Situational Analysis of Manual Wheelchair Provision: Nepal

The Enabling Friday Community (EFC) Nepal has proposed a vision for change based on 4 working sessions over the past few months - Enabling Fridays Vision.

While we want to focus on building sustainable assistive technology innovation and systems, we as a group recognised the obvious need for specific data to inform the work. Collaboratively we have agreed that a situational analysis and action plan for sustainable manual wheelchair provision should be prioritised to develop a working methodology and service system template.

Our wider plan on locally-centred action on Manual Wheelchair Provision 

1. Local collaborative direction-setting group development 

Enabling Friday Vision 

2. Situational Analysis focused on a subset of AT (Manual Wheelchairs) and targeted rich data collection 

• Population/regional level investigation
• Individual level journey mapping (of people and products)
• Local Innovation Pathway Identification 

3. Upcoming Actions based on No.1 & 2 

• Local Innovation across product-service elements
• Advocacy
• Global peer linked work (educational across stakeholders, live labs, innovation coaching) 

4. Expansion and iteration of local collaborative process across other AT sectors