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Disability mainstreaming - the project ends, the work continues  With June 2008 the project 'Disability Mainstreaming into Development Co-operation', implemented with financial support from the European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs, has come to an end [...]. |
Make Development Inclusive
IDDC (International Disability and Development Consortium) is committed to working towards this end. What is it? Why is disability a development issue? What are the current policy papers for international cooperation? Find out […]. An example? Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - they leave out one in five of the world's poorest people […]. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers need to be Inclusive! (see online manual) […]. |
Events
14 advocacy and training sessions at national level, 3 at regional level, 2 international conferences were set up through the project […]. They allowed us to gather a lot of information and material […]. Other events are critical too: discussion at the Europeans Commissions INFO-POINT on decent work and people with disability, Africa Campaign on Disability and HIV & AIDS […]. |
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Looking for practical tools and guidance for including persons with disabilities in your project ?
Look no further. This on-line manual 'Make Development Inclusive: How to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management guidelines of the EC' could be of assistance to you [...]. |
Inclusive Local Development
A Guidance Paper for an Inclusive Local Development Policy
To break the cycle of poverty and disability in developing countries, community level inclusive policies are a key target. However, making local development inclusive to persons with disabilities is largely under-documented and tools lack. This guidance paper contains three sections, providing background information, e.g. on mainstreaming disability in local development, tools for action at local level and support material. Through a permanent reference to the UN Convention on the Rights Of Persons with Disabilities, it aims at giving some more concrete directions in which to mainstream disability in local development. The paper provides concrete examples from practice, coming from projects implemented in different parts of the world, and a set of methodological tools for making a participatory local assessment, or drawing up a local disability action plan. This paper is available in French and in English. [...]. |
Need more resources?
Online tools:
-> Disability and development reference documents […]. -> Training material on the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities […]. -> Handbook on Inclusive PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers) […]. -> Search this website and others at once ! […]. -> Go to Database […].
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