This paper argues that a household cross-sectional survey can provide useful information for policy planning albeit some methodological constraints must be dealt with and some limits are intrinsic to the tool. Despite the need for data on disability in developing countries for policy planning and mainstreaming persons with disability in existing programs of development, very few reliable data collection processes are available, and until the launch of a National Disability Survey in Afghanistan in 2005, stakeholders (Government, NGOs, UN agencies) were basing their programmes on unreliable estimates of prevalence and very few research based analyses
This short conference contribution summarizes the aspects of mainstreaming disability into general development. It gives reasons for mainstreaming disability and describes major ways of lobbying. It takes the experience from EU NGOs and their efforts to influence the EU development policy
This article summarises the changes in development work over the last ten years. It describes the work of UN agencies, the different banks and Nordic NGOs as well as overall aspects of disability in development