1. FORUM ON MAINSTREAMING WOMEN
AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN
GAD PROGRAMS AT THE LGU LEVEL

2. 650 million- or 10% of the world
population- live with disabilities and
frequently encounter a myriad of
physical and social obstacles;
-lack opportunities of mainstream
population;

3. Women face barriers to full equality
and advancement because of such
factors as race, age, language,
ethnicity, culture, religion or
disability.1 Persistence of certain
cultural, legal and institutional barriers
makes women and girls with disabilities
the victims of two-fold discrimination:
as women and as persons with
disabilities.2

4. Girls and women of all ages with any
form of disability are among the more
vulnerable and marginalized of society.
- Face difficulty in attaining access to
adequate housing, health, education,
vocational training and employment,
and are more likely to be
institutionalized ;

5. - experience inequality in hiring,
promotion rates and pay for equal
work, access to training
and retraining, credit and other
productive resources, and rarely
participate in economic decision
making ;

6. invisible both among those
promoting the rights of persons
with disabilities, and those
promoting gender equality and
the advancement of women.

7. Gender perspectives on
disability and the disability
perspective on the situation of
women and girls with
disabilities

8. Promoting gender equality and
empowerment of women is
essential to the achievement of
the internationally agreed
development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals

9. Women and girls with disabilities
experience double discrimination,
which places them at higher risk of
gender-based violence, sexual abuse,
neglect, maltreatment and
exploitation.
The global literacy rate is as low as
one per cent for women with
disabilities
- UNDP Study

10. The World Bank reports that every
minute more than 30 women are
seriously injured or disabled during
labour and that those 15-50 million
women generally go unnoticed

11. International normative
framework on women and
girls with disabilities
the international community recognizes
the need for the gender perspective and
the empowerment women with disabilities
to achieve the equal enjoyment of all
human rights and development for all,
including persons with disabilities.

12. The World Program of Action
Concerning Disabled Persons
states that the consequences of
deficiencies and disablement are
particularly serious for women. Generally
women are subjected to social, cultural
and economic disadvantages, making it
more difficult for them to take part in
community life

13. The Standard Rules on the Equalization of
Opportunities for Persons With Disabilities,
recall the provisions in the CEDAW
to ensure the rights of girls and women with
disabilities, and includes references to
women and girls with disabilities under
several Rules, such as Rule 4 on Support
services, Rule 6 on Education, and Rule 9 on
Family life and personal integrity.

14. THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
recognizes that women and girls with disabilities are
often at greater risk, both within and outside the
home, of violence, injury or abuse, neglect or
negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation .
= taken a two track approach to promoting gender
equality and the empowerment of women with
disabilities. It has as one of its principles equality
between men and women and it devotes an article
to women with disabilities

15. MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS-
urges States to pay special attention to the gender
specific needs of persons with disabilities,
including by taking measures to ensure their full
and effective enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental
calls on Governments to enable persons with
disabilities to participate as agents and
beneficiaries of Development =
ensuring that programmes and policies to
promoting gender equality and empowerment of
women and improving maternal health, among
others, are inclusive of and accessible to persons
with disabilities;

16. There is a need to take into
account and to address the
concerns of women and girls with
disabilities in all policy-making and
programming. Special measures are
also needed at all levels to
integrate them into the
mainstream of development

17. WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES WITHIN
THE WOMEN SECTOR
-NO RELIABLE DATA ON PWDS IN THE
PHILS,
-Their unique needs still unknown to
the women circle;
-No representation in national
organizations of women;
- lack of participation in sector
development and advocacy initiatives
at the local level;

18. WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES AND
POLICY
-LACK PARTICIPATION IN POLICY
DEVELOPMENT, NOT INCLUDED IN
CONSULTATIONS IN FORMULATIONS OF
LAWS AND POLICIES FOR WOMEN IN
GENERAL;
-NO REPRESENTATION IN THE LOCAL
COUNCIL OF WOMEN –A POWERFUL LOCAL
BODY WHERE WOMEN FULLY PARTICIPATE
IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

19. -IN PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND
IMPLEMENTATION, PROVISIONS FOR WOMEN
WITH DISABILITIES ARE NOT INCLUDED-
SUCH AS INTERPRETERS FOR DEAF
COMPLAINANTS AT THE WOMEN AND
CHILDREN’S DESK OF EVERY POLICE
SECTION AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES
FOR WWD TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL
AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN THEIR
RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES