Policies & Advocacy

NDFSI’s policy and advocacy work aims to promote and support progress towards full implementation of the UN CRPD, through detailed policy analysis and advocacy on critical issues impacting on the rights of disabled people. Our work is informed by NDFSI member concerns, and those of the people with disabilities they work to support. It is anchored in a rights, evidence-based, and community participation perspective. We provide broad policy analysis on disability in Solomon Islands, given the breadth of our membership. We also work in depth on certain key advocacy issues to push for positive change regarding the barriers to inclusion and participation that disabled people experience in Solomon Islands.

Key Policy Inputs;

• Provide policy analysis: Analyse policy developments, and publish policy recommendations, including submissions, briefing and position papers.
• Advocate on disability issues: Advocate for policy change and implementation – to the Government and to Departments, public bodies and policy-makers
• Bring disability to broader rights movement and networks: Provide a disability perspective in various civil society alliances and networks, including being the disability organisation in the Community & Voluntary Pillar.
• Amplify and channel our membership’s policy concerns and provide a feedback loop through our representation and advocacy.
• Raise public awareness of and communicate about disability concerns in media and social media.
• Collaborate and build relationships with others, including disabled people, self-advocates, other disability and civil society organisations.

Our Focus;

• Implementation of UN CRPD
• Poverty and Income/Cost of Disability
• Health 
• Community