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Equalise it! A Manifesto for Disability Equality in Development Cooperation The Manifesto has been written to identify the issues for the disability movement, clarify any confusion there may be for disability and development professionals and set out a programme for change in order to create real equality for disabled people and our democratic, representative organisations (DPOs) in the development process. The adoption of the UN Convention on the rights of People with Disabilities by a growing number of countries makes the implementation of the principles in this manifesto a matter of urgency.
We hope that DPOs will continue to join the growing number from throughout the world who have signed up to the Manifesto. Only by being clear about what we expect from those we work with can we bring about progressive change.
We also welcome other organisations that work on disability and development to sign up to the Check List for Allies found at the end of the Manifesto.
For further information, please contact:
Mark Harrison
IDEA
Social Action Research Centre
ODG
School of Development Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
NR4 7TJ
+44(0)1603 593362
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Capacity Building of Disabled People's Organisations in the
South.
The Scandinavian Model.
Scandinavian countries were among the first to engage positively with the idea of disability as a human rights issue and to see its inclusion within development cooperation as crucial. Both these positions owe much to effective lobbying by organisations controlled by disabled people (DPOs). In all four countries DPOs have also taken a leading role in the practical work of development cooperation around disability, specifically working closely with sister DPOs in the South. It is for this reason that the report was commissioned, as it is part of a DFID-funded project to consider the most effective means of supporting capacity building among Southern DPOs.
The main aim of the report is to see what lessons, if any, can be learned about the best way of assisting Southern DPOs by examining the relationships between the national development agencies in Scandinavia and their own DPOs and between those DPOs and their counterparts in the South.
Disability, Poverty and Technology
This report offers an evaluation of the first DFID-funded Disability Knowledge and Research Programme (2000-2002). The authors maintain that the concepts of disability, poverty and technology, are best understood in terms of dynamic social processes and set out an approach to disability and development based on the social model of disability. They consider the KAR Programme and its procedures for selecting projects for funding, and recommend specifically that disability equality training and robust mechanisms for involving disabled people and their organisations be introduced. The report examines the specific criteria adopted for judging project concept notes and proposals and makes recommendations regarding the choice and weighting of criteria. Finally, it provides a set of recommendations, a) for DFID in general, b) for DFID in relation to the KAR Programme, c) for the programme managers and d) with respect for further work to be undertaken. The findings of this report provided the basis for the second Disability and Knowledge Programme (2003-2006).
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