Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia
Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) requires countries to harmonise their legislative frameworks with it. This paper investigates the national legislative frameworks of four Asian countries to see the extent to which they provide suppo...
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| author | Shivani Gupta Agnes Meershoek Luc P. de Witte |
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| description | Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) requires countries to harmonise their legislative frameworks with it. This paper investigates the national legislative frameworks of four Asian countries to see the extent to which they provide support services in accordance with Article 19 of the UN CRPD. The UN CRPD requires persons with disabilities to have <i>access to</i> and <i>choice and control</i> over support services. To analyse the policy alignment with the UN CRPD, an analytical framework based on the Capability Approach (CA) was developed. The results show that most countries address support services, including assistive devices, only from the perspective of a social security measure for persons with disabilities living in poverty, failing to uphold the rights of those not meeting those eligibility criteria. However, while support services are inseparably linked to social security, they also are a right for persons with disabilities. Therefore, a paradigm shift is required in the approach of support services and the distributive systems of countries, from one that addresses persons with disabilities as those <i>requiring care</i> considered a <i>burden</i>, to one that considers them rights holders with equal opportunities, for which, support services are a pre-requisite. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-300aff3165d44a30897f403e8e9595cf2023-11-24T18:01:59ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982022-12-0112618510.3390/soc12060185Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in AsiaShivani Gupta0Agnes Meershoek1Luc P. de Witte2CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission Christian Blind Mission e.V. Stubenwald-Allee 5, 64625 Bensheim, GermanySchool CAPHRI, Care and Public Health Research Institute, University of Maastricht, 6200 MD Maastricht, The NetherlandsCentre of Expertise Health Innovation, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, 2521 EN The Hague, The NetherlandsImplementation of the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN CRPD) requires countries to harmonise their legislative frameworks with it. This paper investigates the national legislative frameworks of four Asian countries to see the extent to which they provide support services in accordance with Article 19 of the UN CRPD. The UN CRPD requires persons with disabilities to have <i>access to</i> and <i>choice and control</i> over support services. To analyse the policy alignment with the UN CRPD, an analytical framework based on the Capability Approach (CA) was developed. The results show that most countries address support services, including assistive devices, only from the perspective of a social security measure for persons with disabilities living in poverty, failing to uphold the rights of those not meeting those eligibility criteria. However, while support services are inseparably linked to social security, they also are a right for persons with disabilities. Therefore, a paradigm shift is required in the approach of support services and the distributive systems of countries, from one that addresses persons with disabilities as those <i>requiring care</i> considered a <i>burden</i>, to one that considers them rights holders with equal opportunities, for which, support services are a pre-requisite.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/12/6/185capability approachsupport serviceschoice and controleligibilityrole of the familyagency |
| spellingShingle | Shivani Gupta Agnes Meershoek Luc P. de Witte Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia Societies capability approach support services choice and control eligibility role of the family agency |
| title | Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia |
| title_full | Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia |
| title_fullStr | Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia |
| title_short | Using the Capability Approach to Review the National Legislative Frameworks for Support Services for Persons with Disabilities in Four Countries in Asia |
| title_sort | using the capability approach to review the national legislative frameworks for support services for persons with disabilities in four countries in asia |
| topic | capability approach support services choice and control eligibility role of the family agency |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/12/6/185 |
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