The Kenya Revenue Authority has been identified as leading in ensuring disability inclusion in all aspects of its operations.
This is contained in the ‘Disability mainstreaming status report for Financial Year 2021/2022’ report.
The latest report by the National Council for Persons with Disabilities shows KRA has made significant progress towards ensuring that persons with disabilities are integrated and included in all aspects of their operations.
The others include Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, NCPWD, Kenya Urban Roads Authority, Konza Technopolis Development Authority and Lake Victoria South Water Works Development Agency.
Insurance Regulatory Authority, Higher Education Loans Board, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and the Kenya Education Management Institute also ranked among the top 10 among the 404 institutions reviewed.
“These institutions had demonstrated a commitment to promoting inclusion and accessibility for persons with disabilities, and their efforts had resulted in measurable improvements in the lives of those they serve,” the report says.
The report warns that despite many institutions undertaking disability mainstreaming training and sensitisation, they are still a long way from fully becoming inclusive.
According to the report, during the evaluation, it was discovered that some of the institutions had not established strategies to meet the legal requirement of employing at least five per cent of persons with disabilities.
“Institutions were presenting pieces of evidence that were not verifiable showing their lack of commitment to inclusion,” the report says.
The report recommends that all government institutions should commit to disability-inclusive planning and budgeting to ensure that resources required to finance mainstreaming in various units are embedded in the units’ budgets.
In Kenya, persons with disabilities account for 2.2 per cent (0.918 million) of the general population according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census.
The disability mainstreaming indicator was introduced into the Performance Contract of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in 2009.
The aim was to accelerate the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the government’s business, workforce, programmes and policies.
