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Enabling the Disabled (Project Report)

Assessment of Local Mechanisms for Programs and Services for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) - Focus on the Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO)

Erwin Gaspar Alampay, Elyzabeth Cureg & Don Jeffery Quebral
Eight years after the RA10070 was passed, only six of every 10 local government units had PDAOs. This was consistent with DILG’s 2017 own profiling data. Through a non-randomized survey, the study found low awareness among local legislators on the requirements of RA 10070. More than half of the provinces (58%) and higher income municipalities (63%) are non-compliant with RA 10070.

The assessment also found that non-compliance comes in different forms such as the assignment of PWD focal persons with other concurrent positions in the LGU, placement of the PWD unit under the social welfare office, or the non-observance of the general assembly process that was stipulated in the IRR. Non-compliance is partly explained by the weakness of the law and its IRR. The use of PWD “Focal Person” for 4th to 6th class municipalities was sometimes treated the same way as how GAD focal persons were treated, which justified their concurrent appointments.

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