BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BUREAU
Osun State Bureau for People with Disabilities was established on 2nd January, 2025 as a result of the passage of the bill into Law. Osun State Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Law, 2024 was enacted by the Osun State House of Assembly and assented to by the Executive Governor of the State, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke on the 10th day of June, 2024. This led to the appointment of an Executive Secretary as the Accounting Officer of the Bureau.
The Agency is to provide for the integration and full inclusion of Persons with Disabilities into the society and ensure the responsibilities for their education, health care, social, economic and civic rights and for other matters related therewith as stipulated in the Law.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BUREAU
To ensure that People with disabilities are fully included and integrated in all spheres such as Education, Health care, political, social, economic, civil rights and other matters related herewith. The Bureau will also ensure that no Person with Disability is discriminated against in any form.
THE VISION
To promote an inclusive society where rights, privileges, aspiration, development and equality of opportunities of persons with disabilities are guaranteed in line with Osun State discrimination law against persons with disability, Act 2018.
THE MISSION
An institution working to promote an inclusive society/ Environment for persons with Disabilities through research, advocacy, engagement, mainstreaming, policy development and enforcement.
OBJECTIVES
- Formulate and implement policies and guidelines as appropriate for the Education and Social development of People with Disabilities.
- To prepare schemes designed to promote social welfare of Persons with disabilities and estimate of cost of implementing such schemes.
- To promote and uplift the general social well-being of Persons with Disabilities by encouraging the public to change their attitude towards them.
- To make available not less than 5% of the workforce to qualified People with Disabilities
- To enlighten the public and encourage people with disabilities
- To collect data and records on education of people living with disabilities, which shall be a regular exercise so that persons with disabilities are identified and enumerated for planning and treatment
- To ensure the monitoring, evaluation and realization of Osun State government policy objectives on people with disabilities
- To facilitate the procurement of scholarship award for people with Disabilities up to university level
- Establish and promote inclusive schools, vocational and rehabilitation centers for the development of people with disabilities
- Liaise with the public and private sectors and other bodies to ensure that the peculiar interest of persons with disabilities are taken into consideration in every government policy program/activity.
- Issue insignia of identification of people with disabilities.
- Also in collaboration with other relevant agencies and professional bodies in the building industry, enforce compliance of public buildings codes and impose necessary sanctions and make appropriate orders.
- Also in collaboration with other relevant agencies and professional bodies in the building industry, enforce compliance of public buildings codes and impose necessary sanctions and make appropriate orders.
- To receive complaints of people with Disabilities on violation of their rights.
- Support individualsâ right to seek redress in court, investigation prosecution or sanctioning in appropriate cases, the violation of the provision of this act.
- To ensure research, development and education on disabilities issues and disabled people.
- To collaborate with the media to make information available is accessible format for people living with disability.
- To procure assistive device for all disability types.
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- osunstate.bpwd@gmail.com
- Osun.Bpwd
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- Finance Building, State Secretariat, Abere, Osogbo, Osun State.
- +234-8100644002
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