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  • Global development voices: Living with disabilities

    There are estimated to be 1 billion disabled people across the world. Disability doesn't feature specifically in the MDGs, but many campaigners say lack of provision for the disabled is holding back development progress. Here 14 people with disabilities tell us about the challenges they face in their countries.

    The Guardian via GPDD
  • MDGs and Disability Inclusive Development

    This document from ADDC outlines the significance of including people with disabilities in the Millenium Development Goals. Informative statistics and figures in context for all eight goals are provided, to assert the need for development to be disability inclusive in order to be truly effective.

    Australian Disability+Development Consortium (ADDC): February 2011
  • International Day of People with Disabilities 2010 - Videos

    The Australian Disability & Development Consortium (ADDC) released two videos in time for the International Day of People with Disabilities 2010. Hear how you can support disability inclusive development.

    Australian Disability & Development Consortium (ADDC): December 2010
  • Implementation of the World Programme of Action on Disabled Persons

    The report includes a brief outline of the efforts being made to include people with disabilities in the context of each of the goals. This report is helpful for someone looking for examples of inclusion of people with disabilities within development efforts.

    Australian Council for International Development (ACFID): July 2007
  • Impaired Millennium Development Goals

    This editorial criticise the absence of disability in any of the Millennium Development Goals and the 48 indicators. It explains the link between disability and poverty highlighting the need for marginalised groups to be included in development efforts in order to achieve the targets.

    Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development: October 2005
  • Disability & the Millennium Development Goals

    This document outlines a rationale for inclusion of people with disabilities in each of the Millennium Development Goals.

    The World Bank
  • Disability and the Millenium Development Goals: ACFID issues paper

    This paper considers the rights and needs of persons with disabilities, together with the prevention of the causes of disabilities.

    ACFID: September 2003
  • Hear Our Voices: A Global Report

    This report presents findings from a global study on people with intellectual disabilities and their families, reflecting on the Millennium Development Goals and considering why this group has not benefited from them. It finishes with the beginning of a global agenda to combat exclusion and poverty.

    Inclusion International: November 2006
  • Disability, disadvantage and development in the Pacific and Asia

    This publication provides comprehensive information on the relationship between disability, disadvantage and opportunities for social and economic development.

    Development Bulletin, ANU: April 2009
  • Disabled people and development

    The knowledge, inclusion, participation, and access (KIPA) framework forms the core structure of this Asian Development Bank (ADB) manual. This represents the four main outcomes guiding the integration of the needs of people with disabilities into development.

    Asian Development Bank: 2005
  • Chronic poverty and disability

    This paper argues that disabled people are so severely excluded from all areas of society that there is not even comparable or reliable data on incidence, distribution and trends of disability, let alone the extent of disabled people's poverty.

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre: 2001
  • Include Everybody: Disability and the MDGs

    This site looks at the issues of including disability in plans for tackling poverty and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).

    The International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC): 2009

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