Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM+M) for CBR and other Community-Based Disability Inclusive Development Programs - Manual

Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a valued community development approach but there is a lack of evidence of its efficacy (World Report on Disability 2011; and more recently confirmed in the Global Disability Action Plan 2014). Monitoring is a first step to build the evidence base and assist decision-making. The Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney, in collaboration with CBR stakeholders from the Asia Pacific region, has produced a monitoring manual and menu (MM&M) for CBR and other community-based disability inclusive development programs. The MM&M offers these programs guidance to plan and implement locally controlled monitoring activities that empower stakeholders with information – including but not limited to people with disabilities, their families and communities.Centre for Disability Research and Polic

Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM+M) for CBR and other Community-Based Disability Inclusive Development Programs - Menu

Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a valued community development approach but there is a lack of evidence of its efficacy (World Report on Disability 2011; and more recently confirmed in the Global Disability Action Plan 2014). Monitoring is a first step to build the evidence base and assist decision-making. The Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney, in collaboration with CBR stakeholders from the Asia Pacific region, has produced a monitoring manual and menu (MM&M) for CBR and other community-based disability inclusive development programs. The MM&M offers these programs guidance to plan and implement locally controlled monitoring activities that empower stakeholders with information – including but not limited to people with disabilities, their families and communities.Centre for Disability Research and Polic

SUBMISSION ON THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME BILL 2012 TO THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES ON COMMUNITY AFFAIRS JANUARY 2013

The NDIS is an important and needed reform to Australia’s disability system. There is much of merit in the NDIS Bill. Its implementation poses some challenges, to ensure a clear, sustainable and rights-based system, resulting in the outcomes desired by the community. This submission seeks to contribute to the current review of the draft NDIS legislation, and to the design and implementation of the Scheme. We have concentrated on areas where we believe we have something constructive to offer in the timeframe. None of our comments or suggestions implies a need for delay in the Scheme. Our suggestions are framed in the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (CRPD), the technical framework of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) and an entitlement-based service system which supports people’s rights to participate in all areas of life and seeks to provide an environment which enables these rights to be exercised. Our main suggestions are as follows: Section 23: Residence criteria should be based on Medicare criteria, to promote the equity of the NDIS in the wider service system. Sections 24, 25, 27: Disability requirements and related rules should be based on an accurate representation of the ICF. Embedding the old linear causal model of disability in the Bill will lead to confusion, inefficiency and challenge. The idea of ‘permanent impairment’ is not helpful and should be changed. New provisions for these Sections are proposed. Some suggestions about the design of assessment instruments are included. Section 26: Our discussion provides some ideas about why and how additional expert reports may assist the process and the person with disability involved. A medical examination should not become routinely sought and nor should a health condition become part of the eligibility criteria. Long-term cost containment suggestions are made – including developing models which better estimate the costs of reasonable and necessary supports, as the NDIS matures and experience builds. Such measures are needed, to protect the universality and sustainability of the Scheme. Chapter 5 on compensation should be removed and replaced by government-togovernment agreements and compensation reforms, to preserve the primacy and universality of the NDIS, and to avoid the costs of adjustment being borne by individual people with disabilities. National statistics must be published as part of the Agency’s responsibilities and as part of its public accountability for outcomes from the Scheme. As recommended by the Productivity Commission, data should be made available for research. Data should be based on the ICF so that it relates to population survey data and data from other sources based on this international standard. Such data must include information on the environment of people and the service system surrounding the ICF. A critical part of the Australian environment is information and communication Submission on NDIS Bill 25 January 2013 2 technologies; at present, however, there are shortfalls in access of Australians with disabilities to digital technologies — a 'disability digital divide'. Nationally, we have little precise idea about the scale, scope, and impact of this digital exclusion. This will affect, but can be remedied by, the administration of the Scheme. There should be at least 3 people on the NDIS Board with experience or knowledge of the provision or use of disability services (Section 127). There are lessons to be learned from international experience, service systems and the wider literature. Implications for the NDIS frameworks, principles and terminology are discussed in our final section.Centre for Disability Research and Polic

The Disability Inclusive Disaster Resilience (DiDR) Tool: Development and Field Testing

This is the third Technical Report in a three part series for the two year DFAT Australian Aid funded project (2013-2015), Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. This report details the development, refinement and field–testing of the Disability Inclusive Disaster Resilience (DiDR) tool. The purpose of the DiDR tool is to identify the resilience and capabilities of people with disabilities to natural disasters in their family and community setting. The tool is designed to be used by people with disabilities, their families or carers and thereby to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policy making and strategy implementation. The tool assesses the resilience of people with disabilities by bringing together four components known to be fundamental to disaster risk reduction: the individual’s functioning status, their level of participation in their communities, the physical vulnerability of their place of residence, and individual risk predictors known to influence the behaviour of the general population before, during and after a natural hazard emergency.Centre for Disability Research and Polic

Practitioner Guidelines for Capacity Building for Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

Disability inclusive disaster risk reduction (DiDRR) is increasingly recognised as an important component of community resilience in the event of a natural disaster as documented in the recent outcome of the 3rd World Conference, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. Central to disability inclusive disaster risk reduction is people with disabilities themselves and their capacities to participate in, and contribute to disaster risk reduction policies, practices and programs. These Practitioner Guidelines provide orientation to the Work Packages undertaken to build the capacity of people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction in Indonesia as part of the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Development and Research Awards Scheme funded project, 2013-2015, Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. These Work Packages formed one component of the project with knowledge transfer and capacity building supplemented by other methods within the project, including coaching and sponsoring participation of select trainees at key post-2015 DRR policy events.This research was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australian Development Research Awards Scheme under an award titled “Promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in disaster management in Indonesia”Centre for Disability Research and Polic

