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A group of representatives from disabled people's organisations hold up signs saying 'Make it count'.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

Sightsavers works with partners in over 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support the empowerment of people with disabilities.

Art student painting the Inclusive Eye Health mural in Bhopal.

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Art students in Bhopal painted striking murals along the wall of a hospital to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Andrea Pregel, December 2016

Women smiling at camera, holding plate with omelette

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

An evaluation of the EU-funded Connecting the Dots project run by Sightsavers in Uganda completed in August 2016.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

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.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

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.

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

Munazza Gillani, March 2016

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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

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

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 /

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.

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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.

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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

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

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.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

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

Bhanvari, who is blind, weaves in her home in the Bikaner district of India.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

This framework document clarifies what disability inclusion means for Sightsavers and sets out how we can achieve it.

Children stand outside their school in Bangladesh.

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A Sightsavers report identifying the causes of vulnerability to disasters for people with disabilities in Satkhira, Bangladesh.

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The achievements from the first four years of the “Strengthening Sightsavers reach and impact in West Africa” 2012-2015 programme supported by Irish Aid.

People in Bhopal, India attend a busy eye screening meeting.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers project identifying a number of barriers that can prevent people from engaging with providing and collecting data on disability.

Manju, an Indian woman with a disability, sits and thinks.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers exhibition booklet by photographer Graeme Robertson focusing on stories of empowered lives and the impact of exclusion.

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World governments will meet at the United Nations General Assembly this weekend, and a key item on their agenda is the Sustainable Development Goals.

September 2015

An illuminated sign that reads 'End inequality' is held up amid the darkness at the Light the Way event in London.

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This September, world leaders are meeting in New York at the UN General Assembly to set global goals for the next 15 years.

Sightsavers, September 2015

An older woman stands alone in Bangladesh.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A report summary exploring what persons with disabilities and older people understand as the causes of their social, economic and political exclusion.

A smiling mother with a visual impairment hugs her young son.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A Sightsavers project to bring the perspectives of those who live in poverty or who are highly marginalised into post-2015 policy making.

Three smiling women take a break from their packaging business.

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The Bangla version of a report drawing on the real-life stories of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh, as told to researchers.

News / Disability and inclusion /

Sunday 8 March marks International Women’s Day, but there’s not much to celebrate if you’re a woman living with a disability in a developing country.

March 2015

A teacher writing on a blackboard in front of a group of children.

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Children with disabilities, children in conflict areas and girls are the most likely to miss out on going to school, according to a new campaign.

March 2015

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Radio was chosen to educate teachers, children and local communities as it is more readily accessible, reaching even remote, rural areas.

Guest Blogger, January 2015

Roshani at a school eye screening in India.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Our experience clearly tells us that blind people largely exist in the fringes of our community. Being blind is not the problem, it is the understanding.

Guest Blogger, January 2015

The paper registers used to collect data on disability.

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

A report on the initial steps undertaken to include disaggregation of data by disability in two projects in Tanzania and India.

News / Disability and inclusion /

Paralympic Kelly Gallagher and Gaz Coombes from Supergrass have been photographed by Rankin to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities today.

December 2014

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A pilot project bringing the perspectives of those who live in poverty or who are highly marginalised into post-2015 policymaking.

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Disability and inclusion

Disability inclusion in international development programmes

Young artists get creative to promote disability inclusion

Connecting the Dots: Investing in youth with disabilities in Uganda

Economic independence of people with disabilities

Educating for inclusion in Bangladesh

Disrupting the patriarchy through disability rights

Violence against women with disabilities

‘Inclusive’: Barrier-Free Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities

Rights during disasters: what about women with disabilities?

Women with disabilities: a call for better representation

On gender and disability

iReflect Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion

Voices of the marginalised: January 2016 update

Empowerment and inclusion: strategic framework 2015

Disability, disasters and empowerment

Strengthening Sightsavers’ reach and impact in West Africa: end-of-term evaluation

Everybody counts: policy brief

Framing perceptions: an exhibition

Disability and the SDGs: from words to action

Global goals: the most important thing in the world?

Voices of the marginalised: summary

Voices of the marginalised: full report

Voices of the marginalised: summary (Bangla version)

How double discrimination punishes women with disabilities

Children with disabilities most likely to be denied education

How a radio drama in Malawi is raising awareness of albinism

Changing perceptions about living with blindness through positive role models

Disability disaggregation of data: report

Celebrities put themselves in the picture to support Sightsavers’ campaign

Voices of the marginalised: briefing