[ Autonomisation de la personne en situation de handicap: Résilience et assistance humanitaire ]
Volume 32, Issue 4, May 2021, Pages 494–504
Jean Pierre Kasuku Kahuyege1, Jules Razafiarijaona2, Stefano Etienne Raherimalala3, Bénédicte Romaine Ramananarivo4, Sylvain Ramananarivo5, and Mahefasoa Randrianalijaona6
1 Doctorant, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
2 Professeur, Ecole doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
3 Professeur, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
4 Professeur Titulaire, Ecole doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
5 Professeur Titulaire, Ecole doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
6 Professeur, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
People with disabilities are vulnerable and need humanitarian assistance for their social inclusion. This facilitates their effective empowerment as actors in their own development, interacting with their living environment. In this way, they make use of their spontaneous/natural resilience to take ownership of any process that can strengthen their capacity for action.However, if, on the one hand, they are the hub of the success of the programs carried out in their favor, external contributions, as factors of induced/assisted resilience and reinforcement mentors, are indispensable to stabilize their empowerment. Programs of assistance, with a view to strengthening their capacity for action and choice, are implemented. They continue, unfortunately, to vegetate in dependency and to convey a culture of chronic poverty. Hence a questioning of the kind of humanitarian assistance policy that has been put in place.Through an inductive approach that has combined field data with that of the bibliography, it emerges that humanitarian assistance remains at the level of survival. The results of the various programmes implemented are mixed. People with disabilities evolve in a vicious circle of non-emancipatory and complicit compassionate assistance.To get out of this, a model of meso-centric policy is presented as an alternative, to help rehabilitation actors to set up better adapted support policies.
Author Keywords: Humanitarian Assistance, Resilience, Capacities, Empowerment, Meso-centric, Compassionate.
Volume 32, Issue 4, May 2021, Pages 494–504
Jean Pierre Kasuku Kahuyege1, Jules Razafiarijaona2, Stefano Etienne Raherimalala3, Bénédicte Romaine Ramananarivo4, Sylvain Ramananarivo5, and Mahefasoa Randrianalijaona6
1 Doctorant, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
2 Professeur, Ecole doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
3 Professeur, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
4 Professeur Titulaire, Ecole doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
5 Professeur Titulaire, Ecole doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
6 Professeur, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
People with disabilities are vulnerable and need humanitarian assistance for their social inclusion. This facilitates their effective empowerment as actors in their own development, interacting with their living environment. In this way, they make use of their spontaneous/natural resilience to take ownership of any process that can strengthen their capacity for action.However, if, on the one hand, they are the hub of the success of the programs carried out in their favor, external contributions, as factors of induced/assisted resilience and reinforcement mentors, are indispensable to stabilize their empowerment. Programs of assistance, with a view to strengthening their capacity for action and choice, are implemented. They continue, unfortunately, to vegetate in dependency and to convey a culture of chronic poverty. Hence a questioning of the kind of humanitarian assistance policy that has been put in place.Through an inductive approach that has combined field data with that of the bibliography, it emerges that humanitarian assistance remains at the level of survival. The results of the various programmes implemented are mixed. People with disabilities evolve in a vicious circle of non-emancipatory and complicit compassionate assistance.To get out of this, a model of meso-centric policy is presented as an alternative, to help rehabilitation actors to set up better adapted support policies.
Author Keywords: Humanitarian Assistance, Resilience, Capacities, Empowerment, Meso-centric, Compassionate.
Abstract: (french)
Les personnes avec handicap sont des vulnérables qui ont besoin de l’assistance humanitaire pour leur inclusion sociale. Ce qui facilite leur autonomisation effective en tant qu’actrices de leur épanouissement, interagissant avec leur environnement vital. Pour ainsi, elles font usage de leur résilience spontanée/naturelle, pour s’approprier tout processus de nature à renforcer leurs capacités d’action.Cependant, si d’un côté, elles sont la plaque tournante de la réussite des programmes exécutés en leur faveur, les apports extérieurs, comme facteurs de résilience suscitée/assistée et tuteurs de renforcement, sont indispensables pour stabiliser leur autonomisation. Des programmes d’assistance, en vue du renforcement de leurs capacités d’action et de choix, sont implémentés. Elles continuent, malheureusement, à végéter dans la dépendance et à véhiculer une culture de pauvreté chronique. D’où un questionnement sur le genre de politique d’assistance humanitaire mise en place.A travers une démarche inductive ayant combiné les données de terrain à celles de la référence, il ressort que l’assistance humanitaire reste au niveau de la survie. Les résultats issus de différents programmes implémentés, restent mitigés. Les personnes handicapées évoluent dans un cercle vicieux de l’assistance compassionnelle non émancipatoire et complice.Pour s’en sortir, un modèle de politique méso-centrée, est présenté comme une alternative, pour aider les acteurs de la réadaptation à mettre en place des politiques d’accompagnement mieux adaptées.
Author Keywords: Assistance Humanitaire, Résilience, Capabilités, Autonomisation, méso-centré, compassionnelle.
How to Cite this Article
Jean Pierre Kasuku Kahuyege, Jules Razafiarijaona, Stefano Etienne Raherimalala, Bénédicte Romaine Ramananarivo, Sylvain Ramananarivo, and Mahefasoa Randrianalijaona, “Empowerment of persons with disabilities: Resilience and humanitarian assistance,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 494–504, May 2021.
