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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty, disability and access to social welfare in the Peoples Republic of China

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

The overall objective of this project is to describe and analyse the links between disability and poverty as found in poor, rural communities in two regions - Gansu province and Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) - in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). By a pplying a grass-root approach, based on qualitative, ethnographic methods, the project seeks to investigate the dynamics of policy implementation, focusing particularly on how welfare policy measures are experienced by persons living with disabilities in the PRC. The project will focus on access to welfare services, such as health care and rehabilitation, but it will also discuss employment, education, and proper housing in ensuring acceptable living conditions. Our aim is to identify processes leading to hindrance as well as opportunities for social inclusion. By doing so, our aim is to contribute to the identification of poverty reducing mechanism for disabled persons and the households to which they belong. The project is based on already established collaboration with researchers and institutions in the PRC and Norway. The project involves research milieus in Norway, Beijing and Lhasa. It consists of two qualitative projects in Gansu (Prof. Benedicte Ingstad, Dr. Gry Sagli) and one in TAR (Dr. Heidi Fjeld). All projects are anchored at the Section for Medical Anthropology, Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine at the University of Oslo. In the PRC, our main cooperative partners are: China Association of Rehabilitation of Disabled Perso ns (CARDP), an association under the China Disabled Persons Federation (CDPF), the Tibet Disabled Persons Federation (a CDPF branch), Handicap International, Lhasa, Beijing Union University (Special Education College) in Beijing and Tibet University (Medi cal College) in Lhasa.

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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner