Horizontal Issues
Welcome to the Horizontal Issues Knowledge Centre!
Here you will be able to find regularly updated database of theoretical and practical materials & resources on Horizontal Issues for service provision to people with disabilities, such as :
- Policy and Legislation
- Quality of Services
- Funding of Services
- Users' involvement and Co-production
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You'll also be able to find information related to several EASPD projects. At the moment, the projects available are:
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Make it Easy-A Guide to Preparing Easy to Read Information | ||||
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DescriptionThis publication aims to provide advice and guidance to people new to producing Easy to Read information.Reference | ||||
Making Community - Based Services a Reality Roadmap on Deinstitutionalisation | ||||
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Description This report explains how to succeed a deinstitutionnalisation transition for implementing person-centred services in an inclusive way, under the UNCRPD call for a re-shaped service. Reference http://www.easpd.eu/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Policy/easpd_di_roadmap_final.pdf | ||||
Making Ideas Happen, Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality | ||||
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Description This book aims to take pie-in-the-sky notions of how the creative process unfolds and make them realisitc. Out of the analysis of the most succesful and productive creatives, entrepreneurs, and business people truly make ideas happen, it can be said that "having the ideas" is just a small part of the process. Reference http://www.vnseameo.org/ndbmai/MIH.pdf | ||||
Making it Work - CRPD Resource Library | ||||
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DescriptionThe Making It Work (MIW) initiative aims at generating lasting improvements in the lives of persons with disabilities, in line with the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This initiative is based on identifying effective or innovative practices that have achieved positive changes, whether from grass-roots level initiatives or regional-level activities, and analyzing how they could be sustained or replicated. Report date n.a. Referencehttp://www.makingitwork-crpd.org/ | ||||
Mental Health, Human Rights and Standards of Care - Assessment of the Quality of Institutional Care for Adults with Psychosocial and Intellectual Disabilities in the WHO European Region | ||||
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Description The WHO project on adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities living in institutions in the European Region addresses a highly marginalized, vulnerable group whose quality of life, human rights and reinclusion in society are compromised by outdated, often inhumane institutional practices. The goal of the initiative is to promote and facilitate deinstitutionalization. A first step is better understanding of the scale and quality of long-term care arrangements in the WHO European Region. The specific objectives were to address gaps in knowledge about the number and characteristics of long-term institutions and to identify deficiencies in current care standards from the perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Reference http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/373202/mental-health-programme-eng.pdf | ||||
Monitoring of Legislation, Policies and Programs: Observance of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Moldova | ||||
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Description This report has as its main aim monitoring of legislation, policies and programs related to the observance of rights of persons with disabilities in the Republic of Moldova in the context of ratification by the Republic of Moldova of the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted as of December 13, 2006. Reference https://fr.scribd.com/document/229330775/Monitoring-of-legislation-policies-and-programs-observance-of-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-in-Republic-of-Moldova#scribd | ||||
Monitorizarea legislaţiei, politicilor şi programelor: respectarea drepturilor ale persoanelor cu dizabilităţi în Republica Moldova | ||||
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Description The present Report has as its main aim monitoring of legislation, policies and programs related to the observance of human rights of persons with disabilities in the Republic of Moldova in the context of ratification by the Republic of Moldova of the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted as of December 13, 2006. Reference | ||||
Monitorizarea Mass-mediei şi Atitudinii Societăţii cu Privire la Persoanele cu Dizabilităţi | ||||
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Description The discriminatory attitude towards persons with disabilities is a consequence of the devalued policies of the state. In this context, the research „Monitoring of mass-media and of the societal attitude related to per-sons with disabilities” provides a comprehensive analysis of the way the issues related to disability are approached. Reference | ||||
Motivation | ||||
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Description Psychologists have debated and investigated where such a passion to create might come from if it exists at all. Regardless of how it begins, the motivation underlying creativity is self-reinforcing. Creative ideas stimulate the inspiration that fuels creative achievement. Reference http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123750389002843 | ||||