Over a series of initiatives NSI has developed a database application to supporting systematic analysis of law and policy regimes and how they structure possibilities for achieving equality, human rights, and inclusion for marginalized communities. To date, NSI has used PRIAA in analysing legal capacity (right to decide) policy regimes in Canada and Ukraine, accessible travel through federally regulated transportation, and interpretive supports for people with significant developmental, cognitive, and mental health disabilities.
Priority Area: Reimagining Policy
Accommodating People with Disabilities in Exercising their Right to Decide – guide, 2023
This is a planning guide to assist people with disabilities, and their supporters, in thinking about how best to support and accommodate a person in making decisions. The purpose is to assist people to direct their own lives, choose what is best for them, and have others respect their choices. In other words, to enjoy and exercise the right to make decisions on an equal basis with others.
Primer on Disability and Public Policy – report, 2023
This primer looks at what public policy is, how it is made, how it impacts people with disabilities, and how disability communities can engage in the policy making process. As more and more of the current generation of disability communities’ leaders and senior policy makers in disability policy step back and make way for a new generation – we hope this resource and various specific “Primers” on disability policy we are publishing will support proactive public policy engagement.
Primer on Disability Income – report, 2023 December 7, 2023 lchurchill
Focused on the income security system in Canada, this policy primer sets out the elements of the current disability income system, the core principles that should guide reform, and the challenges linked to eligibility, policy coherence, adequacy and disincentives. It explains key concepts and provides the policy language that we hope will enable informed conversation and participation in the public discussions on the disability income system now under way.