Pilot Assessment of Disability Inclusion in Local Governance in 2022

The pilot study was commissioned by the UNDP in Viet Nam and the Mekong Development Research Institute to supplement the annual PAPI with indicators on the inclusion of Persons with Disability (PwDs) from PwDs’ perspectives in 2022. The study report presentsthe results of a pilot telephone survey of 1,627 PWDs with six different types of disabilities randomly selected from a UNDP’s dataset of more than 19,000 PWDs on the quality of local governance, public service delivery, and the attitude of officials and civil servants when serving and interacting with PwDs. The findings from the quantitative survey as well as the in-depth interviews of the study have provided initial important insights that help inform further research into the matters regarding PwDs’ inclusion in local governance.

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