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Disability-focused organisational assessment and strengthening

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AnnaJolly @Maestral • 31 March 2021

Disability Inclusive Development Toolkit

CBM (2017)

This toolkit can be used for:

  • staff induction, team meetings, refresher days and training workshops

  • staff’s personal reflection and self-study

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Community-based Rehabilitation Guidelines: Introductory Booklet

WHO, UNESCO, ILO & International Disability Development Consortium (‎2010)‎

The guidelines provide community-based rehabilitation (CBR) managers and practitioners with practical guidance on how to develop and strengthen CBR programmes, ensuring that people with disabilities and their families access the benefits of the health, education, livelihood and social sectors. The guidelines have a strong focus on empowerment through facilitation of the inclusion and participation of people with disabilities, their families, and communities in all development and decision-making processes.

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Disability Communications Tips

USAID (2016)

This document is a concise guidance on how organisations can positively communicate about people with disabilities, including an easy reference guide of commonly used affirmative and negative phrases.

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Culture, Beliefs, Disability: Toolkit on Disability for Africa

UNDSPD and Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2016)

The learning activities 2.A (Negative Stereotypes and Myths about People with Disabilities) and 2.E (Strategies to Address Negative Stereotypes and Myths) in this toolkit can be used within organisations to assess traditional/customary stereotypes and myths against people with disabilities, and to then create strategies and campaigns to dispel and combat these myths.

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Strategic Plan

CSID (2012)

This document is CSID’s strategic plan for 2013-2018. It serves as a sample strategic plan for members aiming to be more disability-inclusive.

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Disability audit tool stage 1: Staff capacity and training needs assessment

First Step Cambodia (n/d)

This audit tool was produced to help service providers develop positive responses towards CwD by mainstreaming disability issues across their work. Stage one of the audit tool helps organisations to identify key learning needs for all staff and management and develop a strategy to meet those needs.

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Disability audit tool stage 2: Organisation policies, structure, and capacity assessment

First Step Cambodia (n/d)

Stage two of the audit tool helps staff and management of organisations to reflect on all aspects of their organisation from policy through to practice and identify areas of change needed to improve responses to children with disabilities.

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Child Protection Policy

CSID (2018)

This document is CSID’s Child Protection Policy; it serves as a sample policy for members looking to be more disability-inclusive in their own Child Protection Policies.

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Child Protection Policy

ChildLink (2012)

This document is ChildLink’s Child Protection Policy (2012). It includes a paragraph about how disability can make children more vulnerable to violence and exploitation and emphasises the importance of child participation for children with disabilities.

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Log frame

ChildLink (n/d)

This document is a log frame for a ChildLink project which aims at “Strengthening policy, system, skills and services to integrate children with disabilities into mainstream schools in Guyana and Jamaica by September 2022.” It serves as a sample log frame for members working in inclusive education.

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