India

While the AbilityAP programme is not formally linked to activities in India, the ILO subregional office in New Delhi has provided technical resource staff for many events related to disability and employment issues in the country. India has also sent representatives to ILO regional meetings, such as the ILO Expert Group Meeting on Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Vocational Training and the ILO/ESCAP Multinational Corporation Roundtable on Disability and Employment.

The ILO collaborated with Worth Trust (see below) and Workability International to offer the Worth Trust/Workability “Capacity Building Training Programme” for operators of production workshops for people with disabilities in Africa. The six-week programme included various classroom, interactive, problem solving and field trip activities to teach African counterparts about the business approach to marketing and operating a successful production workshop.

In November, 2003, the ILO provided funds for Hind Mazdoor Sabha, a workers’ organization, to hold a two-day Special Tripartite Meeting on Training and Employment Policies and Practices for People with Disabilities in India. The meeting was a follow-up to the ILO/Japan Technical Consultation on Training and Employment of People with Disabilities in Bangkok, 14-16 January 2003. Further, the ILO commissioned a paper on the status of training and employment of people with disabilities in India and identified three examples of good practices for inclusion in Moving Forward: Toward Decent Work for People with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific.

For more information about vocational training and employment of people with disabilities in India, consult the following:

• Training and Employment of People with Disabilities: India 2002. Part of the AbilityAsia Country Study Series, 2003. (pdf)
• Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy
  Wings to Fly---Children with Cerebral Palsy Find Their Way into Independent Adulthood in India (pdf)
• WORTH Trust
  A Training Centre Changes with the Times---Institutional Self-Sufficiency and Challenging Jobs for People with Physical Disabilities in India (pdf)
• Thakur Hari Prasad Institute
  Reaching Out to Rural Homes --- Mobile Team Intervention for Families Living with Intellectually Challenged Persons in India (pdf)

For more information about disability related laws and policies and the country consult our National Laws and Information pages.

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