Tanzania 2008 Disability Survey Report
The
major objective of the 2008 Tanzania Disability Survey was to determine the prevalence
of disability in the country. The survey also intended to determine living
conditions among people with disabilities, such as their experiences with the
physical environment and attitudes, their main sources of income, education
level, possession of assistive devices etc.
Available
at:
National
Bureau of Statistics, PO Box 796, Dar es Salaam, Tel: +255 22 23222722/3/4, dg@nbs.go.tz, www.nbs.go.tz
Tanzania Human Rights Report 2010
Tanzania
Human Rights Report 2010 gives a general overview of Tanzania and Zanzibar and
detailed reports on the execution and implementation of human rights in the
two, namely on civil rights and liberties, political rights, social rights, economic
rights, rights of vulnerable groups (which includes people with disabilities),
collective rights, domestic initiatives and human rights protection and
corruption and abuse of power. It also gives an overview of Tanzania and
international human rights law.
Available
at:
Legal
and Human Rights Centre (LHRC), PO Box 75254, Dar es Salaam, Tel: +255 22
2773038/48, lhrc@humanrights.or.tz,
www.humanrights.or.tz
Do children with disabilities have equal access to education? Dec
2008, HakiElimu
Despite
Tanzania’s very significant effort to increase the opportunities for children
to access schooling, there is still a serious under enrollment of children with
disabilities. BEST 2007 shows that only 1% of children with disabilities are in
school, where are the others? What are the reasons behind this situation? What
opportunities exist for them? And when will this problem come to an end?
HakiElimu commissioned this research study to investigate the above questions
about learning conditions and accessability to education for children with
disabilities.
Available
at:
HakiElimu,
PO Box 79401, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel:
+255 22 2151852/3
The participation of persons with disabilities in Tanzania’s 2010
general election, CCBRT
In
October 2010, CCBRT conducted a survey to assess the level of participation of
people with disabilities in Tanzania’s general election which was held on 31st
October 2010. Among key results, it was found that 63% of people with
disabilities participated directly in the election campaign. Most of them
accessed information about election through print and electronic media as
opposed to other methods such as friends, seminars or NGO’s. Just over half of
respondents said that the information provided was adequate in terms of meeting
their needs and expectations. 58% of respondents reported that polling stations
were not accessible. Many polling stations had no parking areas or adequate
signage to provide direction for people with disabilities. Also the doors were
not wide enough for wheelchair users to get through and most of them had no
ramps or pathways to enable access for people with disabilities.
Available
at:
Employment of persons with disabilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2010, CCBRT and RADAR Development
Between June and September 2010, CCBRT and Radar
Development conducted a survey to assess the number of persons with a disability
whon are employed in companies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and to analyse the
category of jobs that persons with a disability are engaged in. This survey
found that the employment rate amongst persons with disabilities was as low as
0.7 per cent of the total number of employees of the companies surveyed. The
majority of the companies (54 per cent) had not employed any person with a
disability. Management responses revealed that one of the factors leading to
this low rate of employment is lack of knowledge on where to recruit qualifi ed
persons with disabilities. However, according to the research assistants’
observations, employers also had negative attitudes towards persons with
disabilities in that employers tended to think that persons with disabilities
would not be able to work in such environments unless they made major
structural adjustments to the workplace.
Available
at:
The interaction between disabled and non-disabled people in
Tanzania, Action Research, 2011, ICD
This
action research was conducted in 2011/2012 by ICD to investigate the interaction
between disabled and non-disabled community members in Tanzania. Disabled
teachers and other human rights activists discussed in a workshop setting and
observed in the field to answer the questions of how are PWDs interacting with
their communities, how are the communities interacting with PWDs and what are
the challenges (and possible solutions) of their activist work.
PWDs
in Tanzania are interacting with the communities in which they live in a
variety of roles, as patients, businesspeople, friends and customers. They are
exposed to several limitations when trying to acess services, either for lack
of money or because of their disability. Often they adopt special behaviours in
dealing with their fellows, such as excluding themselves, being aggressive,
being afraid or reserved (not asking for their rights).
The
promotors reported that in about 60% of all cases they have observed a
discriminative, inconsiderate and non-caring attitude of the community members
towards PWDs (in about 40% of all cases they observed a non-discriminative,
considerate and caring attitude). They noticed several kinds of specific
behaviours towards PWDs, such as providing PWDs with material or financial
assistance, being surprised at seeing a PWD (especially one with education),
being hesitant to assist PWDs, denying PWDs the right to express themselves,
giving or not giving PWDs priority.
This
research wanted to get a comprehensive picture of the current situation of PWDs
in Tanzania. It concludes that MUTUAL DISTRUST is the main attitude that
characterizes the relationship between disabled and non-disabled Tanzanians and
that only intensive and targeted confrontations and exchanges between the two
parties can achieve a significant attitude change.
Available
at:
Information
Centre on Disability, ICD, PO Box 75576, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel:
+255 22 2400227, humanrights@icd-tanzania.org
Note: Many disability researches
on Tanzania done by international actors are offered by the webpages listed
under Disability Resources (especially AskSource and EENET).
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