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According to the World Health Organization, people with disabilities face numerous barriers in accessing services. These barriers are generated by inadequate legislation, policies and strategies; lack of service provision; problems with the provision of services; lack of awareness and understanding of disability; negative attitudes and discrimination; lack of accessibility; inadequate financing; lack of participation in decisions that directly affect their lives, etc. There are specific barriers regarding the expression of opinions by people with disabilities. (WHO global disability action plan 2014–2021)
The project addresses a number of these needs by providing wheelchair users with appropriate services, available locally and supporting them in self-advocacy in relation to public authorities. The project activities will include mobility and health services provision to wheelchair users using new, locally unavailable equipment, training beneficiaries on advocacy and supporting them in carrying out various actions to promote their skills and of advocacy, as well as the improvement of the MotiActiv and Panoul de Bord mobile applications with advocacy functions on disability issues.
The direct beneficiaries of the project are wheelchair users from Romania will benefit from the mobility and health services in 15 locations in Romania, also receiving training on advocacy and support to carry out advocacy actions.
The applicant has over 25 years'' expertise in providing services for wheelchair users through a number of appropriate means, including the MotiActiv application. The partner has since 2017 the application Panoul de Bord, that allows citizens to send notifications with legal value to the authorities, and which will also include functions that will allow people to notify disability issues, through this project.