Participation des personnes en situation de handicap à la gouvernance locale : présentation d’un projet visant à mesurer l’impact des stratégies de développement local inclusif

Abstract

People with disabilities are more often than not overlooked or simply ignored in local development initiatives and their opinions as citizens more or less taken into account. Such discrimination is contrary to human rights and to the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. For some years, Handicap International has been implementing inclusive local development projects to reduce the social isolation of people with disabilities and improve the quality of their social participation by empowering them to exercise their human rights. For its part, the center for interdisciplinary research in rehabilitation and social integration promotes such an approach by implementing inclusive urban development research projects. Recently, the centre international d’études pour le développement local began a collaboration with these two organizations to design and implement a research program aiming at developing methods, assessment tools, and indicators for measuring the impact of inclusive local development strategies on the quality of individual and collective citizenship of persons with disabilities participation in local governance mechanisms. This article will present the state of reflection on inclusive local development, as well as the research project objectives and methodologies being used.