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Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. National policy on vocational rehabilitation. The Committee notes the report received in September 2009 which indicates that for the National Council for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities (CONADIS), increasing the levels of employment of persons with disabilities and their access to decent work is a major goal and a priority. According to the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), the extent to which persons with disabilities have been integrated into the labour market is not known exactly. The Committee notes the adoption of Act No. 29392 of August 2009 defining offences and establishing penalties for breach of the General Act on Persons with Disabilities. In December 2008, CONADIS and the Ministry for Women and Social Development approved an Equal Opportunities Plan for Persons with Disabilities 2009–18. According to the data sent with the report, the RED Cil Proempleo programme succeeded in placing a total of 85 persons with disabilities in jobs during the period 2007–09, and 50 “enterprises for the advancement of persons with disabilities” were created in the period from 2007 to April 2009. The Government states that there is no sign of the results awaited from the development of policies to include persons with disabilities in production. The Committee again asks the Government in its next report to include an evaluation of the results obtained in the context of the Plan for Persons with Disabilities 2009–18 in both the public sector and the private sector in terms of integrating persons with disabilities into the open labour market. The Committee invites the Government to send further information on the application in practice of the penalties established in Act No. 29392 along with other data allowing an evaluation of the employment created for persons with disabilities by the “enterprises for the advancement of persons with disabilities” and as a result of incentives offered for hiring persons with disabilities. The Committee again asks the Government to provide extracts from studies or other assessments of vocational rehabilitation and employment policies and programmes for persons with disabilities, together with up-to-date statistics on the number of participants, the number of placements, public expenditure and other data showing the results of the legislative and policy measures adopted for persons with disabilities (Part V of the report form).

Services in rural areas and remote communities. The Committee notes that the services of the National Institute for Rehabilitation do not extend to rural areas but that these areas are covered by a community-based vocational rehabilitation project. The Committee asks the Government in its next report to provide information on the measures planned to establish and develop vocational rehabilitation and employment services for persons with disabilities in rural areas and remote communities (Article 8), and on the training of suitably qualified staff responsible for the vocational guidance, vocational training, placement and employment of persons with disabilities (Article 9).