Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Dominican Republic (Ratification: 1994)

Implementation of a national policy. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in October 2010, which indicates that among other initiatives the Department of Occupational Guidance of the National Employment Service (SENAE) organized 12 workshops for 233 persons with disabilities in Santo Domingo, in coordination with the Ibero-American Network of Persons with Disabilities. The Government includes a summary of the activities carried out by the Santo Domingo Training Workshop for Young Persons with Disabilities. The Committee refers to its previous comments and asks the Government to provide more detailed information in its next report on the manner in which the national policy on the vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities has been formulated, implemented and reviewed, describing the public policies and private initiatives designed to integrate such persons into the open labour market (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention). Please also provide detailed information on the consultations with the social partners and other interested organizations required by Article 5 of the Convention.

Article 8. Services in rural areas. The Committee requests the Government to include detailed information on the measures taken to promote the establishment and development of vocational rehabilitation and employment services for persons with disabilities in rural areas.

Part V of the report form. The Committee invites the Government in its next report to provide practical and statistical information, disaggregated, as far as possible, by age and gender and taking into account the nature of the disability, along with extracts from reports, studies and enquiries on the subjects covered by the Convention.