Table 3 Side by side display of prioritized needs from the baseline survey and FGDs
Baseline Survey | Focus Group Discussions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Category | Total N (%) | Themes |
1) Health care needs | |||
Cause of Disability | Congenital | 152 (43,7) | -Access to assistive devices -Little access to qualified and specialized health care -Wish for specialized health care center providing free care for PWD in Bolivia |
Disease | 113 (32,5) | ||
Accident | 45 (12,9) | ||
Other | 19 (5,5) | ||
In need of treatment | a | 275 (79,0) | |
Having access to health system | 302 (86,8) | ||
With knowledge about health-care route | 160 (46,0) | ||
With Knowledge about how to handle their disability | 109 (31,3) | ||
2) Educational needs | |||
No school education | 111 (31,9) | -Limited access to adequate education or trainings | |
Ability to read and calculate | 146 (42,0) | ||
3) Livelihood needs | |||
Not working at the moment | 306 (87,9) | -More financial and social protection -Support in employment sector | |
With desire for work | 145 (41,7) | ||
Housing is not adequate for PWD | 201 (57,8) | ||
Without access to water and/or light | 13 (3,7) | ||
4) Social needs | |||
Vulnerable Group b | 148 (42,5) | -Reduce discrimination -Less institutional arbitrariness -More consideration of caretaker needs | |
With knowledge about rights and duties of PWD | 99 (28,4) | ||
5) Empowerment needs | |||
Having already participated in social inclusion programs | 77 (22,1) | -Need for direction in life -Desire for self-help | |
Aggravated needs due to COVID-19 | |||
-Loss of employment and small entrepreneurships -Deterioration of health care access -Death and illness of project staff and participants | |||
Example Verbatim—FGD, Plan 3000: “The government passed a law so that people with disabilities don`t pay anything on public transportation buses. But that`s a lie! Nobody complies with it! They don't enforce it.“ | |||