Description

The main problem of the current disability assessment is the medical approach which does not fully provide an opportunity to employ the human-rights based approach while supporting people with disabilities. Therefore, the output will select one district (potentially in Tashkent city or Gulistan district of the Syrdarya region) to develop and pilot ICF and CRPD compliant disability assessment and social services aimed at providing equal opportunities and improving economic self-sustainability capacities of people with disabilities.  The results of the pilot will be used to identify the benefits and risks of ICF introduction and cost its national rollout. All this will contribute to development of the upstream and downstream policy advice on introduction and fully-fledged implementation of the ICF and CRPD compliant disability assessment and social services in Uzbekistan. About 200 first registered persons with disability will be directly benefiting from the pilot interventions. And if the pilot is subsequently scaled up countrywide, the system will have an impact on the entire population of people with disabilities.