ABSTRACT
This chapter examines what public transcripts of disability resistance look like and contrast them with the hidden transcript. An important part of mainstreaming disability was also the empowerment or capacity building of disabled people's organisations (DPO) and disabled people through the organisation of workshops in how to write projects. Disability rights were also becoming part of the charity work of the Evangelical, Pentecostal and Christian churches and spreading their messages. In a post-conflict state, funding was an important reason for DPOs, NGOs and also locals to become involved with programmes, projects and discourses on disability. Activism has put disability on a world agenda and people see the potential to tap into global social movement for their own social needs. However, social activism is not always understood by everyone as empowering and it is also becoming linked to a commodification of disability experiences. Disability mainstreaming in development discourses and debates is something that is politically and economically enforced top-down.
