The Independent Commission for Human Rights sector are concentrated in the administrative and secretarial field. It was noticed that the public sector employed illiterate women with disability but it didn’t employ women with hearing or mental disability. • The nature of tasks assigned by the three sectors to women with disability included primarily secretarial, professional, sewing, product line and packaging. Inclusion of PWDs in Vocational Training: • The rate of PWDs who have no vocational training is very high. The findings of the study indicated that 79% of the respondents, especially males, have received no vocational training. 81% of them said that they never received vocational training while 23% of women respondents said that they received vocational training. Women with disability were more likely to join training centers. • The main reasons that hindered PWDs from enrolling at training centers were as follows: financial hardships on their families, existence of these centers in areas that are faraway from their residential areas, costs of training and lack of information about the existence of these centers. The respondents answered that they neither benefitted from these centers nor from the programs they provided. • 46% of PWDs who participated in this study believe that the vocational training provided for PWDs help them join the labor market. It enables them to enhance their capacities and acquire new skills and experience. It also contributes to their rehabilitation to join the labor market. • Concerning the contribution of the Vocational Training Centers to enabling PWDs to join the labor market, 49% of the respondents said that the centers don’t contribute. However, 59% of women respondents said that vocational training helps them join the labor market. • Findings from the study indicated that vocational training failed to improve PWDs access to the labor market due to the design of the training program (remedial rehabilitation programs only), the 8

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