Issue Identification Workshop on Access to Justice For Girls and Women with Disabilities_Madhesh Province

9^th July 2023

Madhesh Province

Access Planet Organization in support of Leading from the South (LFS)- Women’s Fund Asia (WFA) organized an event on- “Issue Identification Workshop on Access to Justice For Girls and Women with Disabilities”.

The half-day workshop was conducted to help the participants identify the issues of girls and women with disabilities in the community regarding their access to justice. The girls and women with disabilities along with representatives of organizations of persons with disabilities OPDs and women’s rights organizations participated in the workshop.

Objectives:-

The main objectives of the workshop are as follows:

• Identify the issues related to access to justice for girls and women with disabilities in the community.
• Expand the programs and activities of Access Planet by establishing formal or informal networks of the organization in different provinces.
• Prepare an advocacy manifesto to be submitted to local government and the stakeholders.

In this issue identification program, participants were made to identify as many problems and obstacles in access to justice for girls and women with disabilities. Later all those problems from the participants were clustered together thematically and afterwards in collaboration with the participants, root causes, viable solutions and major stakeholders in order to resolve the problems were identified.

Outputs:-

The primary outputs of the training are listed in points as follows:

• Various issues in regard to access to justice for girls and women with disabilities at the local level were identified.
• Sensitization on the discussed issues, problems, solutions, and ways forward among the participants.
• Strengthened relationships with women with disabilities, OPDs, and women’s rights organizations in the madhesh province.