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Effective Aid for Education

LAUNCH OF THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF AID EFFECTIVENESS AND THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE

ADDC is exceptionally pleased with the recognition disability has received in the release of the Aid Effectiveness Review

ADDC congratulates the Review Panel for the consultative process undertaken to ensure multi dimensional input into the review, and the Australian Government’s for its response to recommendations. “This is the first time that enhancing the lives of people with disabilities has been incorporated within the core development objectives of the aid portfolio.”

Global Response to World Disability Report- June 10 2011

Organisations are responding to the release of the much awaited  World Disability Report in different ways.
Follow this link to see how:Responses to World Report on Disability Globally

World Report on Disability released today

ADDC welcomes the release of the World Report on Disability on June 9th 2011at the UN Headquarters in New York.

This much awaited report includes the first update of the WHO’s disability prevalence estimates in more than 30 years.

The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.