CENTRE
FOR SERVICES AND INFORMATION ON DISABILITY
A Centre for Services, Research & Information
01. Accessible Information and Resource Sharing
and Networking:
Coverage: Mass People (Around 30,000
People)
Accessible Internet-based
Disability Information Dissemination Network (DID-N) and Disability Resource
Centre (DRC)
Major Objective: To improve Internet based DID Network in terms of its design, content, diversification of information, accessibility features, interactive features and coverage etc. and developed as more user friendly.
Funding by: CSID
02. Study/Research:
CSID as yet conducted 29 Researches including International Research on different issues which include – National Budget, working children, Education of disabled persons, Home based workers, Situation of Children and Women with Disabilities, Disaster & Disability, Employment situation of Disabled people etc.
Study/Research conducted as yet: 28 Researches and Study
03. Community-Based
Support Services:
The programme components include:
a)
Rehabilitation
Coverage: Around 6000 children and adult
with disabilities
i.) Improving education and health for deaf blind people
in Bangladesh
Project Location: Keranigonj, Dhaka
The broad objective is to Improve the lives of deaf blind
children and include into the mainstream schools.
b) Education
Coverage: Around 7000 children with disabilities
i) Promotion of Socio Emotional Learning and Resilience
Building for Children with Disabilities.
Project location: Greater Mirpur of Dhaka City
Broad objective: To create an enabling environment for children with disabilities in primary schools.
Funding by: Porticus
4) ICT Based Training & Employment
Coverage: Around 900 youth and adult with disabilities
Funding by: Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), ICT
Division
i) Project Title: Computer Training for Persons with
Disabilities in BCC Head Quarters and 8 Regional Offices.
The main vision of CSID’s ICT activities is to
ensuring better life for Persons with Disabilities through creating access to
information and Mainstream ICT services. CSID is the only organization in
Bangladesh formally works for Persons with Disabilities with ICT Division under
Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information. CSID has the formal
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ICT Division, government of Bangladesh.
In each year CSID and ICT Division have jointly organized Job Fair for Persons
with Disabilities and National IT Competition for Youth with Disabilities.
Under these initiative as yet 267 persons with disabilities has been employed
in different sectors among total 451 persons with disabilities trained from
Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of ICT Division.
Again CSID has formal agreement with some big umbrella Organization. It has Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh Association of Call Center & Outsourcing (BACCO), Cyber Café Association of Bangladesh (CCOAB). CSID has also MoU with private IT organization of My Outsourcing, Creative IT, MetroDesk, etc.
Vocational Skill Development
and Decent Work Placement
The major focus of the program is
to creating an enabling environment for employment of persons with
disabilities. The major activities includes- identifying the job seeker with
disabilities, potential TVET institution, employers, micro-finance institutions
and create database.
The project developed formal partnership and collaboration with Bangladesh Garments Manufacturer and Exporters Association (BGMEA) to employ persons with disabilities signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and also with some Vocational Training Institutions for training. Leading Banks & Microfinance Institutions also have been sensitized to provide credit support to disabled persons for initiating self-employment.
ii) Project Title: Barrier Free Education and employment
for the Persons with visual impaired women
Coverage: 25 visual impaired
women
Funding by: MTB Foundation
Objectives: Inclusion of women with visual
impaired in education and employment
Major Focus:
• Provide
market based training to 25 girls student with disabilities
• Joint
awareness activities with CSID
• Ensure Job for 25 girls student with disabilities
iii) Project Title: Skill
Development and creating employment opportunities using “EMPORIA”
e-learning and Job Portal
Funding by: Funded by: ICT
Division
Major Focus:
• Skill
Development of persons with disabilities using online EMPORIA e-Learning Portal
• Creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through EMPORIA Job Portal
5) Capacity building on disability inclusion in
communication project.
Coverage: All Hearing and
Speech with dishabilles
Funding by: Genweb2 Limited
Objectives: Inclusion of
Bengali language in accessible communication through sign language for the
persons with disabilities
Major Focus:
• Identify
the diverse types of sign language from all over the Bangladesh
• Compile all the sign language and prepare a National Sign Language
6) Protection and GBV
Coverage: 10000 Children with
disabilities and 500 women with disabilities
i.) Inclusive child
protection systems at national and sub-national levels to protect children with
disabilities
Project Location: 35 District
of Bangladesh
Funding by: UNICEF
ii) Protection of children
with disabilities through capacity building and advocacy at different levels.
Project Location: Kamrangir
Char
Funding by: Ignite
Philanthropy
iii) Prevention of
violence against adolescent girls and women with disabilities through capacity
building and awareness raising
Project location: Dhaka
Funding by: Manusher Jonno
Foundation
Broad objective: Adolescent girls
and women with disabilities in the project areas have skills and capacity to
report and prevent all forms of violence against them.
7) Advocacy & Governance
Coverage: Mass People
CSID’s policy advocacy
initiatives with the national government and civil society for an inclusive
environment, and for mainstreaming the persons with disabilities have gained
wide recognition in the development community in Bangladesh and beyond. One of
the most successful initiative was to formation of parliamentary focus on Child
Rights in collaboration with Save the Children. CSID has developed partnership
with different public and private educational institutions.
i. Dialogue Works
Broad objective is: Ensure that
the views and suggestions of working children are heard.
Funded by: Kindernothilfe
ii. ICT training for youth with
disabilities and participation in global competition.
Funded by: ICT Ministry
iii. Kinship Care
Funded by: Family for Every child
iii) Bangladesh association of
employees with disabilities (BAED).
Funded by: CSID
This is the only network of employed persons with disabilities who are working jointly with CSID for ensuring the training and employment rights of persons with disabilities. There are 21 members in General Body and 7 Executive Members in the Executive Committee.
Some success of CSID’s advocacy:
- Organized the ICEVI West Asis Region Conference in
2024.
- The concept of Child Budget has been included in the
national budget.
- Enrolled 7000 children with disabilities in schools.
- Employment support to 4021 youth with disabilities
- Inclusion of Children with Disabilities at UNCRPD (Save the Children & CSID)
- Formulation of Disability Rights & Protection act
and it’s bylaws 2013.
- In Educational Policy 2010 Disability issue has been
included.
- Participation of
the Children with disabilities has been ensured to form the
National Plan of Action on Disability.
- Government has appointed one focal person in each
ministries.
- ICT ministry makes their computer training centre
accessible for the persons with disabilities and providing computer
training without cost.
- CSID worked to adopt Domestic Workers Protection and
welfare policy 2015
- Divisional Child Labour Welfare Council of Dhaka city
is functioning.
- Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) has included a clause in their policy to ensure persons with disabilities into the mainstream training
CSID is involved with the following National &
International networks:
National:
i)
Bangladesh Shishu Odhikar Forum(Bangladesh Child
rights Forum)
ii)
Child Rights Working group of National Human
Rights commission
iii)
Member: National Forum of Organizations Working
with the Disabled (NFOWD)
iv)
Member: Child Rights Governance Assembly (CRGA).
v)
Member: CBR Network.
vi)
Quality and Inclusive Education Forum(QIEF)
International:
•
International Society for the Prevention of
Child Abuse and Neglect(ISPCAN)
•
International Disability Alliance (IDA)
•
Global Partnership for Disability and
Development (GPDD)
•
Asia Pacific Disability Forum (APDF)
•
International Council for Education of People
with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
•
Rehabilitation International (RI)
•
Family for Every Child
•
International Abylimpic Federation(IAF)