Practitioner Guidelines for Capacity Building for Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

Disability inclusive disaster risk reduction (DiDRR) is increasingly recognised as an important component of community resilience in the event of a natural disaster as documented in the recent outcome of the 3rd World Conference, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. Central to disability inclusive disaster risk reduction is people with disabilities themselves and their capacities to participate in, and contribute to disaster risk reduction policies, practices and programs. These Practitioner Guidelines provide orientation to the Work Packages undertaken to build the capacity of people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction in Indonesia as part of the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Development and Research Awards Scheme funded project, 2013-2015, Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. These Work Packages formed one component of the project with knowledge transfer and capacity building supplemented by other methods within the project, including coaching and sponsoring participation of select trainees at key post-2015 DRR policy events.This research was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australian Development Research Awards Scheme under an award titled “Promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in disaster management in Indonesia”Centre for Disability Research and Polic

Capacity Building for Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

This Technical Report details the Capacity Building component of the Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia project. This project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Development and Research Awards Scheme 2013-2015. This award scheme promotes research and development programs through collaboration between researchers in Australia and elsewhere and INGOs and NGOs in country. Relevant to capacity building, two aims of the Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia project were: 1. To increase the understanding of people with disabilities of Disaster Risk Reduction and their capacity to engage with Disaster Risk Reduction policy; and, 2. To understand and subsequently inform the knowledge base of village volunteers (Kaders subsequently referred to as cadres) and DRR administrators about DiDRR at local and national levels in IndonesiaThis research was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australian Development Research Awards Scheme under an award titled “Promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in disaster management in Indonesia”Centre for Disability Research and Polic

Technical Report 1, 2015 Mapping of organisations in Indonesia in disaster risk reduction (MOIDRR)

This is the first Technical Report in a three part series for the two year DFAT Australian Aid funded project (2013-2015), Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. This report details the mapping of organisations in Indonesia working in disaster risk reduction (DRR). The two year project was concerned with understanding the gaps between disability inclusive policy and practices in DRR and supporting opportunities to include people with disabilities in all phases of disaster risk management. The premise of this work was that reducing the vulnerability of people with disability during disasters is a key strategy to promote broader community resilience. The direct and practical solutions that people with disability can offer to community-level DRR activities should be a key consideration within all phases of disaster risk management. Inclusion of people with disabilities in DRR before, during, and after disasters contributes to the “whole-of-community” approach to disaster resilience advocated in contemporary policy and enacted by DRR agencies. This project was initially framed within an increasing awareness of disability inclusion in DRR globally which is now articulated in the recently issued Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (UNDISR, 2015), and within an increasingly supportive policy environment in IndonesiaThis research was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australian Development Research Awards Scheme under an award titled “Promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in disaster management in Indonesia”.Centre for Disability Research and Polic

The Disability Inclusive Disaster Resilience (DiDR) Tool: Development and Field Testing

This is the third Technical Report in a three part series for the two year DFAT Australian Aid funded project (2013-2015), Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. This report details the development, refinement and field–testing of the Disability Inclusive Disaster Resilience (DiDR) tool. The purpose of the DiDR tool is to identify the resilience and capabilities of people with disabilities to natural disasters in their family and community setting. The tool is designed to be used by people with disabilities, their families or carers and thereby to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policy making and strategy implementation. The tool assesses the resilience of people with disabilities by bringing together four components known to be fundamental to disaster risk reduction: the individual’s functioning status, their level of participation in their communities, the physical vulnerability of their place of residence, and individual risk predictors known to influence the behaviour of the general population before, during and after a natural hazard emergency.Centre for Disability Research and Polic

POLICY BULLETIN 3, 2014 - NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME: IMPACT ON THE COMMONWEALTH BUDGET T0 2019-20

NDIS expenses are entirely paid by the Commonwealth, through the NDIA. Funds are provided by Commonwealth appropriation. From 1 July 2014, the Commonwealth collects the DisabilityCare Australia (DCA) levy, 0.5% of taxable income. The levy is an extension of the Medicare levy (1.5%). The DCA levy is paid into the DisabilityCare Australia Fund (DCA Fund), which is invested by the Future Fund Guardians. $825M of the DCA levy proceeds (just less than 25%) is reserved in 2014-15 to assist the States and Territories meet their NDIS obligations over time; this amount will be indexed in future years at 3.5% per annum. The Commonwealth releases this funding to the States and Territories as they meet their obligations in relation to the NDIS. The Commonwealth/State agreements provide for the States to make payments to the Commonwealth to offset the Commonwealth NDIS expenses. The Commonwealth/State agreements for initiating the NDIS provide for the States to repay a portion of their Specific Purpose Payments (SPPs) received from the Commonwealth in respect of disability, as the NDIS progressively reduces the proportion of services for people with disability that are financed through the existing arrangements. The paper gathers detail from across the 2014-15 Budget papers 1 on each of these sources of financing, over the period of the Forward Estimates (2014-15 to 2017-18) and for 2018-19 and 2019-20. It also draws on the Bilateral Agreements for NDIS Launch between the Commonwealth and various State and Territory Governments and the Heads of Agreement between the Commonwealth and the various State and Territory Governments on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Estimates made by the Australian Government Actuary are also used.Centre for Disability Research and Polic