Documents to download

This section contains documents and publications relating to disability and development available for download. The documents and publications have been collected around the web and the views expressed in them are not necessarily the views of Leonard Cheshire Disabiliity.

Index

1. Community-based rehabilitation
2. Children and young people
3. Conflict
4. Development
5. Education
6. Emergencies
7. Employment
8. Gender
9. Health
10. Human Rights
11. Inclusive development
12. Management
13. Millenium development goals
14. Poverty
15. Sexuality
16. Statistics
17. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities
18. Other

1. Community-based rehabilitation

• CBR A Strategy for Rehabilitation, Equalization of Opportunities, Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities, WHO (PDF format)
• CBR as we have experienced it: Part 1, WHO (PDF format)
• CBR as we have experienced it: Part 2, WHO (PDF format)
• Disability and Rehabilitation WHO Action Plan 2006 to 2011, WHO (PDF format)
• Equal Opportunities for All: Promoting Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) among Urban Poor Populations, WHO (PDF format)

2. Children and young people

• Young people with a physical disability, Platform Handicap and Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (Phos) (PDF format)
• Children and disability in transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States, UNICEF (PDF format)
• Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities, UNICEF (PDF format)
• A Study on Children and Adolescents with Disabilities in Zimbabwe, UNICEF (PDF format)
• Just like the other kids, World Bank (PDF format)

3. Conflict

• Adaptation of community based rehabilitation in areas of armed conflict, Boyce, William (Word format)
• Community based rehabilitation: a strategy for peace-building, Boyce, Koros, Hodgson (PDF format)
• Disability and war [whole issue], Healthlink Worldwide (PDF format)
• Fatal Footsteps: The Global Human Impact of Cluster Munitions, Handicap International (PDF format)
• Caring for landmine victims, ICRC (PDF format)
• African conflicts and the disability toll, Were, Phitalis (Word format)
• Iraq - Emergency Disabilities Project, World Bank (PDF format)
• Mental health and conflicts: conceptual framework and approaches, World Bank (PDF format)
• Post-election violence and disabled people in Kenya, Pollitt, Laura (Word Format)
• Mental health in emergencies, WHO (PDF format)

4. Development

• Intersectorial and interagencies coordination in mainstreaming disability issues, Asian Development Bank (PDF format)
• Development, cultural values and disability: The example of Afghanistan, Coleridge, P (Word format)
• Disability, poverty and development, DFID (PDF format)
• Guidance note on disability and development for EU delegations and services, European Comission Directorate General (DG) for Development (Word format)
• Situation of disabled people in the enlarged European Union: the European Action Plan 2006-2007, European Commission (PDF format)
• FAO working in support of persons with disabilities, Food and Agriculture Organisation - UN (PDF format)
• Disability and development : a contribution to promoting the interests of persons with disabilities in German development cooperation, Fischer, Anja; Franke, Katja; Rompel, Matthias Eds (PDF format)
• Disability in Development: Experiences in Inclusive Practice, Handicap International (PDF format)
• Understanding community approaches to handicap in development (CAHD), Handicap International (PDF format)
• Inclusive development and the UN Disability Convention, IDDC (PDF format)
• World Disasters Report 2007: focus on discrimination, IFRC (PDF format)
• Facts on disability in the world of work, International Labour Organisation (PDF format)
• Addressing attitudes to disability: a collection of resource materials, Jones (PDF format)
• The inclusion of disability in Norwegian development co-operation : planning and monitoring for the inclusion of disability issues in mainstream development activities, NORAD (Word format)
• Children and adults with disabilities, SIDA (PDF format)
• Access for all: helping to make participatory processes accessible for everyone, Save the Children (PDF format)
• Development outreach 7 (3) : Disability and inclusive development, World Bank (PDF format)
• Disability and social safety nets in developing countries, World Bank (PDF format)
• Making inclusion operational: legal and institutional resources for World Bank staff on the inclusion of disability issues in investment projects, World Bank (PDF format)
• Social analysis and disability: a guidance note: incorporating disability-inclusive development into Bank-supported projects, World Bank (PDF format)
• Programming and evaluation for psychosocial programmes, Ager, Alastair (PDF format)
• The United Nations Development Agenda: Development for All, United Nations, (PDF format)

5. Education

• Article 17 and inclusive education in the new UN Disability Convention, Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (PDF format)
• Schools for all: including disabled children in education, Save the Children (PDF format)
• Inclusive education : where there are few resources, Stubbs, Sue (PDF format)
• Literacy and persons with developmental disabilities: why and how?, UNESCO (PDF format)
• Open file on inclusive education: support materials for managers and administrators, UNESCO (PDF format)
• The Salamanca statement and framework for action on special needs education, UNESCO (PDF format)
• The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion, UNESCO (PDF format)
• Understanding and responding to children's needs in inclusive classrooms: a guide for teachers, UNESCO (PDF format)
• A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education for All, UNICEF (PDF format)
• Education for All: the cost of accessibility, World Bank (PDF format)
• Last in Line, Last in School - how donors are failing children in conflict-affected fragile states, Save the Children (PDF format)

