Challenge definition| AMUA 2.0
Held on a Tuesday at Buni Hub on the 19th of March, the challenge definition was a complete success.
AMUA 2.0 is the second round of the AMUA accelerator, the major aim is to reach out to youth, innovators, and entrepreneurs and give them a platform and an opportunity to utilize their skills, exposure and creativity to tackle around and solve the challenge on the availability of sexual reproductive health while ultimately focusing on people living with disabilities.
This can equivalently be referred to as: Innovate for disability.
But first, we needed to define the challenges: “What it is that we are looking for?”
And that’s what we did. A collection of different people, in one gathering for the explicit aim of creating precise challenge definitions.
On a quick roundup, here was the observation:
- People living with disabilities are sensitive about not being understood, and not being heard.
- There are numerous policies that support the availability of sexual reproductive health, but there is trouble with the implementation.
- Allowing people living with disabilities to feel engaged is not necessarily based on providing tools but also providing assistance.
During this event, we were forced to define key strategic areas of interventions. These strategic areas were known as challenge definition.
These were the challenge definition statements:
Policies were the area that got a lot of attention. The aspect of how can the people living with disabilities be involved during the establishment of policies that are related to them and Sexual reproductive health. And also, in what ways can the policy environment (availability, awareness, implementation, and accessibility) ensure effective Sexual reproductive health SRH service provision to the people living with disabilities (PWD) was a key policy issue raised.
The issue of guardians and parents of PWD was also zoomed in. In what ways can this group of people get the right information and support from the community was a subject that took form during the intervention.
And finally, the economy was included. PWD are people with a lot of challenges when it comes to building their own stable economy. However, there is probably a way to help them.
Way forward;
The final challenge definitions will be published soon after a team of experts and a few representatives from the PWD community go through the strategic proposed areas of intervention and come up with the official statements that will be used during the project implementation.
AMUA 2.0 is determined to bridge the gap of innovative solutions on Sexual Reproductive health to the people living with disabilities. Click here to learn more about this initiative.
