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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 publication examines the links between poverty and HIV, the impact of HIV on population and development, mechanisms for carrying out HIV impact assessments and the use of impact assessments in advocacy, programme design and poverty reduction strategies

This practical manual gives guidelines on how disability can be promoted in project planning. The online version (RHA3) is a 10-point checklist that is intended to facilitate the rapid assessment of development programmes and projects for the adequate inclusion of the disability dimension in the plans

This paper discusses the mission of the Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) to address disability issues in development in Bangladesh through Community Approaches to Handicap in Development (CAHD). The paper looks at the components of CAHD, its implementation in terms of types of activities and organizations and specifically how the CAHD programme has been implemented by CDD in Bangladesh, with a breakdown of outcomes and impacts
Regional Symposium on Disability 2003

This paper sets out an approach to disability and development based on the social model of disability. It states that national and international statistics on the incidence of physical and/or mental impairment provides a partial and often misleading notion of the social reality of disability in developing countries. They should therefore not be used to gauge the needs of disabled people or to estimate the costs or benefits of programmes. The paper argues for the need to formulate an integrated strategy towards disability and development. It recommends that specific criteria be adopted for judging project concept notes and proposals and makes recommendations regarding the choice and weighting of criteria. It also provides a set of recommendations for: DFID in general; DFID in relation to its Disability Knowledge and Research (KaR) programme; the Disability KaR programme managers; further work to be undertaken

This issue holds a number of contributions from authors about community-based rehabilitation (CBR). They focus on traditional aspects of society, CBR in emergency situations and related issues in south east Asia

This paper discusses the inter-connections between gender, disability, development assistance and poverty. It further outlines models and philosophies for disabled women in Asia

This book provides a conceptual review of social capital and measurement tools in a form readily accessible to development practitioners. It discusses the value of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the analysis of social capital, illustrating the discussion with examples, and case studies from many countries. It also presents the Social Capital Assessment Tool, which combines quantitative and qualitative instruments to measure social capital at the level of household, community, and organisation, drawing on multidisciplinary, empirical experiences, an application which can provide project managers with valuable baseline, and monitoring information about social capital in its different dimensions. The Social Capital Assessment Tool can be downloaded from a CD-ROM which is included with this book