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This rapid review addresses the query: What are recent examples of good practice in providing inclusive education in resource constrained environments, in terms of:

• enrolling children with disabilities into mainstream schools
• creating inclusive environments in schools, for example through teacher training, whole school approaches and awareness raising
• identifying learning needs for children with disabilities, with a particular focus on intellectual disabilities
• use of specialist education resources (eg. teachers, resource centres) to support mainstream schools

Case studies presented include:

• DFID’s Girls Education Challenge – How disability disaggregated data can generate knowledge and help ensure education is more inclusive to girls with disabilities
• Education for All in Bombali District, Sierra Leone
• Supporting transition from primary to secondary for girls with disabilities in Kenya (2014-2022)
• CBM’s experience providing inclusive education in Nicaragua
• ADD International Tanzania

This report presents research about efforts to meet the needs and uphold the rights of persons with disabilities in four thematic areas: health care, rehabilitation, work and employment, and accessibility and enabling environments. Research findings are drawn from the experiences of landmine and cluster munition survivors and other persons with similar needs in 33 countries experiencing armed conflict or emerging from armed conflict or political or economic transition. Findings are placed within the context of relevant articles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the World Report on Disability

This analysis paper presents the ‘know-how’ acquired by Handicap International in its diabetes prevention and control projects. It provides six practical know-how analysis sections focusing upon stakeholder mobilisation, services in communities, the decentralisation of diabetes care, diabetes clubs for persons with diabetes, supporting associations of persons with diabetes and conducting a study on a disabling disease project. This report would be useful to anyone interested in diabetes prevention and control in developing countries

This note provides an introduction to how social transfers - particularly cash transfers and vouchers - can improve human development, particularly for the extreme poor and socially excluded

This study is the first of four regional studies that draw attention to poverty and the increased vulnerability of disabled people and their families. The study seeks to draw attention to the extreme and systemic poverty disabled people face in Latin America and the Caribbean; to understand the relationship between disability and poverty; and to formulate policy that will reduce poverty and support disability programmes in the region. This resource would be useful for anyone with an interest in disability and development

This book is the result of the Evaluating Capacity Development (ECD) Project, begun by ISNAR in January 2000, which aimed to improve capacity development efforts in research and development organizations through the use of evaluation. It explains how the project used an action-learning approach, bringing together people from various countries and different types of organisations. Six evaluation studies were conducted over the course of three years: exploring capacity development in a rural development NGO in Bangladesh; towards strategic management in a Cuban agricultural research institute; understanding capacity development in a plant genetic resources centre in Ghana; assessing organisational change in an agricultural faculty in Nicaragua; strengthening participatory research capacities in a Philippines root crops research centre; and expanding capacities in a rural development institute in Vietnam. Chapter 1 provides background reading on the ECD project that gave rise to the book. Chapter 2 discusses basic concepts of organisational capacity, capacity development and evaluation. Chapter 3 addresses two fundamental issues: why managers should be concerned with organisational capacity development and why they should evaluate capacity development efforts. Chapter 4 discusses issues related to the 'how' of capacity development. Chapter 5 discusses partnerships for capacity development while 6 outlines approaches and methods for evaluating organisational capacity development. Chapter 7 discusses how to utilize evaluation processes and results to advance capacity development and performance in an organisation

This CD-ROM is a complete record of presentions from the 2001 Communication for Development Roundtable in Nicaragua in audio and video formats. The question examined at the Roundtable was what role communicators have to play in the future and whether current strategies, experience and knowledge are appropriate to slow the epidemic, and in which conditions they need to be expanded. Special reference was made to the social change, behaviour change, and advocacy models in HIV communications, and the emerging convergence of theories and practice