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Published: - Evidence digest
This resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) outlines the barriers to political participation and leadership experienced by people with disabilities. It presents the latest evidence and guidance on the right to vote, inclusive…
Published: - Evidence digest
This resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) outlines the evidence on the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ+) people with disabilities. It highlights a shortage of evidence and guidance…
Published: - Evidence digest
This resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) is an evidence digest on health and disability inclusion. It contains a guest blog from Alarcos Cieza on disability inclusion in health systems. It looks at the latest evidence and…
Published: - Guidance document
This programme operating framework explains how to overcome key barriers experienced by organisations of people with disabilities. It was developed to help the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office staff working on programme delivery,…
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This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) highlights the key issues around the economic empowerment of women, people with disabilities and other excluded populations. It was undertaken as a piece of rapid…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource looks at the lessons learned on disability and education with the support of the Impact Initiative. It shares what works in education for people with disabilities, looks at how to make education more accessible, and provides…
Published: - Fact sheet 
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) is a factsheet on women and disability inclusion in Future Cities programmes. It highlights the challenge that women and people with disabilities face, including…
Published: - Fact sheet 
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) focuses on women’s economic empowerment and disability inclusion in financial services. It highlights barriers to accessing financial services experienced by women and…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource is part of a series of ‘poverty profiles’ by the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) focused on eight of the most marginalised group-based identities. It responds to the fact that global progress has not benefitted everyone equally,…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource is part of a series of ‘poverty profiles’ by the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) focused on eight of the most marginalised group-based identities. It responds to the fact that global progress has not benefitted everyone equally,…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource is part of a series of ‘poverty profiles’ by the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) focused on eight of the most marginalised group-based identities. It responds to the fact that global progress has not benefitted everyone equally,…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) explains what works to ensure that people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities can enjoy their human rights and participate at all levels of decision-making. It…
Published: - Guidance document, Tools and templates
This resource details the discussions and outcomes from three peer-to-peer round tables run by Inclusive Futures in September 2022, involving project officers from international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and officers from…
Published: - Policy paper, Video, Multimedia
This resource is a call to action to all stakeholders to include people with disabilities in response and recovery phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a 6-minutes long video that shows the key messages from the Global Action on Disability…
Published: - Tools and templates
This resource from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) programme sets out promising practice for improving health systems and health equity. It is aimed at the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO…
Published: - Guidance document
This resource explains the need for disability-inclusive child safeguarding. It builds on consultations with children with disabilities and youth with disabilities, and experience from over 20 organisations. The resource includes information about…
Published: - Tools and templates, Video, Multimedia
This resource is a child-friendly animated video published alongside disability-inclusive child safeguarding guidelines and a toolkit. The aim of this resource is to inform children with disabilities about their right to be and feel safe…
Published: - Fact sheet 
This resource outlines key principles to consider when applying safeguarding measures in humanitarian and development work. It makes specific recommendations around the inclusion of people with disabilities within safeguarding efforts. Also…
Published: - Tools and templates
This resource is designed to be used when working with organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs). It is based on learning from programmes in the international development sector. Organisations of people with disabilities tested this tool.…
Published: - Lessons from a programme
This resource outlines the limited way in which adolescents are included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the data gap in relation to adolescent boys and girls in the SDGs, and how their needs and risks are…
Published: - Guidance document
This is a set of three resources from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) on how to make social protection programmes accessible and effective for people with disabilities. These resources explain why it is important that people with…