Life Project, Peer Counselling and Self-help Groups as Tools to Expand Capabilities, Agency and Human Rights

The aim of this article is to present the life project as a relevant and comprehensive tool towards expanding capabilities, agency and enforcing human rights for persons with disabilities. The first part analyses the theoretical elements common to the frameworks of the capability approach and the human rights perspectives, which are omnipresent at the implementation level in tools such as the life project, peer counselling and self-help groups. In the second part of the article, the relevance and the limits of the life project, peer counselling and self-help groups are examined.