In partnership with Social and Economic Policies Monitor (Al-Marsad), Stars of Hope Society for the Empowerment of Women with Disabilities (SHS), implemented a workshop about women with disabilities inclusion in the Ministry of Health Strategies, on Sunday, 11/8/2024 at the Red-Crescent Society headquarters In Ramallah city.
The workshop was opened by the head of the Woman’s Development and Health Unit in the Ministry of Health (Hadeel Al-Masri), and SHS Chairwoman (Safiya Al-Ali), emphasizing the necessity of promoting persons with disabilities access to high-qualified and comprehensive health services, considering their requirements, and targeting the Ministries vision based on joint action principle, which contributes in including persons with disabilities based on their rights. Furthermore
SHS researcher (Hala Ali), and Al-Marsad founder and investigator (Firas Jaber), provided an analysis of the Health Ministry Strategy between 2021-2023, to find the ways of developing health programs, procedures, and services on a holistic side, which is respondent to the requirements of persons with disabilities. they also focused on the necessity of strategic goals associated with major and minor programs, in which the results have to be achieved, besides targeted categories including women with disabilities. In her part,
SHS Monitoring and Transfer Officer (Amna Badwaneh), represented the context of the National Transfer System with its amendments, and its associations with women with disabilities, to clarify what is needed to be done for National Transfer System complement inside the Ministry of Health, through the integration of adapting evidence, procedures and services among different administrations inside the Ministry.
Some Health Ministry Cadres participated in the workshop and were representatives of different departments inside the Ministry, as well as various interventions, were made on what could be done, by concentrating on physical and non-physical adaptions, training the cadres, developing the documenting and monitoring system to include persons with disabilities rights, including Ministries reports.
At the end of the workshop, they agreed to focus on a set of priorities related to persons with disabilities inclusion in the strategy and the program of the Ministrie’s work, within the Ministrie’s partnership with SHS and Al-Marsad