Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) inclusive health program has organized a two days Disability Awareness and Inclusion Training (DAIT)for different stakeholders at Shashamane (25 participants)Batu(33 participants) and Adama (28 participants).The main objective of the training was to enhance the awareness of the stakeholders towards the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the mainstream development programs.
In the training, the discussion was held on basic concepts of disability, types, and prevalence of disability, barriers for the inclusion of persons with disabilities and the ways to reduce them, major international and national policy instruments inclusion of persons with disabilities. The training was attended by professionals represented from concerned Town and Woreda Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs, Plan and Economy Bureau, Health bureaus and Associations of Persons with Disabilities.