PDRC and the PCCRPD join Social Watch Philippines and the Alternative
Budget Initiative for national budget monitoring
Statement read at International Disability Alliance Forum, 6 Sept. 2011, New York
The advice of Alex Cote of the International Disability Alliance in April 2011 to the Phil Coalition on the CRPD to engage with Social Watch has opened up one of the most explosive and exciting areas of legislative and budget reform that the PWD sector in the Philippines has ever experienced.
Within a short span of four months since the second training workshop of the Coalition under the IDA, the disability sector has emerged from being “invisible” to a receptive welcome by the budget monitoring CSO clusters for Education, Health, Agriculture and Health, in the Social Watch Philippines organization. The Alternative Budget Initiative of SWP has been monitoring the national budget for a decade, and has a powerful track record of annual budget insertions through CSO alternative budget proposals amounting to over 22 billion pesos since 2007.
Within a short span of four months since the second training workshop of the Coalition under the IDA, the disability sector has emerged from being “invisible” to a receptive welcome by the budget monitoring CSO clusters for Education, Health, Agriculture and Health, in the Social Watch Philippines organization. The Alternative Budget Initiative of SWP has been monitoring the national budget for a decade, and has a powerful track record of annual budget insertions through CSO alternative budget proposals amounting to over 22 billion pesos since 2007.
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Statement from the PWD Sector on the Proposed 2012 Budget
Whereas, it is a recognized national and global demographic that at least 10%, and up to 15% of any population is comprised of Persons with Disabilities, and that this is true for the Republic of the Philippines
Whereas, it is achnowledged that disability is an evolving concept and that it results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; and
Whereas, Persons and Disabilities have the right to live in dignity and equality with all others regardless of their disability, age, gender, language, religion, geographic location, property, ethnic, indigenous or social origin, educational attainment, or other status..
Whereas, it is achnowledged that disability is an evolving concept and that it results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; and
Whereas, Persons and Disabilities have the right to live in dignity and equality with all others regardless of their disability, age, gender, language, religion, geographic location, property, ethnic, indigenous or social origin, educational attainment, or other status..
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