Reports

An eye health clinic in Bhopal, India.

Delivering V2020 in the Caribbean: final report

The landmark Caribbean Strategic Framework for Vision 2020: The Right to Sight (CSF) was developed in 2002 and later updated in 2009.

Student Ariane smiles at her desk while wearing her new glasses.

Exploring blindness around the world: resources for students

These resources support teachers in Ireland to explore issues relating to sight from the developing world.

A boy in Pakistan wears special spectacles during an eye test.

Pakistan Urban Paediatric Eye Care Programme: evaluation

Sightsavers’ Pakistan Country Office developed a five-year project on child eye health in slum areas of five urban cities.

A Ugandan woman sewing clothes.

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.

A mother and daughter hug after receiving cataract operations in India.

Sightsavers' approach to inclusive eye health: presentation

A presentation explaining Sightsavers' commitment to inclusive education for all, and existing government legislation on the issue.

Children attend school in Bangladesh.

Educating for inclusion in Bangladesh

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

Elimination of blinding trachoma in Guinea Bissau: 2013-2015

An evaluation of a three-year phase (2013-2015) of a long-term SAFE intervention to eliminate trachoma in Guinea-Bissau.

Hazrat with his family.

‘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. 

A child in Senegal holds antibiotic tablets in his hand.

Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP): end-of-project evaluation

The aim of the three-year GTMP was to map the prevalence of trachoma using smartphones, across all endemic areas worldwide.

Sylvia sat down, knitting on a machine.

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 man looks into a eye testing machine.

UNITED programme: mid-term evaluation

This evaluation assesses the performance of the Northern Nigeria Integrated NTDs Control (UNITED) programme to see if objectives are being met.

Two women and a man are carrying measuring sticks to calculate the dosage of Mectizan. Two of them are wearing high-vis tops.

Strengthening reach and impact in West Africa: action plan

The Irish Aid grant “Strengthening Sightsavers reach and impact in West Africa” aims to improve access to health, education and social inclusion for women, men and children living in West Africa.

A woman, smiling, hugs her daughter and best friend.

Voices of the marginalised: January 2016 update

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.

Empowerment and inclusion: strategic framework 2015

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.

Disability, disasters and empowerment

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

Woman pushing child in wheelchair

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

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.

Everybody counts: policy brief

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.

Framing perceptions: an exhibition

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

A group of residents in Kolkata, dressed in colourful clothing.

Sustainability statement

We want to ensure we are a sustainable organisation which is properly accountable.

A group of cataract patients smile broadly after surgery.

Kolkata Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Programme: end-of-term evaluation

The ‘Seeing is Believing’ (SiB) initiative is a global intervention aimed at tackling avoidable blindness in areas of high need.

Nazondani Mologeni, 76, having her eyes checked by OCO Harold Malinda.

Advancing Healthy Communities in East Africa: end-of-term evaluation

The programme aimed to increase access to eye health services and to reduce the cataract surgical backlog in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Villagers in Guinea involved in a project to eliminate onchocerciasis.

Elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis: strategic plan

These documents outline our current work and look at the potential for eliminating the transmission of the diseases.

A woman reads from a chart during a sight test in Mozambique.

Advancing healthy communities in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe: final evaluation

The Advancing Healthy Communities programme aimed to develop a mid-level eye care workforce to increase access to eye health services and to reduce the cataract surgical backlog in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

An older woman stands alone in Bangladesh.

Voices of the marginalised: summary

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.

Voices of the marginalised: full report

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.

Voices of the marginalised: summary (Bangla version)

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.

A woman holding a child, smiling and standing outside a thatched dwelling.

Marsabit trachoma control project: evaluation report

The Marsabit Trachoma Control Project evaluation findings are a true reflection of what the project achieved during the CR funded period.

A mother with her son in Dhaka. He is wearing his new spectacles.

Bangladesh Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project: evaluation

The project aimed to strengthen eye care facilities, increase awareness of eye care among poor urban communities, and increase access to eye services.

Three children lean over a wall and fill yellow containers with water from a tap.

Kenya Marsabit Trachoma Control Programme: end-of-term evaluation

Since April 2011, we have been running a trachoma control project with Comic Relief funding in Marsabit, focusing on the scale-up of the SAFE strategy.

A boy smiles and is embraced by his father after having his dressings removed following eye surgery in Bangladesh.

Strengthen national capacities on paediatric ophthalmology in Bangladesh: end-of-term evaluation

The project aimed to train paediatric ophthalmic teams, improve leadership and management, and establish a paediatric outpatient department.