General objective: To improve the effectiveness and inclusiveness of empowering and learning paths addressed to persons with disabilities designing and testing an intervention methodology, based on peer-to-peer, participatory and inclusive approach, aimed at measuring the impact of these paths on the Quality of Life of beneficiaries Specific objectives: - To empower the assessment competence of persons with disabilities concerning impacts on their quality of life and social participation generated through empowering and learning paths, innovating existing assessment tools with a participatory approach - To enhance among operators working in the field, through a peer-to-peer approach, competences useful to integrate impact measurement and assessment in their daily activity Objectives were linked to priorities as following: - the project gave voice to people with disabilities providing them with spaces and tools to express themselves (INCLUSION) - impact assessment based on ICF contributed to the quality and effectiveness of learning and empowering paths (QUALITY ASSESSMENT) - the project enhanced among operators a set of competences useful in order to integrate impact measurement in their daily activity (STAFF COMPETENCES)
The reason why we applied for this project is that, despite the progress made in the past decade, persons with disabilities still face considerable barriers in access to healthcare, education, employment, recreation activities, as well as in participation in political life. The project wanted to contribute to the success of interventions in the field of disability and to the development of a new social care system based not only on health of people with disabilities, but also on quality of life and participation. The project aimed to give a response to main needs of partner organizations, their beneficiaries and stakeholders: - To ensure the effectiveness of interventions on the autonomy level of beneficiaries - To directly monitor beneficiaries progress, to facilitate their feedback and to adapt teaching and empowering strategies - To consciously design future empowering and learning paths based on the assessment of previous interventions - To recognize beneficiaries as protagonists in assessing the impact on their Quality of Life of empowering paths that they experience - To enable beneficiaries to use tools for the assessment of their Quality of Life.