The document discusses developing leadership and project management capabilities for persons with disabilities. It notes that persons with disabilities often lack opportunities to lead or engage in project management due to limited capabilities, and no institution currently provides training in these areas for persons with disabilities. The proposed project would measure the unmet need for formal instruction in leadership and project management among persons with disabilities, determine contributing factors, and develop a training module to build these capacities. The project would utilize surveys, interviews, focus groups and consultations, with the goal of institutionalizing the training at AVRC II.

1. Building Leadership and
Project Management
Capabilities for Persons
with Disabilities

2. 1
What is the motivation
of the concept?
• AVRC II Vision statement of empowering persons
with disabilities
• Many persons with disabilities are not provided with
opportunities to lead or engage in project
management due to limited capabilities
• No institution is providing inputs on
leadership and project management
for persons with disabilities
• Leadership and project management are
required skills for improved productivity

3. 2
What studies have
found out?
The recent report of Beyond Education (2021) that there are
already significant progress and efforts made for persons with
disabilities but there remains many barriers to ensure that they
are visible, accepted and value in an inclusive society.
One of these barriers that is also felt and expressed in the region,
in the national level and even internationally is the area of
leadership capacity building among persons with disabilities
(DSWD Field Office VII CY 2022 Narrative Plan of Action for
Persons with Disabilities; Beyond Education, 2021; Heidrick and
Struggles International, Inc, 2018; Prize, 2018).

4. 3
What are contextual factors
leading to this concept?
• DSWD already started social mobilization projects for persons with
disabilities and for older persons in CY 2005 (DSWD AO 21 s. 2005)
and one of the objectives of this project is to resolve the non-
involvement of persons with disabilities and their organizations in
policy planning in areas which directly concerns them and their
families and also the lack of confidence and skills in leadership
among persons with disabilities.
• In 2008, the DSWD formulated the guidelines (Administrative Order
13 s. 2008) regarding the organization of persons with disabilities
into self-help groups and develop their skills, positive attitude and
confidence as well as maximizing their residual capacities to become
self-reliant, productive and contributing members of society.

5. 4
What are contextual factors
leading to this concept?
Problem:
There were no rigorous evaluations made
on these projects to determine its impact
and these efforts were not sustained

6. 5
What is the central thesis to
this concept?
The central thesis of this research study is
that building the leadership capacities and
providing rigorous instruction for leadership
development and practicing these instruction
is found to be more strategic in improving
the welfare of the persons with disabilities
and in effectively advocating for disability-
inclusion development.

7. 6
Processes
Concept Development
Immersion in Previous Studies and Literature
Initial Consultation with Sector Members
Data Gathering Tool Development
Data Gathering Tool Orientation
Data Gathering
Data Analyses
Consultation for Report Finalization
Module Development
Pilot Testing and Evaluation
CSC Approval as
Leadership
Course

8. 7
Lead Institution and
Program

9. 8
What are the objectives?
The BLS project is sought to determine the extent or
degree of the need for leadership and project
management formal instruction among persons with
disabilities and its contributing factors in the various
critical areas thrive across their life cycles, namely,
social and public services, education, health, work
and employment, and civic participation and
governance. Understanding this unmet need will be
necessary to determine the scope of the leadership
instruction and capacity building that will be
proposed.

10. 9
What are the objectives?
Specifically, the BLS project aims to:
1.measure the unmet need for formal instruction
on leadership and project management for and
of persons with disabilities;
2.determine the factors contributing to this need;
3.propose a leadership and project management
capacity package for persons with disabilities.

11. 10
Methods
This study will be utilizing mixed-methods
1.Survey – to gather perceptions about the unmet
need of leadership for and of persons with
disabilities
2.Key Informant Interview – know the lived
experiences of the current persons with
disabilities leaders and know their successes
and challenges, determine the leadership
characteristics and learn how this can be
developed into a capacity building package

12. 11
Methods
3. Focus Group Discussion – know qualitatively the
experiences and meaning for the unmet need of
leadership for and of persons with disabilities, its
impact towards promoting disability rights and
privileges and in advancing disability-inclusion
4. Consultation Dialogues – discuss the development
of leadership package for persons with disabilities
5. Process Evaluation – evaluation at every process
of the pilot implementation of the module

13. 12
Timeline
Initial Consultation – March 2022
Data Gathering Tool Development – March-April 2022
Orientation on Data Gathering Tool – May 2022
Data Collection – June-July 2022
Consultation Workshop – August 2022
Module Development – August-November 2022
Report Finalization – November 2022
Pilot Implementation of Module – February 2023
Evaluation Study – July-September 2023
Institutionalization at AVRC II – October 2023

14. 13
Prospective Clients
With the promulgation of EO 138 (Full
Devolution of Programs for Persons with
Disabilities), the prospective clients are:
1.LGUs – Province, City, Municipality,
Barangay
2.Self-help Groups
3.Disability People Organizations
4.Expand to organizations of other vulnerable
groups

15. 14
Data Gathering Tool
Please get a copy of the tool from the AVRC II staff

16. 15
Data Gathering Tool
1. Personal Information
2. Affiliation in Organizations or Groups
3. Knowledge on Laws for Persons with Disabilities
- Level of knowledge
- Sources of knowledge
4. Services for Persons with Disabilities
- Importance of Service
- Access to Service
- Satisfaction on the Availment of Service
5. Attitudes or Views of Persons with Disabilities
6. Beliefs of Leadership
7. Project Management