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The guideline aims to contribute to the improvement in knowledge on EU Structural and Investment Funds amongst public social services in order to ensure that they are better able to access the Funds and, once accessed, that they are able to use Funds effectively, generating sustainable impact in their country, region or local community. The paper focuses in particular on the use of European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Reference 

http://www.esn-eu.org/news/469/index.html

Description

This report was made by EASPD and Vlerick Business School: the goal of the project was to research and discover why the social services sector in Europe - especially the social service providers for persons with disabilities - faces a lack of workforce, even with the unemployment rates that the European Union faces in the present crisis.

Reference

https://www.easpd.eu/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Policy/Vlerick/gsb_report_easpd.pdf

Description

This report offers information on the rights of persons with disabilities: cross-cutting themes, priority areas and working methods.

Reference

https://rm.coe.int/16806fe7d4

Description 

The report presents the analysis of the Mapping 2015 of the project 'ICT-enabled Social Innovation to support the Implementation of the Social Investment Package' (IESI). It provides an enriched picture of the existing knowledge base and evidence of how ICT-enabled social innovation initiatives that promote social investment through integrated approaches to social services delivery can contribute to the policy objectives of the EU Social Investment Package (SIP) to support the achievement of the goals of the EU 2020 strategy in terms of inclusive growth and employment.

Reference 

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/ict-enabled-social-innovation-support-implementation-social-investment-package-mapping-and

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This alternative report contains the views of Slovak and international organisations representing persons with disabilities. It presents a  description of  the current situation in the Slovak Republic and explains in which areas the law and practice violate respective Article of the UNCRPD.

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This is an alternative report of non-governmental and Disabled Persons' Organisations on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, in Slovakia.

Reference 

http://www.mdac.org/sites/mdac.info/files/crpd_slovakia_alternative_report.pdf

Description

The document focuses on the objectives of the Convention in relation to the research data and statistics, monitoring and evaluation of the information concerning the situation of persons with disabilities.

Reference

http://drpi.research.yorku.ca/8th-conference-of-states-parties-to-the-crpd-9-11-june-2015/

Investt is a European project aiming at building a strategy for implementing universal design in the mainstream vocational education and training system (VET). Investt project will help person with disabilities to reach the same skill level as other students, improving their transition from school to the open labour market.

Reference 

http://www.investt.eu/

Description 

This brief paper offers an inventory to help implement change strategies and achieve person-centered planning for people with severe disabilities. The inventory is intended to examine use of 12 resources that facilitate change and increase the chance of good outcomes. 

Reference 

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED475788.pdf

A manual is usually a book giving instruct on or information. This manual is written to provide tools for change through information. It does not set out to give instruction, specifically, but to offer examples of routes, histories and

circumstances that have occurred in Europe. It identifies frameworks, ideas, challenges, myths and hope.

The routes for Turkey are dependent on Turkey’s infrastructure, the attitudes of Government, existing legal systems and different stakeholders. These in turn are contextualised within Europe and internationally. But as with elsewhere it is for disabled people and disabled people’s organisations to lead, act and work together for the future they want to see. Change does not come because we wait for it, but because we fight for it. While we have a framework of rights, those rights must have a political will behind them so that they are implemented, monitored, shaped and improved by disabled people themselves. It is up to us to change our lives and convince others to support us in doing so until we achieve full independent living and equality everywhere for all disabled people.