In Morocco, a digital platform for people with disabilities

Monday 30th September 2024 07:21 PM

The Minister of Solidarity, Social Inclusion and Family, Aawatif Hayar. Credit: MAP

The Digital Platform for a better future for people with disabilities in Morocco, a pioneering initiative aimed at strengthening digital accessibility for people with disabilities, was launched on Monday in Rabat.

This platform, whose launching ceremony was chaired by the Minister of Solidarity, Social Inclusion and Family, Awatif Hayar, aims to strengthen the autonomy of people with disabilities by making them information and support to this segment of society more accessible.

Designed by the White Colombe Association for the rights of people with disabilities in Morocco with the support of its Swiss partner Enable Me and the Moroccan network Mamar, this initiative also aims to facilitate access for people with disabilities to various services, improve their social participation and bring services closer to target groups.

This platform, which collects information and provides it to people with disabilities, their families, as well as private and public organizations and institutions, will also foster community interaction and dialogue on disability-related issues, as well as Peer learning between people with disabilities, particularly young people, by sharing their experiences and good practices.

“This platform aims, firstly, to simplify administrative procedures and take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital technology in order to facilitate access for disabled people to different services, and to improve their participation in social and economic activities,” underlined Hayar on this occasion.

In a statement to the press, the minister noted that her department works to strengthen the capacities of associations operating in the field of disability and to support their initiatives, explaining that this platform is in addition to other digital platforms launched by the ministry, in particular the digital platform to receive requests for obtaining “the disabled person card”the Khadamaty platform and the Rafik platform for training families in supporting autistic children.

For his part, the president of the White Dove Association for the rights of people with disabilities in Morocco, Mohamed Ajoub, underlined, in a similar statement, that the Digital Platform for a better future for people with disabilities in Morocco is the result of a participatory approach with several public institutions, international donors and civil society organizations working in the field of disability.

And to add that this platform aims to strengthen digital accessibility for disabled people able to consolidate their social integration.

On the sidelines of the launch ceremony of this platform, a framework partnership agreement was signed between the Ministry of Solidarity, Social Inclusion and the Family and the White Colombe Association for the rights of people with disabilities in Morocco to mobilize the various stakeholders concerned with a view to perpetuating the objectives of this platform.