The Independent Commission for Human Rights • The coordination mechanisms adopted were as follows: workshops on employment of PWDs; employment agreements (for limited period); preparation of lists and databases of PWDs; field visits; coordination with the General Union of the Palestinian PWDs; implementing joint activities with either the General Union, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Social Affairs or Associations of PWDs. • Employers among the three job sectors set a number of conditions for employing PWDs. Some conditions include the following: ability to fulfill the task, the ability to communicate with the colleagues, competence and ability to move and see. Accommodation and Support Tools for PWDs: • The study indicated that institutions don’t have support tools necessary for assisting persons with seeing and hearing impairments to access work. • Unemployment rate spiked in the Palestinian territory due to increase in the number of university graduates, rising levels of competition in the labor market as well as factors due to the economic and political situation. All these factors negatively affected the employment of PWDs. • Employers maintain that PWDs can hardly perform the task assigned to them due to their disability; in particular those with seeing or hearing impairments. This, they say, requires radical environmental accommodation. • Persons with seeing and hearing impairments seldom have access to work because of the absence of support tools they need at the workplace. Persons with hearing impairment also suffer from other people being unable to understand gesture language. This is one of the major obstacles facing their access to the labor market. • Satisfaction of PWDs employed in the three sectors increased in regard to relationship and communication with colleagues, content with work, accommodation of workplace and the nature of the profession. But, their satisfaction about the work environment in terms of use of technology, assistance tools, financial incentives and distance from the workplace remained low. 6