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Disability and Development Coalitions and Consortiums
- Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (Netherlands):
Mission is to improve the condition of persons with disabilities by promoting equality of rights, communal responsibility for care, and social integration - Global Partnership for Disability and Development (World Bank):
Formed to increase collaboration among development agencies and organizations to reduce the extreme poverty and exclusion of a substantial number of children, women and men with disabilities living in poor countries. The GPDD encourages mainstreaming to achieve MDGs. - International Disability and Development Consortium:
UK-cased consortium of 16 international non-government organisations supporting disability and development work in over 100 countries globally. Aims to more effectively and efficiently promote the rights of disabled people through collaboration and sharing of information and expertise.
International NGO's with a disability focus
- Action on Disability and Development (ADD):
UK-based NGO supporting development work with PwD's in Africa and Asia. - Asia-Pacific Development Centre on Disability:
Asia-Pacific Development Centre on Disability - Australia Pacific Islands Disability Support (APIDS):
Assists disabled peoples’ organisations to contribute towards the alleviation of poverty for people with disabilities in Pacific Island countries - Bond (British Overseas NGO's) Disability and Development Group (UK):
Supports INGOs' and donors' work more effectively to include disabled people in all development work. - Centre for International Rehabilitation:
Develops research, education and advocacy programs to improve the lives of people with disabilities internationally - CBM Australia:
An independent development organisation dedicated to preventing and curing blindness. - Disability: Knowledge and Research (UK):
Aims to influence DFID disability policy and practice. - Disability Awareness in Action:
Established to provide a network for the exchange of information and experience between disabled people and their representative organisations’, worldwide; support disabled people’s self-advocacy; promote and protect disabled people’s human rights. - Fred Hollows Foundation:
A not-for-profit, community-based, non-government development aid organisation. Our vision is of a world where no one is needlessly blind and of a land where Indigenous people enjoy the same health outcomes as all Australians. - Handicap International:
Development NGO serving people with disabilities. - Impact Foundation (UK):
An international programme to prevent and alleviate needless disability. There are 15 Impact Foundation organisations globally. - International Agency for Prevention of Blindness:
Coordinating, umbrella organization to lead an international effort in mobilizing resources for blindness prevention activities. - Leonard Cheshire:
Exists to change attitudes to disability and to serve disabled people around the world. Principal activity in the UK is the provision of services in support of disabled people - Leprosy Mission:
A non-denominational Christian organization, with over 130 years experience in leprosy work. - Mobility International (USA):
4 main programs and service areas including National Clearinghouse on Disability & Exchange (NCDE), International Development & Disability, International Exchange Programs, Women, Disability and Development - Motivation (UK):
Programmes aim to improve opportunities by positively impacting on disabled people's physical, social and economic situation to enable their full participation in society - Sense International:
Supports the development of services for deafblind people across the world. Have a number of offices in developing countries including India, Romania, Latin America and East Africa. - Sight Savers International:
Work to combat blindness in developing countries, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. Support people who are irreversibly blind by providing education, counselling and training. - Source International Information Support Centre:
An international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability. - Vision 2020 (Australia):
Partnership of 50 organisations from the eye health and vision care sector working together to eliminate avoidable blindness and improve vision care.
Australian Disability Organisations
- Arbias:
A specialist, non-government agency providing a range of services to people with acquired brain injury, predominately caused by alcohol or other substances. - Australian Government:
Resources for People with Disabilities - Beyond Blue:
A national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia. - Disability Information and Resource Centre:
Information and referral service to the people of South Australia. - Disability News (Australia):
Disability newsletter and links to local services. - House With No Steps:
Project of The Wheelchair and Disabled Association of Australia - Low Vision Online:
Helps understand what it is like to have low vision, how we can help. - National Disability Service:
National industry association for disability services, representing over 600 not-for-profit organisations.
Academic Institutions with Disability Focus
- Australian International Health Institute (AIHI):
Aims to increase the capacity of health workers and planners across the Asia-Pacific region to respond to the health needs of their populations through education, research, leadership development and health specialist services - Development Studies Network (Australian National University):
A network which encourages discussion and widespread exchange of knowledge of global social and economic development issues, development-related research, and international development assistance policy and practice. - Disability Studies and Research Institute:
Research and policy discussion. - Institute of Development Studies:
'Source' bibliographic database of mainstreaming of disability resources.
Government Aid Programs
- AusAID:
The Australian Government's overseas aid program is a federally funded program that aims to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) manages the program. - Department for International Development (UK):
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty. - Development Gateway (AUS):
Website aiming to harness internet for development - links to articles on topics such as HIV, water, transparency, gender. Knowledge sharing is the goal. Info exchange. - USAID (US):
USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Our Work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives
International NGO's
- ACFID:
An independent national association of Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the field of international aid and development - Aid Workers:
A free service set up to enable aid workers to share practical advice and resources with each other. - Asian Development Bank's Disability page:
Works to improve the welfare of the people in Asia and the Pacific. ADB website has a webpage on disability. - Caritas Australia:
A Catholic agency for international aid and development - International Committee of the Red Cross:
ICRC publication about assisting victims of anti-personnel mines, including needs, constraints and strategy - International Women's Development Agency:
An Australian non-profit organisation that creates positive change for women and their communities in Asia, the Pacific and Indigenous Australia - Oxfam (Australia):
Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisation - Plan International:
Works with children in over 60 countries - World Vision:
International development organization focusing on children
United Nations Agencies
- Human Development Report:
Statistics from Human Development Reports - Millennium Development Goals (World Bank):
Overview of MDG's and country status reports - UN Enable - Disability website:
Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - United Nations Statistics:
United Nations statistics from countries around the world - World Bank - Disability:
World Bank website on disability and development issues - World Health Organisation: Disabilities:
Provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.
Disabled People Organisations
- "Nothing About Us Without Us' - Developing Innovative Technologies For, By and With Disabled Persons:
Problem-solving to modify aids and equipment for persons with disabilities - Disabled Peoples International:
'Voice of our own'. Disabled people's international groups - Asia Pacific - International Disability Alliance:
IDA is an international network representing the following organisations: Disabled Peoples' International, Inclusion International, International Federation of Hard of Hearing People, Rehabilitation International, World Blind Union, World Federation of the Deaf, World Federation of the Deaf/Blind, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry - Landmines Survivors Network:
Created by and for survivors, LSN empowers individuals, families and communities affected by landmines to recover from trauma, reclaim their lives, and fulfill their rights - People with Disability:
People with Disability Australia Incorporated is a national peak disability rights and advocacy organization in Australia
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