6. Emergencies

• People with disabilities in crisis response, International Labour Organisation (PDF format)
• Call for a disability-adjusted response to the Tsunami disaster, Ter Haar, Aartjan (PDF format)
• Disasters, disability and rehabilitation, WHO (PDF format)
• Tsunami & people with disabilities: Summary issues for consideration, World Bank (PDF format)

7. Employment

• The Right to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities, International Labour Organisation (PDF format)
• Training for Work in the Informal Sector: New evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, International Labour Organisation

8. Gender

• Disabled women: disability awareness in action resource kit, Disability Awareness in Action (PDF format)
• Loud, proud and prosperous: report on the Mobility International USA international symposium of microcredit for women with disabilities, Mobility International USA (PDF format)
• Equity to women with disabilities in India, Rao, Indumathi (PDF format)
• Gender and disability: a survey of InterAction member agencies.
  Findings and recommendations on inclusion of women and men with disabilities in international development programs, Singleton Tina et al (PDF format)
• Applying the capabilities approach in examining disability, poverty and gender, Welch (PDF format)
• A focus on women, WHO (PDF format)

9. Health

• Sexual and Reproductive Health of Persons with Disabilities, UNFPA (PDF format)

10. Human Rights

• Phase 1 report: opportunities, methodologies, and training resources for disability rights monitoring, Disability Rights Promotion International
• Report: disability and human rights workshop, SAFOD (PDF format)
• Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: note by the Secretary General, United Nations (Word format)
• Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on progress in the implementation of the recommendations contained in the study on the human rights of persons with disabilities, United Nations (Word format)

11. Inclusive development

• Moving up the learning curve: inclusive development today (PDF format)

12. Management

• Manual for the planning, organising and implementation of an awareness building campaign (ABC) for disabled persons' organisations, SAFOD (PDF format)
• Guidelines for conducting, monitoring and self-assessment of community based rehabilitation programmes: using evaluation information to improve programmes, WHO (PDF format)

13. Millenium development goals

• Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: the Millennium Development Goals and synergies with other United Nations disability instruments. Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Word format)

14. Poverty

• Perspectives on disability, poverty and technology : a report to Healthlink Worldwide and GIC Ltd, Albert, Bill; McBride, Rob; Seddon, David (PDF format)
• Technical assistance for identifying disability issues related to poverty reduction, Asian Development Bank (PDF format)
• Chronic poverty and disability, Chronic Poverty Research Centre (PDF format)
• Poverty, disability and impairment in the developing world, Durham, Micahel (PDF format)
• Disability and poverty reduction strategies: how to ensure that access of persons with disabilities to decent and productive work is part of the PRSP process, International Labour Organisation (PDF format)
• Fact sheet on poverty and disability, Inclusion International (PDF format)
• Measuring welfare for small but vulnerable groups: poverty and disability in Uganda
• Poverty and disability: a survey of the literature, World Bank (PDF format)

15. Sexuality

• Believe in yourself: Get sexy, Burkitt (PDF format)
• Sexuality education for children and youth with disabilities [whole issue], NICHCY News Digest (PDF format)
• Sexuality and spinal cord injury: heterosexual women, Spinal Injuries Association (PDF format)

16. Statistics

• Data and statistics on disability in developing countries, Eide, Arne H; Loeb, Mitch E (PDF format)
• Disability policies, statistics, and strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review, Inter-American Development Bank (PDF format)
• Living conditions among people with activity limitations in Malawi: a national representative study, Loeb, Mitch E; Eide, Arne H Eds (PDF format)
• Guidelines and statistics for the development of disability statistics, United Nation (PDF format)

17. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities

• Human rights and disability: new and dynamic perspective with the UNC on disability, Lang (PDF format)
• Events to mark international day of disabled persons, 3 December, aim at dispelling myth that those with disabilities cannot work, United Nations (Word format)
• UN Disability Convention in Child-Friendly Text, UNICEF (Word format)
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations (PDF format)
• Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations (Word format)
• Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto. Report of the Secretary-General, United Nations Generaly Assembly (Word format)
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations (PDF format)
• Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: its implementation and relevance for the World Bank, World Bank (PDF format)

18. Other

• State of Disabled People's Rights in Kenya (2007) Report, African Union for the Blind (PDF format)
• Tsunami wreaks mental health havoc, Ashraf, A (Word format)
• "All they felt was shame”- disability in northern Ethiopia, UNICEF (PDF format)
• UNICEF Ethiopia's Disability Programme, UNICEF (PDF format)
• You and me together ability together, UNICEF (PDF format)
• A note on disability issues in the Middle East and North Africa, World Bank (PDF format)
• The Persons With Disabilities Act, 2003, Kenya, (Word format)
• It's time to enforce laws for the disabled, Phitalis Masakhwe Were, Daily Nation, 9/3/2008
• Consideration of a regional framework for action towards an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCAP (PDF format)
• A handbook on mainstreaming disability, VSO (PDF format)
• The UN standard rules on the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities, WHO (PDF format)