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Disability and inclusion

A Ugandan woman sewing clothes.
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Economic independence of people with disabilities

This supplementary evidence review looks at the effects of interventions designed to improve employment prospects for adults with physical or sensory disabilities in low and middle income countries.

Children attend school in Bangladesh.
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Educating for inclusion in Bangladesh

This inclusive project in Bangladesh successfully promoted social and employment inclusion for people with disabilities, and developed new guidelines.

A 45-year-old lady is standing on crutches. She is wearing bright red clothes and a boy is asleep on a bed behind her.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Disrupting the patriarchy through disability rights

Women with disabilities often face double, or rather triple, discrimination: for being disabled, for being women and for being poor.

Munazza Gillani, March 2016
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Violence against women with disabilities

Colleagues at Sightsavers have been working on a series of blogs around gender equity, particularly focusing on women with disabilities in development.

Sightsavers, March 2016
Hazrat with his family.
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‘Inclusive’: Barrier-Free Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities

The objective of the project was to ensure people with disabilities can participate equally in socio-economic activities and community life. 

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Rights during disasters: what about women with disabilities?

I’d like to draw attention to the rights of women during disasters.

Fred Smith, March 2016
A young woman sitting in her wheelchair on a dirt road.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women with disabilities: a call for better representation

Women and girls with disabilities belong to two vulnerable groups, so they potentially face double discrimination.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, March 2016
Close up of hands holding a disability identity card.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

On gender and disability

To mark the 60th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, Sightsavers presents a series of blogs on gender and disability.

Tracy Vaughan-Gough, March 2016
Sylvia sat down, knitting on a machine.
Reports / Disability and inclusion /

iReflect Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion

Findings of a synthesis report to collect knowledge, experience and learning from Sightsavers’ projects with an economic empowerment component.

A woman, smiling, hugs her daughter and best friend.
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Voices of the marginalised: January 2016 update

A community-based participatory project, aiming equitably to involve community members, organisational representatives and external researchers.

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