Government of Papua New Guinea; Department for Community Development and Religion, Government of Papua New Guinea Country Resources Disability Policies Papua New Guinea 1 January 2015 Policy document

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The National Policy on Disability (NPD) 2015 – 2025 is the national strategic plan for the disability sector. The policy vision: “Remove Barriers, Make Rights Real” focuses Papua New Guinea (PNG) on addressing the overarching challenge where many people view Persons With Disabilities as needing to overcome obstacles on their own, without realising the need for society as a whole to also actively break down barriers to improve participation and enable equal rights for Persons With Disabilities. For example, it is the right of a person in a wheelchair to work but if the job they qualify for is upstairs and there is no ramp or elevator, they cannot enjoy that right due to a physical barrier. NPD draws this focus from the Equal rights for all sentiment of our National Constitution.

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