Practice Notes: Citizen Voice and Action for Disability
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Children and other persons with disability in communities where WV works are often excluded from decision-making and advocacy efforts. Persons with disability are stigmatized in most countries, even if they are wealthy. This means that their needs are often ignored in the development of legislation, policy, budgets, and in the provision of services. Even services designed for persons with disability are often designed without their engagement.
Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), World Vision’s proven approach to social accountability, provides a structure to support the engagement of persons with disability to take a leadership role. CVA also provides a way to collect data on issues of persons with disability’s access to rights and services that isn’t typically available from government data. This data can then inform better decision-making.
This practice note is intended to help you to use CVA to address issues related to disability, as a supplement to existing resources on CVA implementation.
For more information:
- On disability inclusion contact - ewinter@worldvision.org
- On Citizen Voice and Action contact - sarah_onduko-obiri@wvi.org
