Towards an Inclusive Strategy to Enhance the Accessibility of People with Physical Disabilities to the Palestinian Labor Market” رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

“This paper looks at the barriers to employment facing people with disabilities (PwDs), mainly with physical impairments, in the West Bank. It aims at revealing the relationship between high unemployment rates and disability and how this relation is perceived by the PwDs themselves. It also links the unemployment rates among PwDs, with other factors, to clarify whether or not these factors affect the access of PwDs to the labor market. Depending on the data and analysis, this detailed work comes to an end with some major observations; mainly the absence of active national strategies, as the official referent bodies do not have any future outlooks or statistical studies on the current situation of PwDs and how to improve it; the spread of the charitable approach rather than the rights-based approach by PwDs themselves, while the level of accessibility implementation is focused on the mobility adaptation only. On the other hand, this research presents some recommendations as well as strategic goals and objectives that aim at enhancing and fostering the access of PwDs to the labor market. KEY