Appendix 1 – Questionnaire for Public Officials

Information about institutions housing disabled individuals 

  1. What is the total number of institutions that accommodate persons with disabilities? 
  2. How many are public / private / non-profit? (Distribution)
  3. What is their distribution across the country? (e.g., rural / urban areas)
  4. What are the types of disabilities that institutions mostly host?
    1. How many institutions exist for each type of disability? (for persons with visual impairments? For Down syndrome? Etc.) (numbers)
    2. How many are mixed?
  5. What is the total number of persons with disabilities living in institutions? Do you have the distribution by age, sex, type of disability, orphans, abandoned, presence of parents and nationality?
  6. What is the process of registration and certification for institutions housing disabled individuals? Is it the same for public and private?
  7. Do these institutions send regular reports about their development and activities? To whom? What is the periodicity?
  8. What is the process of quality control? Are these institutions regularly inspected? What is the periodicity?
    1. What were the main problems discovered during inspections?
    2. Do you have reports about abuse?
  9. Are you aware of homes for elderly that may also host persons with disabilities? Do you know how many?
    1. If yes, where are they located? Are they public or private? Is the number increasing or decreasing?
    2. Do they undergo the same registration, certification and quality control process? How are they supervised?
  10. Do you have information about persons with disabilities in the population in prisons?
    1. Do you have any statistics? What do they say?
  11. Do you have information of children with disabilities in orphanages? 
    1. Do you have any statistics? What do they say?
  12. Are there institutions that mostly serve persons with disabilities from affluent families? How many? 
  13. Are there institutions who serve mainly poor? How many? Where?  Public or private?

Ministries’ support of institutions housing disabled 

  1. Does the ministry support the cost of caring for children in private (profit or nonprofit making) institutions? If yes, how much does the ministry pay per child?  
  2. Can you describe the process in which an institution housing children with disabilities has to undergo to receive funding from the ministry? 
    1. Are there criteria for these institutions in order to receive funding (size, qualification of staff, type of work etc.)? 
    2. Are there criteria for the types of disabilities which the ministry supports in institutions housing disabled persons? 
    3. Are these institutions inspected by the ministry prior to receiving the funding? If yes what do you inspect? 
    4. Are they inspected after they receive funds? If yes, how frequently are they inspected? 
    5. What kind of information do you collect from these institutions during inspection? Do you interview the cared for? their parents? 

Database and information on disabled persons living in institutions 

  1. Do you have a database of disabled individuals in institutions?  If yes, what are the most predominant disabilities? How severe? Age? Gender? Nationality? Temporarily residence or permanent? 
  2. Other useful statistics on persons with disabilities in institutions?

Government policies towards institutions for disabled? 

  1. What is the government position concerning the de-institutionalization of disabled people? Do you think there is a need to decrease or increase the number of such institutions? 
  2. What is the medium-term government policy for the institutions?
  3. What do you think are the main reasons why disabled individuals live in institutions? 
  4. What could help reduce the number of disabled individuals living in institutions? 
  5. Does the government have a plan for de-institutionalization?
  6. Additional useful information.