Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-rnpqb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-29T08:23:36.989Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

International cooperation and the inclusion of persons with disabilities: the Italian system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Francesca Ortali ,
Giampiero Griffo  and
Simonetta Capobianco
Francesca Ortali*
Affiliation:
Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau (AIFO), Bologna, Italy
Giampiero Griffo
Affiliation:
World Council, Disabled People's International (DPI)
Simonetta Capobianco
Affiliation:
Rete Italiana Disabilità e Sviluppo (RIDS), Italy
*
∗Corresponding author. Email: francesca.ortali@aifo.it
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Two key themes emerging from recent studies on disability are the shift in the conception of persons with disabilities, expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), from objects to subjects of policies concerning them and the recognition of the close interconnections between disability and poverty. Both themes have clear implications for international development cooperation. It is essential that the high number of persons with disabilities in developing countries is recognised and that the programmes implemented by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including those in emergencies and disasters, are made fully inclusive of them. Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes are important in achieving inclusiveness and fulfilling the rights of persons with disabilities. Italian NGOs such as AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau) have played an important role in helping launch CBR, most notably in Mongolia. Two sets of research data published in 2008 have measured the impact of Italian action on disability in international development cooperation. The reports on the one hand reveal inadequate levels of funding in general, and funding by banks and private companies in particular, and insufficient involvement of disabled persons' organisations, but on the other suggest that Italy's domestic experience of advanced disability legislation can be productively applied in international contexts to include and empower persons with disabilities.

Keywords

development cooperationCRPDcommunity-based rehabilitation (CBR)Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)Capability
Type
Articles
Information
Modern Italy , Volume 19 , Issue 2: Disability rights and wrongs in Italy , May 2014 , pp. 213 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

AIFO-DPI (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau and Disabled People's International Italia). 2010. Submission for the Study to be Prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Implementing Human Rights Council Resolution 13/11 on the Role of International Cooperation in Support of National Efforts for the Realization of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Available online at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disability/docs/study/ITALY_AIFO_and_DPI.doc Google Scholar
Barbuto, Rita, Biggeri, Mario, and Griffo, Giampiero. 2011. “Life Project, Peer Counselling and Self-Help Groups as Tools to Expand Capabilities, Agency and Human Rights.” Alter: European Journal of Disability Research 5(3):192–205. doi: 10.1016/j.alter.2011.05.007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Biggeri, Mario, and Bellanca, Nicolò, eds. 2011. L'approccio delle capability applicato alla disabilità: dalla teoria dello Sviluppo Umano alla pratica. Arezzo: UmanaMENTE. Available online at: http://www.oxfamitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Umanamente_Interno_Copertina_@.pdf Google Scholar
Coleridge, Peter, Simonnot, Claude, and Steverlynck, Dominique. 2010. Study of Disability in EC Development Cooperation. Brussels: European Commission. Available online at: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/social-protection/documents/223185_disability_study_en.pdf Google Scholar
Deepak, Sunil. 2012. Promoting Empowerment: Emancipatory Research in Community-Based Rehabilitation Programmes: A Guide for CBR Programme Managers. Bologna: AIFO. Available online at: http://english.aifo.it/disability/documents/books_manuals/Promoting_empowerment_light_version.pdf Google Scholar
Deepak, Sunil, Kumar, Jayanth, Ramasamy, Parthipan, and Griffo, Giampiero. 2013. “An Emancipatory Research on CBR and the Barriers Faced by Persons with Disabilities.” Disability and Rehabilitation: posted online prior to publication. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2013.800914.Google Scholar
Griffo, Giampiero. 2011. “La doppia povertà dei disabili.” Solidarietà internazionale 22(10):27–28.Google Scholar
Griffo, Giampiero. 2013. “The Human Rights Perspective for an Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities.” In 1st European Mind Change Conference, ‘Social Inclusion for People with Disabilities’, Villach, Austria, May 2–4, 2012. Villach: Mind Change.Google Scholar
Griffo, Giampiero, and Ortali, Francesca, eds. 2008. Manuale di formazione sui diritti umani delle persone con disabilità. La partecipazione delle organizzazioni di persone con disabilità e loro familiari al processo di ratifica, monitoraggio ed implementazione della Convenzione delle Nazioni unite sui diritti delle persone con disabilità. Milan: Comune di Milano–AIFO–DPI Italia. Available as CD–ROM, translated into English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mongolian.Google Scholar
Gruppo CRC (Gruppo di Lavoro per la Convenzione sui Diritti dell'Infanzia e dell'Adolescenza). 2012. I diritti dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza in Italia. 5° Rapporto di aggiornamento sul monitoraggio della Convenzione sui diritti dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza in Italia 2011–2012. Rome: Gruppo CRC. Available online at: http://www.gruppocrc.net/IMG/pdf/5o_Rapporto_di_aggiornamento__Gruppo_CRC.pdf Google Scholar
IDDC (International Disability and Development Consortium). 2008. Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Disability in Development Cooperation. Available online at: http://www.make-development-inclusive.org/toolsen/aifomai08.pdf Google Scholar
ILO-UNESCO–WHO. 2004. CBR: A Strategy for Rehabilitation, Equalization of Opportunities, Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion for People with Disabilities. Joint position paper. Geneva: WHO. Available online at: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2004/9241592389_eng.pdf Google Scholar
Lafratta, Michaela, Marano, Maria, and Saquella, Serena. 2012. Cooperazione allo sviluppo e diritti umani. Atti del ciclo di seminari sui diritti dei minori e delle persone con disabilità nell'ambito delle attività e delle politiche della cooperazione internazionale. Rome: Nuova Cultura.Google Scholar
Lord, Janet, Posarac, Aleksandra, Nicoli, Marco, Peffley, Karen, McClain-Nhlapo, Charlotte, and Keogh, Mary. 2010. Disability and International Cooperation and Development: A Review of Policies and Practices. S.P. Discussion Paper No. 1003. Washington, DC: World Bank. Available online at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DISABILITY/Resources/Publications-Reports/Disability_and_Intl__Cooperation.pdf Google Scholar
MAE-DGCS (Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo). 2010. Linee Guida per l'introduzione della tematica della disabilità nell'ambito delle politiche e delle attività della cooperazione italiana. Rome: MAE. Available online at: http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/documentazione/PubblicazioniTrattati/2010-07-01_LineeGuidaDisabilita.pdf Google Scholar
MAE-DGCS. 2013. Piano di Azione sulla disabilità della Cooperazione Italiana. Rome: MAE. Available online at: http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/Documentazione/NormativaItaliana/2013_30_10_PDA-ENGL-ESEC.pdf Google Scholar
MAE-World Bank. 2010. Disabilità, Cooperazione Internazionale e Sviluppo. L'esperienza della Cooperazione Italiana 2000–2008. Rome: MAE. Available online at: http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/italiano/Pubblicazioni/AltrePubblicazioni/Pdf/Vol.2_Italian_Cooperazione_ITA.pdf Google Scholar
UNHCHR. 2010. Thematic Study by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Role of International Cooperation in Support of National Efforts for the Realization of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York: United Nations. Available online at: http://www2.ohchr.org/SPdocs/Issues/Disability/A.HRC.16.38_en.doc Google Scholar
WHO. 2010. Community-Based Rehabilitation Guidelines. Geneva: WHO. Available online at: http://www.who.int/disabilities/cbr/guidelines/en/index.html Google Scholar