A 40-member delegation of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity of Romania held, from 24 to 27 April 2023, a study visit to Cyprus, where they were presented, as a good practice, the Disability Assessment System of the Department of Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Social Welfare.
In the framework of the implementation of a project in Romania for the modernization of the disability assessment system, with the technical support of the World Bank and co-financing from the European Social Fund, Cyprus and the Department of Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities were selected, together with other countries of the European Union, for the study and possible adoption of positive elements from the nine-year operation of the Cypriot disability assessment system. The aim is to support people with disabilities on the basis of the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Visits and presentations were made to the three Disability Assessment Centres in Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca, as well as visits to service centres for people with disabilities, such as the Employment Workshops of the Christos Stelios Ioannou Foundation in Nicosia and the Apostolos Loukas Supported Living Residence in Limassol.
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