This manual presents step-by-step advice on how to improve the quality of development policies, programs and projects by exercising sensitivity to the disability dimension at various phases of the mainstream development program or project planning cycle.

This paper looks at multi-sector strategy to enhance cooperation among governments, NGOs and private organisations including donor organisations in policy making, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the mainstreaming of disability issues in the Asia and Pacific Region.

The website provides general background information, links, resources and tools on key issues regarding Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), disability and project and process management.

The rapid handicap analysis is a ten point checklist, aimed at helping inclusive development practitioners to quickly identify whether the project is inclusive of people with disabilities.

The publication details the experiences of CBM, Handicap International, and their partners in disability inclusive development.

This Guidance paper is part of the EC funded "Disability Mainstreaming in Development Cooperation" project. It provides guidance for how to make local level development efforts inclusive of people with disabilities. It contains a 'toolkit' with guidelines regarding how to undertake a participatory disability assessment and how to set up a local disability action plan.

This WHO report makes the case that people with mental health conditions – defined as encompassing mental illness, substance abuse, epilepsy and intellectual impairments – need to be recognised as a vulnerable group.

This UN Guidance Note breaks down the process for the development of the United Nations Development Assistance framework into four key stages and highlights, with detail, how disability inclusion could be achieved during these phases.

This resource manual provides insights on the theory and practice of human-rights based approaches to development. Drawing on existing experiences with other human rights conventions, this resource provides frameworks for analysing disability related laws, policies and practices. It is designed to build greater understanding of human rights based approaches and how they specifically apply to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

This paper is an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and constraints of mainstreaming disability in development programmes and partnerships, with a discussion of available tools and guidelines on how to work practically towards inclusion of people with a disability.

This site contains various documents and resources based on the European Disability Action for Mainstreaming Assessment Tool (EDAMAT). This was developed in order to help assess and promote the effective mainstreaming of disability in general policies, laws and programmes.