Social Exclusion of People with Disability in Bangladesh: Dimensions and Challenges

Muahammed Muazzam Muazzam Hussain

doi:10.47405/aswj.v6i1.161

Abstract

This paper is an outcome of reviewing different dimensions of social exclusion and challenges faced by people with disabilities (PWD) in Bangladesh and suggest some policy guidelines to promote inclusion of PWD into the development process. This paper is based on secondary sources of data and therefore, government, non-government organization’s study report, policy documents, journal articles, statistical report, research findings etc. were consulted to collect data and construct the paper. The paper describes the social exclusion of Bangladeshi PWD in the six broad areas e.g. income and assets, employment, education, health and social security, social relationship and recreation. Therefore, some key areas of policy implications are outlined for inclusion of PWD in Bangladesh which include the prospective way to address poverty, adopt active labor market policy, promoting social services and encouraging community based rehabilitation, providing counseling and other support services and utilizing the vision of user involvement etc.

Highlights

More than a billion people are living with some sorts of disability and around 190 million people with disability (PWD) experience functional difficulties to maintain their daily activities (WHO, 2018)
This paper investigates the situation of social exclusion of people with disabilities (PWD) in Bangladesh and identify different dimensions and challenges they face there
This paper addressed the question of: “What are the current situation of social exclusion for people with disability in Bangladesh?” The paper used secondary sources of data i.e. published journal articles, policy documents of government, nongovernmental and international organizations on disability issues to address the research questions

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Introduction

More than a billion people are living with some sorts of disability and around 190 million people with disability (PWD) experience functional difficulties to maintain their daily activities (WHO, 2018). In Bangladesh, approximately 9 percent of the country’s total population i.e. more than 15 million people are disabled and nearly half a million people are suffering from multiple disabilities (GED, 2015). In Bangladesh, they experience multiple forms of deprivation e.g. poverty, lower levels of educational attainment, labour market participation and community involvement and falls in a dismal condition characterized by denial of fundamental human rights with isolation and stress. They are often bound to get excluded from adequate resources, income, health care and other basic services

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