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The Disability Dimension in Development Action

STAKES' experts developed a Manual for Inclusive Planning on how to include the disability dimension in all development actions. The manual presents step-by-step advice on how to improve the quality of development policies, programmes and projects by exercising sensitivity to the disability dimension at various phases of the programme or project planning cycle. It includes guidance on how to design an inclusive policy framework that will gear development planning towards a 'society for all'. The aim is to enable people with disabilities to exercise their human rights and responsibilities.

The manual also contains examples of disability-sensitive project documentation, checklists and an overall appraisal tool: the Rapid Handicap Analysis (RHA), which assesses whether a development activity is 'handicapped', that is, discriminating against people with disabilities.

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Published 6.3.2006, Updated 5.2.2007

The Disability Dimension in Development Action

The Disability Dimension in
Development Action


Originally published by STAKES for and on behalf of the United Nations, 1997 and 2000. Revised on-line version 2003

 

Last updated 5.2.2007
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