Disability & Development:

"The Disability Dimension in Development Action: A Manual on Inclusive Planning"
The framework found in this publication has been prepared in general terms to allow for universal applicability in checking documents resulting from any of the stages of the development planning process. Out of this publication came The Rapid Handicap Analysis version 3 (RHA3). A 10-point checklist that is intended to facilitate the rapid assessment of development programs and projects for the adequate inclusion of the disability dimension in the plans. STAKES, National Research and Development Centre developed this tool for Welfare and Health, Principal Author: Ronald Wiman.

For more information or to view it online, please see the web page
Web: http://www.stakes.fi/sfa/rhachecklist.htm

Disability.DK
De Samvirkende Invalideorganisationer (DSI)
Kløverprisvej 10 B
DK-2650 Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 3675 1777
Fax: +45 3675 1403
E-mail: jl@handicap.dk
Web: http://www.disability.dk/site/documents.php?section_id=1

Disability.DK contains information on disability in developing countries to support NGOs, governments and others working in the field. The site is built as a dynamic library where the newest documents and information are added.

"Disability, Liberation, and Development"
"Disability, Liberation, and Development" is a study of disability in Zimbabwe, Zanzibar, India, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Occupied Territories. It takes the reader on an inside trip via interviews with disabled people in the developing countries named. The people interviewed are from the villages, leaders of the disability movement in each country, and disabled people running their own organizations. By Peter Coleridge of Oxfam.

For more information or to order this resource, please see the web page
Web: http://styluspub.com/books/book1896.html

Disability, Poverty and Development
Disability, Poverty and Development is an assessment of the significance of disability as a key development issue and its importance in relation to poverty, human rights, and the achievement of internationally agreed development targets. It also sets out ways in which development co-operation can help incorporate the rights and needs of people with disabilities into the mainstream of poverty reduction work and the achievement of human rights.

For more information, to order this resource for free, or to view it online, please see the website of the Department for International Development (DFID), a British government department responsible for promoting development and reduction of poverty
Web: http://lists.partners-intl.net/pipermail/women-east-west/2000-April/000067.html

"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"
In low-income countries, persons with disabilities belong to the poorest of the poor. The PRSP process, therefore, could be expected to be a unique opportunity to reduce poverty of this part of the population of low-income countries; especially as the PRSP approach is increasingly being embraced by the countries' other external development partners. Persons with disabilities have again been either "forgotten" or treated in a way that does not correspond to their aspirations to socio-economic integration. Up to now, persons with disabilities have not been involved in an opportunity to be included in the most important poverty reduction initiative of recent years. To read more about PRSP's and the involvement of people with disabilities in these strategies, please see the website.
Web: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/disability/download/discpaper.pdf

Employers' Forum on Disability
Nutmeg House
60 Gainsford Street
London, SE1 2NY
Tel: 020 7403 3020
Fax: 020 7403 0404
E-mail: website.enquiries@employers-forum.co.uk
Web: http://www.employers-forum.co.uk/www/guests/publications/index.htm

The Forum offers a range of publications to help and inform employers, human resources departments and service providers. Their publications advance the culture of best practice and offer practical help as well as aim to make it easier for employers to recruit, retain and develop disabled employees and to serve customers with disabilities. The Forum has customized a booklet, "Unlocking Potential", for The International Labour Organization, which includes international statistics.

GLADNET
Contact: Val Lawton, Operations Manager
Box 66043
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada, T2N 4T7
Tel: (403) 228-2227
Fax: (403) 228-2207
E-mail: info@gladnet.org
Web: http://gladnet.org

The GLADNET Association (Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network) was established in 1997. It is affiliated with the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the UK Disability and Work Programme.

The objective of the Association is to promote disability policy and program reform with emphasis on integrated training and employment options for working age disabled persons These objectives are achieved through collaborative applied research projects, and by the global exchange of information via the Internet.

Healthlink Worldwide
Cityside, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE, UK
Tel: (44) 20 7539 1570
Fax: (44) 20 7539 1580
Email: info@healthlink.org.uk
Web: www.healthlink.org.uk

Healthlink Worldwide works in partnership with organisations in developing countries to improve the health and well being of poor and vulnerable communities. We do this by strengthening the provision, use and impact of information. Healthlink Worldwide's books and booklets and back issues of the international newsletters are available free as electronic copies, and free or at low cost for printed copies. Regional newsletters are available from our partner organizations.

