In line with the office of Head of the Civil Service of federation in collaboration with Albino Foundation Baseline Survey of Persons Living with Disabilities in the Federal Service that was launched by Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita (The head of Service) which took place on Monday 3rd December, 2018 marked the 2018 International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The office of Head of Service through the Albino Foundation has trained and deployed 20 persons with disabilities to carry out in 10 working days the pilot stage of the baseline survey of persons with disabilities in the Federal Service in all the MDAs in Abuja. This exercise will commence on 16th May, 2019 and end on 30th of May, 2019. The persons with disabilities were trained and deployed for this assignment to ensure ownership of the process and as well as build their capacity in the area of researching.
The survey is providing data that will give government a better understanding of the challenges that are peculiar to PWDs and fine-tune ways of addressing them as Federal Government is developing a comprehensive policy and implementation guideline geared towards addressing the challenges of Persons Living With Disabilities (PWDs), their welfare and work environment in the Civil Service.
It is expected that the outcome of the baseline survey of Persons Living With Disabilities will help in promoting inclusion in the Federal Civil Services’ policies, practices and procedures that will translate to a positive impact on the welfare of PWDs in the Service. The data from the baseline survey will also help in development of welfare packages for PWDs in Service.