Individualization of disability and disabling environment in Rwanda. A case study in Musanze District (PDF)

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Social Studies (General), , language: English, abstract: This study has the general objective of investigating the current situation of keys barriers that affect the PWDs through their live experiences and challenges. The specifics objectives are: to investigate the current situation of contextual factors that affect PWDs based on day to day activities (their life experiences), residence housing conditions, the causes and types of their disabilities; to describe the socioeconomic characteristic of PWDs by their types of activity and income earned, ages, sex and marital status; to assess the level of Individualization of disability process against disabling environment in Muhoza Sector as well as the relationship between them and to identify the stakeholder, the programs or projects being involved in individualization process for enabling environment to PWDs. During our research, a cross sectional survey by questionnaire and the method of field observation, reports exploitation were used. The study took into consideration of 112 respondents of whom 109 were population with disability and 3 were local leaders in charge with disability (one at District level and two at Cell level of Mpenge and Ruhengeri) who live in Muhoza Sector in Musanze District.

The results of the study indicated that all 112 respondents equal to 100% of the respondents agreed that they have difficult of disability; they face with the various barriers as cited along this study. All concerned respondents said that the appreciation level of individualization of disability against disabling environment takes positive way even if it is at low level. The study concludes that there is a significant role of individualization of disability on enabling adequate environment for PWDs in Rwanda, using Muhoza administrative sector of Musanze District as a case study. Accordingly, all objectives of this study were achieved and all hypotheses were verified and confirmed. At the end of this study, there are different suggestions to the concerned people like Musanze District staff which should prepare the individualized solution toward disabling environment especially Muhoza sector and population with disability should be aware for their rights to better campaign and advocate themselves.