Learning Activity 2.D: Facilitating Employment for Persons with Disabilities

Finally, it presents a range of measures that can be taken to promote employment opportunities and career advancement for persons with disabilities. These include mainstreaming disability in national development plans, setting up of supported employment programmes, micro-financing, and ensuring accessibility to information, ICTs, public services, facilities and transportation

Learning Activity 2.D.: Facilitating Employment for Persons with Disabilities.
Handout for Consultancy Teams

Step One

Your team is a consultancy providing expert advice in how to facilitate employment for persons with disabilities. You provide advice to both employees and employers. Give your consultancy a name and draw a Logo (you have only 5 minutes to do this).

Step Two

You will receive a visitor, listen to their story and then, with them present, discuss what options they have and what advice you can offer.

Step Three

You will see the person you advised have a meeting, note down how the meeting went and how much of your advice they were able to use.

Step four

The person will revisit you (but this time as themselves not as the role player) and discuss as a group what you thought was good advice and what you might have done differently. Did you consider the difference between universal access and reasonable accommodation?

You have 5 minutes to complete Step One, 20 minutes for your Consultation Meetings, and a further 15 minutes to review your advice (Step 4) after the role plays.