Regarding the question “Based on your experience in disability work, is there any area that you think
WV Partnership including WV Japan can support?” the following was the answers provided by the
respondents;
Technical support for:
- Inclusive education for CWDs and creation of friendly learning environment in schools for
CWD
- Vocational Skills Development for Children/Youth with Disability and family with PWD
- Referral Mechanism for the Physically and Mentally impaired Children
- Setting up standard indicators in program logframe (for PWD inclusion)
- Designing special project to improve the lives of the PWD, especially for the children
- Sensitizing and Strengthening Systems and Structures of Government in disability issue
(Advocacy)
- Expanding awareness program on rights of PWD and their needs to communities members and
general public
- Sensitizing CWD,AWD and their families about their rights and build confidence to be as equal
member of community and society
- Facilitating families of disabled children and youths to involve with development groups as well
as disabled people’s organization
- Assisting physical treatment/ physiotherapy for disabled children & adult
- Involving PWD with activities monitoring & supervision
- Staff capacity building on disability and how mainstream disability in already existing project or
developing a separate project altogether

Information for:
- Creating linkages amongWV NO,ADPs and organizations working for PWDs
- Sharing the needs and situation of CWD and AWD to sponsors / donors to enable the team to
give more focus on the issues/areas
- Sharing lessons-learned about disability-related interventions among NOs / ADPs
- Materials on disability for NO / ADP staff
- Establishing linkage with institution / organization working with disability to be consultant for
ADP
Financial / Material Support for :
- Specifically to address needs of PWDs effectively with specific indicators and targets
- Training of community leadership (CBOs, FBOs) to care for the disabled
- ADPs in order to respond to the needs of CWD and AWD in short term and long terms
response
- Medical treatment and educational intervention
- Water and sanitation (to create toilet water filters and water tank more suitable and accessible
for PWDs)
- Provision of shelter to PWDs
- Family with PWD to engage in income generation activities
- Distributing assistive devices for CWD and AWDs
- Education such as scholarship for disabled children
- Organizing sensitization campaign in community and referrals for medical treatment /
rehabilitation.
- GIK for assistive devices such as wheelchair, ramps, hearing-aid, etc.

8. Reflection on the survey result
Prevalence and nature of disabilities in the program areas
Despite over growing concern / interest on disability issue among WV partnership, 1.46% of
prevalence rate of PWDs of all ADPs and even lower prevalence rate of Registered Children (RC)
with disabilities among RCs in general that was 0.98%. Inclusion of PWD in programing and CWD in
sponsorship should be considered still too low as most of the rate were even below national level
prevalence rate.
"Strategic Guidance for Disability Inclusion" by World Vision International, Disability Community of
Practice in January 2014 suggests that "Proportion of children with disabilities in sponsorship
programs reflects at least their proportion amongst children in the community. Where the data is
not available in the community, use national data.".
The reason for low prevalence rate of PWDs in the programs may be varied programs to program
such as unreliable statistics / demography, stigma among PWDs and their families, invisible disability
and lack of knowledge on disability among community people or WV staff, various barriers that
prevent PWDs to accessWV program activities.
Thus the effort for improvement should not be limited to data collection or RC recruitment process
but also awareness raising among community people, staff capacity building, removing barriers inWV
program venues, activities or information communication method.
WorldVision’s engagement in disability related work
Physical disability is often visible and the needs are realized by family, community and WV staff more
often than other types of disabilities that are not so visible such as mental, intellectual or
communication. Program needs to respond to those needs of invisible disability as well.
WV staff in programs are not always medically trained therefore identification and diagnosis are
relied upon external organizations such as government health institutions or disability specialized
NGOs.DPOs or Self Help Groups of PWDs including parents can be driving force to highlight issues
in the communities and bring PWDs into the focus of community attention.
Involvement of people with disabilities inWorldVision program activities
Although it was found out that in average, more than half of the programs responded involve
children and adult with disabilities in program activities, the mapping could not further capture how
many and how different kind of disabilities were reasonably accommodated by the programs. Project
related documents which SO receives are not always describing those efforts and outcomes. The

survey result also shows program activity needs further enhancement in participation in decision
making (meaningful participation) and advocacy rather than service provision. Partnership with
organizations especially DPOs is recommended.
The proportion of PWD among WV program staff was not measured this time,it was suspected that
to be very low figure, though exist. Just like gender and other minority issue, having staff with
disability also helps to identify needs, partnering with DPOs or Self Help Groups of PWDs and
providing role model to PWD especially CWD. In order to accommodate / recruit staff with
disability in WV working places, reasonable accommodation that UN CRPD stipulates needs to be
well taken into consideration.
Partnerships in disability related work
For WV which is not disability specialized organization, partnering with other organization especially
of those working for PWD and DPOs is vital.Majority ofWV ADPs (72.7%) cooperate with partners
and it needs further enhancement in all programs.
WorldVision staff ’s capacities with regards to disability issues
Although the result shows that the program staff evaluate themselves that they have “average” level
of knowledge and understanding of disability related issue, it is not measured objectively and can be
different from program to program. There is a need for objective measurement of staff competency
on disability as well as standardized training course or manual for program staff engagement with
disability related activity.
Recommendations from the respondents
There are various needs for support to programs including technical, information and financial. In
order to further promote / improve disability inclusion in our work, it is essential that SOs also
realize those emerging need on disability that programs face.
Disability CoP recommends to appoint disability advisor or disability focal person in every NO to
oversee the issue and coordinate program, projects on disability so that needs and gap can be better
responded utilizing resources.

