Policy To Practice Project

The main thrust of the Policy to Practice (P2P) Project is hinged on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Article 13 (Access to Justice) which encourages State Parties to employ available mechanisms towards ensuring that persons with disabilities enjoy unfettered access to justice on an equal basis with others, prioritizing training of sexual and gender-based violence and justice actors to be able to provide procedural and administrative accommodations towards achieving this. To achieve these, various strategies which include training and sensitization, provision of relevant information and resources as well as strategic advocacy are employed to ensure the justice sector moves from the point of low knowledge and low commitment to high knowledge, high commitment, and high action with regards to disability-inclusive access to justice.

The project identifies improved access to justice for women and girls with disabilities as the long-term change it seeks to attain; and utilizes the following strategies: advocacy, capacity building, awareness creation, innovation, etc.

Some of the milestones achieved so far are women and girls with disabilities now have improved knowledge and capacity to seek justice for rights violations; Organizations of Persons with Disabilities have improved knowledge and capacity to support women and girls with disabilities to get justice for rights violations; SGBV and justice actors have improved knowledge and skills for disability-inclusive service delivery. Information and resources for the provision of disability-inclusive services are available for service providers and other actors, among others.

The P2P project is being implemented with support from the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption
(RoLAC) program of the British Council and funded by the European Union.