HealthWrights
P.O. Box 1344
Palo Alto, CA 94302
Tel: (650) 325-7500
Fax: (650) 325-1080
E-mail: healthwrights@igc.org
Web: http://www.healthwrights.org/publications.htm

HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. HealthWrights develops and distributes educational materials on health and human rights, presented clearly and simply so that people at all educational levels can understand them.

A clear example of their publications is the book Disabled Village Children. This book is a guide for community health workers rehabilitation workers, and families. With more than 4,000 line drawings and 200 photos, this is an exciting book of information and ideas for all who are concerned about the well being of disabled children. For more information, to view this book for free online or to order the book, please see the web page.

"How Disabled People are Involved in the Development Process"
People with disabilities are becoming involved in the development process in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The self-help philosophy, which disabled peoples' groups have used in their own organizations, is now being carried over to their method of doing development. Most important to these groups is the building of self-esteem, confidence and skills for use among their own membership. It is in essence a process of empowerment that is very necessary if disabled people are to participate in the process of change.

To read more about this article published by Mennonite Central Committee, please see the web page: http://www.mcc.org/respub/occasional/93.html

Innovations in Developing Countries for People with Disabilities
This is a unique resource book for anyone working in community-based services. Experienced practitioners drawn from various disciplines and across the continents have written the seventeen chapters. The chapters cover issues as diverse as family involvement, mobilizing communities; fund-raising and evaluating services. The book has been widely used in training courses around the world. The publishers, Lisieux Hall Publications, By O'Toole, Brian, and Roy McConkey, Eds

For more information, please see the web page: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/uhs/DRL/detailview.cfm?ItemNumber=408990.0

International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC)
Contact IDDC Coordinator: Sue Stubbs
E-mail: co-ordinator@iddc.org.uk
c/o Handicap International
5 Station Hill
Farnham
Surrey, GU9 8AA UK
Tel: (44) (0) 1252 821 429
Fax: (44) (0) 1252 821 428
E-mail: administrator@iddc.org.uk
Web: http://www.iddc.org.uk/latest/latest.shtml

IDDC has reports on disability and development work entitled Latest News on Disability and Development. IDDC is a self-managing group currently consisting of 16 international non-government organisations supporting disability and development work in over 100 countries globally. IDDC's aim is to more effectively and efficiently promote the rights of disabled people through collaboration and sharing of information and expertise. To achieve this aim, IDDC believes development policy and practice should be inclusive.

Save the Children
Radda Barnen (Save the Children, Sweden)
SE -107 88 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: (46) 8 698 90 20
Fax: (46) 8 698 90 25
E-mail: info@rb.se
Web: http://www.rb.se/engindex.htm

Public Enquiry Team
Save the Children
17 Grove Lane
London
SE5 8RD
UK
Tel: (44) 020 7703 5400
Fax: (44) 020 7703 2278
E-mail: dialogue@scfuk.org.uk
Web: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/development/

Here you will find the latest publications, research and policy on child rights and development. For example, look in Global Publications for what's new in the latest education practice guidelines entitled Schools for All. These guidelines are aimed at developing inclusive education practices, and in particular the inclusion of disabled children in education. For further information contact the Development Dialogue Team at the email address listed above.

Sustainable Development and Persons with Disabilities: The Process of Self-Empowerment
Disability is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. Eliminating world poverty is unlikely to be achieved unless the rights and needs of people with disabilities are taken into account.

For more information or to order this book online, please see web page http://www.mylitsearch.org/mbrx/PT/99/MBR/10042095
By Tandon, Yash, 1995, publisher: African Development Foundation (Washington, DC 1400 Eye St., NW, Washington 20005)

UN Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
The Standard Rules were developed from experience gained during the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons (1983-1992) and, whilst they are not a legally binding instrument, they represent 'a strong moral and political commitment of Governments to take action to attain equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities.' The Standard Rules contain 22 rules, divided into four chapters. 'The purpose of the Rules is to ensure that all people as members of their societies, may exercise the same rights and obligations as others. To read more about the Rules, please see the website.
Web: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/dissre00.htm