There is great need to expand access to disability services in line with the 18 Pillars on Independent Living. We want to make sure that every disabled person who requires it can get personal assistance, the personal budget, housing, employment support, decision-making support and many more services.
The new EU long-term budget will have approximately EUR 1,98 trillion at its disposal. The resources to finance the services we as disabled people need exist.
In our FURI project we discovered that the has spent EUR 105,54 Million on the construction or renovation of 23 institutions. Recently, we discovered substantial investments in institutions in Spain.
At the same time the European Social Fund Plus is financing the provision of personal assistance in Portugal with EUR 36 million. In 2028 the project could come to an end, thousands of disabled people could be left without personal assistance.
We need to prevent that from happening!
We are demanding an end to the financing of institutions and sheltered employment, so that the massive amounts of resources allocated in these fundamental rights violating and unsustainable services become available for the services that truly work.
For the next EU-Budget we demand:
- Make the implementation of the UN CRPD a core objective
- Increase the earmarking for social inclusion and equal treatment
- Guarantee accountability by involving DPOs in all decisions and establishing performance indicators
The EUFunds4IndependentLiving Coalition
ENIL has prepared amendments to the key regulations that will govern the next 7-year EU-Budget. Our amendments are being distributed to Members of the European Parliament who are going to vote on those laws and national governments and parliaments.
To make an impact, we need to show that we have support.
That is why we are launching the EUFunds4IndependentLiving Coalition. We are inviting organisations from the European, national, regional and local level to join, to endorse our amendments and together with us, produce more.
So far the following organisations have joined the coalition:
- The European Council of Autistic People
- Validity Foundation – Mental Disability Advocacy Centre
- Initiative of Youth with Disabilities of Boka (IYDB)
- European Federation of Hard of Hearing People
- NCPD – The National Council for (the status of)People with Disabilities
- NCPD Autistic (Advocacy) Council in Republic of Ireland
- NCPD Northern Ireland Autistic (Advocacy)Council
You can access the amendments here:
- To the National Regional Partnership Plan Regulation
- To the Budgetary Tracking and Performance Framework
You share our objectives and want to support us? Join today!
Join, by registering here.
The Coalition is open to organisations.
The work of the Coalition is committed to the Independent Living Principles. We are unequivocally against any form of segregation and are unequivocally opposed to institutions of all types and sizes. All services that segregate are to be replaced by services defined in the 18 Pillars of Independent Living.
