Useful links
Below you find a link to useful documents on disability inclusion. Click on the themes below to go straight to the information you need.
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International documents on disability
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol. (2006). Available at:
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Disability Inclusion
- A Handbook on Mainstreaming Disability. (2006). VSO. Available at: View document
- Code of practice on managing disability in the workplace. (2002). ILO. Available at: View document
- Disability Inclusive Development Toolkit. (2015). Kathy Al Ju’beh. CBM. Available at: View document
Project Management
- Make Development Inclusive: How to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management guidelines of the EC. (2009). CBM. Available at: View document
- Inclusion works! Lessons learned on the inclusion of people with disabilities in a food security project for ultra poor women in Bangladesh. (2014).Paulien Bruijn & Judith Mulder-Baart. LIGHT FOR THE WORLD. Available at: View document
Learning Support
- INEE Pocket Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities. (2010). INEE. Available at:: View document
Local Governance
- Inclusive Local Development: how to implement a disability approach at local level. (2009). Eric Plantier-Royon. Handicap International. Available at: Visit our website
Monitoring & Evaluation
- Checklist for inclusion: a manual on including people with disabilities in international development programmes. (2004). USAID. Available at: View document
- Disability Sensitive Indicators for the Education Sector. CBM. Available at: View document
- Disability Sensitive Indicators for the Urban Development Sector. CBM. Available at: View document
- Developing Participatory Rural Appraisal Approaches with Disabled People. (2005). Steve Harknett. DDSP. Available at: Visit our website
Accessibility & Communication
- Accessibility Standards: a practical guide to create a barrier-free physical environment in Uganda. (2010). Uganda National Action on Physical Disability and Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. Available at: View our website
- Inclusion. Creating an Inclusive Environment: A Handbook for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in National and Community Service Programs. (2004) Corporation for National and Community Service. Available at: View our website
- Access for All: helping to make participatory processes accessible for everyone. (2000). Save the Children. Available at: View document
- How to build an accessible environment in developing countries. (2008). Manual #1 – Introduction & Accessibility Standards. Handicap International. Available at: View document
- Accessibility: how to design and promote an environment accessible for all. (2009). Handicap International. Available at: View our website
- Communicating with people with a learning disability. Mencap. Available at: View document
- Conduct an accessibility audit in low and middle income countries. (2014). Nouvellet, Huges. Handicap International. Available at: View document
- Promoting Access to the Built Environment: guidelines. CBM. Available at: View document