Annex: Disability Mapping questionnaire
World Vision Japan
Disability Work Mapping3
1. Background information
Number Question and answer column Remarks
1.1 Name of project /programme:
1.2 Date of answering:
1.3 Name and title of staff participating in filling in this
questionnaire (one or more):
Participant 1:
Participant 2:
Participant 3:
Participant 4:
1.4 Name and title of Interviewer, if applicable:
___________________
3
Originally developed by World Vision Finland and modified by World Vision Japan in October
2012
Dear Colleagues,
Disability is a cross-cutting theme in World Vision’s work. This means that issues related to disabilities
should be addressed in World Vision’s Area Development Programmes and sectoral projects.
In line with this, World Vision Japan is belatedly working on project/program impact on disability more
seriously. To begin with, we are gathering information on the status of disability work within the
ADPs and projects that Japan funds. While participating in this mapping, you can help World Vision
Japan to get an overall view on disability related work in Japan funded programmes and on the
potential gaps that could be addressed together in the future.
Thank you for your cooperation and looking forwards to your response.

2. Disabilities in project/programme area
2.1 What is known about the (actual or estimated)
number of children and adults with disabilities in
your programme area?
‘Disabilities’ can include
- Physical disabilities
- Mental disabilities
- Intellectual disabilities
- Sensory (vision, audition…) disabilities
- Communication disabilities
- Others
_____________ children under 18 y/o
_____________ adults
I don’t know
Comments:
If ‘No’ or ‘I don’t
know, go to
question 3.1
2.2 What kind of disabilities are the most prevalent in
your programme area?
[List below]
•
•
•
Why?

3. World Vision’s engagement in disability related work
3.1 Will your programme be involved with disability
related work during this Fiscal Year?
Yes
I don’ know
No
If ‘no’, why not? Are there some barriers that
prevent from working with disabilities or to
include disabled person in programme activities?
If ‘I don’t know
or ‘No’, go to
question 3.6
3.2 Is your work with disabilities a part of the
programme/project or a separate disability
project?
Part of project/programme
Separate disability project
Both
Clarifications:
3.3 Please, list and describe your programme’s main
disability related activities during this Fiscal Year.
If ‘I don’t
know’, go to

Indicate also how many persons are expected to
benefit from each activity.
•
•
•
•
•
I don’t know
Comments:
question 3.6
3.4 Is your programme involved with disability related
advocacy work during this Fiscal Year (influencing
communities, partners, decision makers etc.)?
Yes
I don’ know
No
If ‘no’, why not?
If ‘No’ or ‘I don’t
know’ go to
question 3.6
3.5 Please, describe briefly your programme’s
disability advocacy activities, approaches and
target audiences during this Fiscal Year.
[Write answer here]
3.6 Have disabled children (under 18 y/o) been
involved in the assessment and planning of your
programme?
Yes

I don’ know
No
3.7 Have disabled adults been involved in the
assessment and planning of your programme?
Yes
I don’ know
No
3.8 Describe how disabled children and adults were
involved in the assessment and planning of your
programme, if applicable.
3.9 Are disabled children (under 18 y/o) involved in
the implementation of your programme?
Yes
I don’ know
No

3.10 Are disabled adults involved in the implementation
of your programme?
Yes
I don’ know
No
3.11 Describe how disabled children and adults are
involved in the implementation of your
programme, if applicable.
3.12 Are disabled children (under 18 y/o) involved in
the monitoring of your programme?
Yes
I don’ know
No
3.13 Are disabled adults involved in the monitoring of
your programme?
Yes
I don’ know
No

3.14 Describe how disabled children and adults are
involved in the monitoring of your programme, if
applicable.
3.15 Were disability related issues addressed during the
assessment and design phase of your programme?
Yes
I don’ know
No
If yes, clarify
4. Partnerships in disability related work
4.1 If your programme is doing disability related work
in partnership with others, who are the key
partners and their roles in the collaboration?
• World Vision. Role in collaboration:
• Partner 1. Name and role in collaboration:

• Partner 2. Name and role in collaboration
• Partner 3. Name and role in collaboration
The programme has no partnerships for
disability related work at the moment
Comments:
5. World Vision programme staff and disabilities
5.1 How would you evaluate your programme staff’s
current knowledge and understanding on issues
related to disabilities?
Very strong
Rather strong
Average
Rather Weak
Very weak
Comments:
current capacity for the planning and
implementation of activities with and for persons
with disabilities?
Very strong

Rather strong
Average
Rather Weak
Very weak
Comments:
current capacity for disability related advocacy?
Very strong
Rather strong
Average
Rather Weak
Very weak
Comments:
5.4 Has your programme staff been trained on issues
related to disabilities or will they be trained during
the year to come?
Yes
I don’ know
If ‘I don’t know’
or ‘No’, go to
question 5.6

No
5.5 Please, describe briefly when and what kind of
disability related training your programme staff
has received or will receive.
[Write your answer here]
5.6 Would it be easy or difficult for disabled World
Vision staff to work as a part of your programme
team?
Very easy
Rather easy
Average
Rather difficult
Very difficult
Comments:
5.7 How do you see World Vision National Office’s
resources and capacity to support ADPs in their
disability work?
[Write answer here]

5.8 How do you see World Vision Zonal/Provincial
office’s resources and capacity to support ADPs in
their disability work?
[Write answer here]
6. Recommendations
6.1 Based on this questionnaire and answers, what is
recommended?
[Preferably planned and agreed upon together
with the programme staff and the Interviewer]
• Recommendation 1:
Comments:
6.2 Based on your experience in disability work, is
there any area that you think WV Japan can
support?
If yes, please describe in detail.
Very many thanks!!

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