Subordinate Agencies and the Guidelines for Reviews of Laws Reported by the
Various Subordinate Agencies of Executive Yuan. The government should
implement mechanisms and procedures to assess the impact on the rights of
persons with disabilities before important national medium- and long-term
projects and laws are brought to review by the Executive Yuan. It should ensure
that when stipulating and implementing important national projects and laws, the
various agencies are all able to implement the idea of equality for persons with
disabilities into the process of developing and carrying out measures, while also
adhering to the General Principles set out in Article 3 of the CRPD.
17.
Upon reviewing the CRPD Second Report and its statistical data, the NHRC found
that the relevant central competent authorities have only presented general data
regarding the implementation of each provision of the CRPD and its performance.
However, they have made no mention whatsoever of issues related to the
inequitable distribution of resources and implementation between different
counties and cities. They were unable to put scheduled plans into place and lacked
specific supervision and improvements. Some support services for persons with
disabilities that fall under the authority of counties and cities have long lagged far
behind the national average. After inquiring the central competent authorities, the
reasons given for this situation mostly involve the financial difficulties of local
governments. The NHRC is of the opinion that the current system is ineffective:
the central authorities set the standards while local governments are charged with
meeting these standards, with the budget for doing so split between the central and
local governments and the central authorities imposing welfare service
performance evaluations on local governments. Many of the rights and interests of
persons with disabilities are not guaranteed due to their household registration or
current place of residence. Thus, the NHRC recommends that the government take
concrete measures and set out a schedule of objectives to improve the discrepancy
in resource allocation between counties and cities.
18. The NHRC regards that schools and government agencies at all levels have failed
to effectively raise the disability awareness of their employees. There is no system
in place for evaluating the actual effects and results of training materials and
awareness-raising sessions. Instead, the focus is only on quantitative data such as
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