Challenges Facing Disabled Civil Servants In The Public Civil Service In Tanzania: A Case Of Public Higher Learning Institutions In Dodoma Municipality

ABSTRACT

Tanzania as a member of Common Wealth and signatory of different campaign for

people with disabilities and their rights to employment, embarked on various

initiatives aiming at realizing the envisaged goals that are contained in the United

Nations declaration on the rights of people with disabilities (1975) where

employment to people with disabilities was one of the main agenda. Providing

strategies and all efforts for realising employment to people with disabilities, yet

their working environment is not taken into concern, therefore, the purpose of this

study is to examine the challenges that people with disabilities are facing in public

civil services in Tanzania, taking public higher learning institutions as the case.

In examining the challenges, there a number of mechanisms used in realising the

employment issues to people with disabilities, whereby the impact of those

mechanisms culminating to either solution to disabled problems or creation of more

challenges. The study used the Professional Theory, the Social Model of Disability

and the Needs Theory on making the association of the personal qualifications and

limitations on fulfilling their needs due to the disabling environment caused by

impairments. The study used cross-sectional survey on data collection through which

interviews, questioners and documentary reviews were used. A total number of 80

respondents were selected and data collected were analysed both qualitatively and

quantitatively.

The study unveils that present laws should be reinforced in order to realize the basic

need for disabled employment, because when the working environment is secured

resulted into improvement of disabled performances, meanwhile the obstacles to

disabled employments and working environment limits their functioning which

resulted to challenges on realization of disabled inclusion..