Khaberni - The Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issued on Wednesday its achievement report for the month of January this year.
The report reflects the Council's achievements in a variety of fields, most notably the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Republic of Italy to launch a comprehensive national program to develop the inclusive mental health sector in Jordan. The project includes a review of legislation, policies, and national strategy for mental health in the Kingdom, and capacity building for 160 workers in the sector, in addition to improving accessibility through the execution of preparatory work in a number of outpatient mental health clinics at Princess Basma Hospital.
Also, during January, the Council signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Health aimed at improving the quality of services provided to persons with mental disabilities at the Karama Mental Health Center.
During the month, the Council announced the procedures for resuming the work on receiving applications for identification cards in cooperation with the Institute for Family Health, one of the King Hussein Foundation institutes, and the mechanisms for handling applications submitted and conditions for granting priorities for each request. Moreover, the Council canceled several cards after discovering that their owners had attempted fraud to obtain them and referred their files to the judicial authorities.
In preparation for obtaining ESCWA accreditation for the national standards of diagnostic services for persons with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder, the Council completed work on the self-assessment tool and conducted an introductory workshop with the ESCWA team to clarify the procedures for applying to the "Training of Evaluators" program which included reviewing ESCWA standards for the Training of Evaluators program, methods of evidence collection, self-assessment on the standards, and clarification on how to use the site and upload evidence on it.
In the context of starting the execution of commitments submitted within the Third Global Disability Summit 2025, the Council implemented two training programs on the rights-based approach and etiquette for effective communication with persons with disabilities and their access requirements to banking and public services, targeting 150 staff members from the Arab Bank of Jordan and women from the civil society/EIDOS organization.
Further, as part of the Council’s ongoing work to develop an inclusive education system in partnership between the public and private education sectors, to form a certified national training team in applying psychological educational assessment standards, the Council trained 20 participants from inclusive education schools on applying the standards.
With an aim to include persons with disabilities in climate action, the Council participated in providing legal observations on the analysis of the United Nations Development Programme, International Labour Organization, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the report "Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Climate Action".
As part of following up on the implementation of the national plan for alternative care, the Council conducted 12 field visits to care centers, a senior center, juvenile centers, and an orphanage as part of the Medicines Committee team to inspect psychiatric medicines and their dispensation, storage, handling, delivery, and destruction methods, in addition to executing 6 field visits to care centers and the early intervention unit as part of the Licensing Committee team.
Furthermore, the Council’s engineering staff completed 30 sensory inspections and prepared the necessary technical reports to determine the financial cost of the required accommodations in 17 schools as part of the debt swap project in cooperation with (KFW), and 6 archaeological sites in cooperation with the World Bank, in addition to 7 inspections including government buildings, particularly in the provinces, as part of the commitments of the Global Disability Summit.
The Council also continued to accept complaints and inquiries, handling 105 inquiries and complaints.
