362. Sign language competency training is also given to persons from different governmental and civil society organizations. Children with hearing impairments are also trained on sign language for better communication. Sign language has also been introduced on the Eritrean television currently running twice a week to enable persons with hearing problems get timely information. The MoLHW, in cooperation with National Association for the Deaf, has published the first Sign Language Dictionary and already 5,000 copies were printed and disseminated throughout the country the sign language dictionary is already translated into Arabic and English from the Tigrigna version. The association also plays an important role in advocating for the deaf during court hearing and in helping the court and the deaf to communicate better with the help of an interpreter. Efforts have also been made to improve the deaf-doctor communication in hospitals, especially for pregnant deaf mothers. 363. The Eritrean National Association for the Blind (ERNAB) has 3000 members. It has 15 board members (3 are women) in the leadership. ERNAB is also advocating and lobbying for persons with vision impairment. It is campaigning to strengthen awareness among the general public about preventing blindness and the role of community in preventing blindness and rehabilitating people with vision impairment. Income generating schemes improve their livelihoods through business and agricultural related activities. The biannual bulletin of the association, „Self Reliance‟ is prepared in Braille for use by its members. 364. The Eritrean National Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disability is a recently formed association that focuses on children with problems of intellectual and development disability and has 935 members. The association has its own annual magazine called „CARE‟. It is also undertaking awareness campaigns through seminars to families who have children with these difficulties and sensitizes the public at large through the media to send them to school. The association has relations with NGOs like ARCHIMED (Germany) and Sacra Famiglia (Italy) and organized joint trainings during 2014 -2016. 365. In general, the favorable government policy, commitment and action, the conducive social environment created, the constructive role of families and communities and the general support of the public to PWDs and the readiness of PWDs to be self-reliant are the main factors that need to be preserved to improve the wellbeing of PWDs. Challenges still remain in availing residential houses for very critical PWDs, environmental barriers, limited orthopedic appliances and limited appropriate vocational training and limited funding to undertake assessments to update the data and situation of PWDs at national level. H. People’s Right to Satisfactory Environment (i) Institutional and legal measures 366. By virtue of its geographical location, extreme weather situation and also because of its limited adaptive capacities, Eritrea is one of the vulnerable countries affected by adverse climate. Hence, adaptation measures to mitigate environmental degradation and in particular Page 94 of 100