Whilst significant progress has been made in recent years with regard to ensuring that development interventions are more inclusive, people with disabilities still remain underrepresented in development programmes and research.
The landmark adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2006 changed how disability is considered within society, as well as within the development sector. But there is still so much to do before all interventions are meaningfully inclusive of people with disabilities.
This issue of the IDS Bulletin presents a collection of articles written by researchers and practitioners involved in the UK aid-funded Disability Inclusive Development (DID) programme. In particular, the articles include a focus on three broad themes: strengthening the evidence base; cross-cutting issues relevant to disability-inclusive development; and the central role of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs).
Drawing together key insights and lessons across the DID programme, the articles explore a range of topics relating to disability and development such as health, education, safeguarding, transport, stigma, the most marginalised groups, the imperative role of OPDs, and disability-inclusive approaches to research and evaluations.
This is the first IDS Bulletin issue in its long history to have an explicit focus on disability.
The editorial team are very proud of this thematic focus, believing that disability must be mainstreamed within development discourse, programming, and research if no one is to be left behind.
We are also pleased to say, this IDS Bulletin is produced in an accessible format that goes beyond the expectations linked to current publishing legislation. This includes an Easy Read version below.
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Articles
Introduction: Building Disability-Inclusive Futures
Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder, Claire Walsh and Gayatri Sekar
Making the IDS Bulletin Accessible to All Readers
Beth Richard
Foreword – Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Daryl Lloyd, Diana Dalton and Anne MacKinnon
Foreword – Sightsavers and International Disability Alliance
Johannes Trimmel, Claire Walsh and José María Viera
Advancing Disability-Inclusive Participatory Research: Lessons, Challenges, and Future Directions
Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder, Josephine Njungi, Oluwatosin Adekeye, Abdur Rakib and Sazzd Kabir
Disability Stigma Reduction: Learnings from Disability-Inclusive Programming
Brigitte Rohwerder, Maria Zuurmond, Cathy Stephen, Josephine Njungi and Elizabeth Ogutu
Lessons on Power and Partnership in Disability-Inclusive Safeguarding
Lisa Morris, Claire Walsh, Amba Salelkar and Jo Dempster
What Works: Learning from Inclusive Education Projects Across Five
Countries
Veronica Stapleton, Jacqui Shepherd, Chris Elliott, Manisha Maharjan,
Dorodi Sharma and Charles Odol
Adapting Development Programmes for People with Disabilities with
High Support Needs
Nick Corby, Sanu Khimbaja and Liz Ewen
What is Required to Support the Implementation of Inclusive Health in
Mainstream Programmes?
Pascale Hall, Johannes Trimmel, Monday Ojonugwa Okwoli and Amina Nasiru
People with Disabilities and Transport Access: Evidence from PENDA
and Inclusive Futures
Mark T. Carew, Narayan Das and Stephen Thompson
Impact Evaluations for Progressing Disability-Inclusive Development
Hannah Kuper, Lena Morgon Banks, Mark T. Carew, Emily Eldred, Georgina Gaskell, Islay Mactaggart, Sarah Marks, Sara Rotenberg, Nathaniel Scherer and Tom Shakespeare
Afterword: Nothing Without Us
Gayatri Sekar and Rejaul Karim Siddiquee
Glossary
Stephen Thompson
Notes on contributors: Building Disability-Inclusive Futures
Stephen Thompson
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