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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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