Employment Insertion Service for People with Disabilities in Ecuador

Implementing Partners: The Ecuadorian National Federation of People with Physical Disabilities (FENEDIF) in coordination with four other disability federations

Implementing Partners: Funding directly to DPOs

Amount: $300,000

This program builds on the successful program established in 2006 that has worked with over 225 private and public companies and organizations to train and establish employment for almost 500 people with disabilities.

Under the new program, FENEDIF, together with Ecuador's four other national federations for people with disabilities, is expanding the already established Employment Insertion Service to four new districts in Ecuador (Manabi, El Oro, Azuay, and Loja) to provide new employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Specifically the program works to

• seek existing formal and occupational training skills programs and, if needed, provide additional training programs
• work directly with companies to provide direct job placement services
• create microenterprices for people with disabilities
• conduct awareness raising and media campaigns to reduce stigmas associated with people with disabilities and employment

Design and Inclusion of People with Disabilities Components in National Disaster Emergency and Contingency Plans

Implementing Partners: Corporacion Gestion Ecuador

DPO Partners: Disability Federations of Ecuador: Ecuadorian National Federation of People with Physical Disabilities (FENEDIF); National Federation for the Blind of Ecuador (FENCE); FENASCEC; National Federation for People with Mental Disabilities (FEPAPDEM); National Federation of Nongovernmental Organizations for People with Disabilities (FENODIS)

Funding Period: July 2008 - January 2010

Amount: $67,220

The Corporacion Gestion Ecuador is working in four high-risk locations—Provinces of Pichincha, Tungurahau, Cotopaxi, and Chimborazo—to develop special components to integrate the needs of people with disabilities into natural disaster emergency and contingency plans.

The program has proceeded by conducting an assessment of the specific needs of people with disabilities in the four high-risk areas, forming a commission to work toward the integration of disability issues into emergency and contingency plans, developing a manual on inclusion in times of disaster and emergency, and then developing an oversight committee with people with disabilities to ensure that disabilities are integrated into existing emergency and disaster plans.

Learn more about programs to assist people with disabilities in Ecuador