Links within this Sector

  • ILO launches first global business and disability website

    The ILO has taken a major step toward promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace with the launch of a pioneering new global knowledge sharing platform linking scores of multinational enterprises and organizations representing employers and networks of people with disabilities.

    International Labour Organization (ILO)
  • AusAID Disability Action Plan 2011-14

    AusAID launched its Disability Action Plan 2011-14 on 3 December 2011, International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD).

    AusAID: December 2011
  • The price of exclusion

    This technical report analyses the economic costs associated with exclusion of people with disabilities from work environments in ten countries, stemming both from a disabling environment and exclusion from the labour market.

    International Labor Organization: 2009
  • Count us In! Making sure Women with disabilities can participate in mainstream development

    This resource aims to facilitate the inclusion of women with disabilities into Women’s Entrepreneurship Development programs. The resource contains clear advocacy information as well as tools and checklists for ensuring women with disabilities are included.

    International Labour Organisation: 2008
  • Impact of living or working environments on persons with disabilities

    This paper assesses the importance of living or working environmental constraints, in people's activity limitations in day-to-day work/school and participation restrictions (such as joining in community activities).

    UNESCAP: 2007
  • EmployAbility a resource guide on disability for employers in Asia and the Pacific

    This resource manual contains information to assist businesses and organisations that want to benefit from the business case for recruiting, hiring and retaining people with disabilities as employees.

    ILO: 2007
  • The hidden face of care: combining work and caring responsibilities for the aged and people with a disability

    This report aims to provide a holistic picture of the experience (and challenges) of combining work and aged and/or disability care; one which includes the financial cost of care and the personal, community and economic impacts of care on workforce participation.

    Taskforce on Care Costs: 2007
  • Australian Human Rights Commission employment guides

    This web page is intended to provide a convenient entry point for resources on equal employment opportunity and disability which exist in various areas of the Commission's site, as well as links to resources from other organisations.

    Australian Human Rights Commission: 2009
  • Employment of people with disabilities: the impact of legislation

    This is a report of the project consultation for Asia Pacific countries that took place in Bangkok on 17 January 2003, following on a three-day ILO Regional Consultation on Vocational Training and Employment of People with Disabilities funded by the Government of Japan. The project aimed to enhance the capacity of national governments of selected countries to implement effective legislation on the employment of people with disabilities.

    International Labour Organization: 2003
  • Good practices for the economic inclusion of people with disabilities

    This report aims to highlight good practices, strategies, tools and operational methods that guarantee the efficiency and sustainability of projects that support access to funding mechanisms and the self-employment of landmine victims and people with disabilities in general. More specifically, the study focuses on the use of microcredit and grants for the start-up and expansion of microenterprises.

    Handicap International: 2006
  • Empowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific

    As many as 70-80% of disabled people in the Asia and Pacific region are farmers and rural workers, or disabled soldiers who have returned to the land. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started developing articulated policies and strategies for improving the poverty alleviation and income generating capacities of the rural disabled, an important sector of the rural poor.

    FAO: 2004

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