Case Studies

Africa Campaign on Disability and HIV/AIDS Seeks Health Care Stories

Posted on 16 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Audio or Visual Materials (Film fests or photo, Call for Papers, Case Studies, Cross-Disability, HIV/AIDS, Health, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Africa, AIDS, campaign, care workers, Communications Working Group, Gouwah Samuels, Grace Musoke, Health, health care, HIV, Kampala, Myroslava Tataryn, sida |

This email was recently circulated by Gouwah Samuels.
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Dear friends, colleagues and supporters
The time has come! As promised during our last meeting in Kampala the Communications Working Group is working on compiling the inaugural newsletter for the Africa Campaign on Disability and HIV/AIDS. We are hoping to get all submissions this month in order [...]

Successful Projects–What Makes Them Work?

Posted on 2 June 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Case Studies, Cognitive Impairments, Reports, Resources | Tags: anders Gustavsson, Annika Nilsson, Inclusion International, India, intellectual disabilities, Johans Sandvin, Kenya, Lennart Nilsson, romania, South Africa, successful projects--what makes them work |

Ideas are easy. Any 10 disability advocates will have 100 ideas for projects to fight poverty or otherwise improve the lives of people with disabilities in developing countries. But knowing how to implement projects that actually do what advocates and funders hope they will do is much harder. So, what makes successful [...]

RESOURCE, FUNDING: Network to Exchange Success Stories

Posted on 6 March 2008. Filed under: Case Studies, Funding, News, Opportunities, Poverty | Tags: disability and development, disabled people, disaster prevention, Education, governance, Health, human development, ifap, information for all programme, information for development, international development, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, poverty reduction, UNESCO, United nations educational scientific and cultural orga |

Organizations that have “success stories” to share now have a way to reach a wider audience. And organizations that wish to learn from other successful projects now have a resource to which they can turn.
A few of the very best, most innovative participating projects might also obtain funding. (If interested in funding, submit stories [...]

CASE STUDY: Strengthening Disabled Women Organizations in Nicaragua

Posted on 26 January 2008. Filed under: Capacity Building and Leadership, Case Studies, Cross-Disability, Latin America & Caribbean, Women | Tags: Central America, disability and international development, disabled people, disabled women, Disabled women organizations, international development, Latin America, NGO, Nicaraguan women, One World Action, people with disabilities, Solidez, women with disabilities |

A publication entitled “Learning from experience: strengthening organisations of women with disabilities” (PDF format, 900 Kb) shares lessons learned about organizing, personal empowerment, awareness raising, and incorporating a gender perspective. The publication focuses on work done by a Nicaraguan non-governmental organization (NGO), Solidez, that works to strengthen the capacity of local disabled women’s organizations [...]

CASE STUDIES: Disabled Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia

Posted on 26 January 2008. Filed under: Blind, Case Studies, Cognitive Impairments, Cross-Disability, Deaf, Employment, Mobility Impariments, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Women | Tags: Addis Ababa, Africa, African entrepreneurs, blind entrepreneurs, business in Africa, deaf entrepreneurs, disabled entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with leprosy, entrepreneurs with mobility impairments, Ethiopia, ethiopian entrepreneurs, hearing impairments, leprosy, sub-saharan africa, Tigray, visual impairments, women entrepreneurs |

Women with disabilities in Ethiopia and many other countries can face enormous obstacles in becoming economically independent. But some Ethiopian disabled women do become successful entrepreneurs.
A publication from the International Labour Organization (ILO), entitled Doing Business in Addis Ababa: Case Studies of Women Entrepreneurs with Disabilities in Ethiopia, presents 20 stories that describe how [...]

RESOURCE: How to Include Disabled Women in Your Organizations

Posted on 23 January 2008. Filed under: Case Studies, Cross-Disability, Inclusion, Resources, Women | Tags: a manual on including people with disabilities in inter, Association for Women's rights in Development, AWID, best practice, Building an inclusive development community, Case Studies, checklist for inclusion, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disability and international development, disabled, disabled people, disabled women, GDDI, gender disability and development Institute, handbook on mainstreaming disability, Inclusion, international development, international development agencies, international development and disability program, mainstreaming, MIUSA, Mobility International USA, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, Sarah Rosenhek, Volunteer Service Overseas, VSO, women with disabilities, women's organizations |

[Originally published at wecando.wordpress.com (We Can Do) at http://tinyurl.com/yv5ouo]
Certain resources can help women’s organizations and international development agencies better include disabled women in their program activities. Skip to the resource list.
Women with disabilities confront many of the same challenges that other women in developing countries face, such as gender-based discrimination. But they also face [...]

Finding Resources, Toolkits, and Funding Sources

Posted on 15 January 2008. Filed under: Case Studies, Cross-Disability, Funding, Introduction to "We Can Do", Resources | Tags: Case Studies, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD resources, development organization, disabilities, disability and international development, disability organizations, disabled people, Funding, funding sources, fundraising, inclusive development, international development, organizations, people with disabilities, Resources, toolkits, We Can Do blog |

[Original publication at wecando.wordpress.com (We Can Do) at http://tinyurl.com/28hh6h.]
I have now created a new page, linked from the top navigation bar, entitled “Resources, Toolkits, and Funding. In this page, you can find the following types of materials:

Finding organizations
Resources for inclusive development
Resources on the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Case studies
Funding [...]

We Can Do Retrospective: The First 100 Posts (and Then Some)

Posted on 22 December 2007. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Arts, Blind, Call for Papers, Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Commonwealth Nations, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Cross-Disability, Deaf, Democratic Participation, Disability Studies, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, East Asia Pacific Region, East Asia and Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Education and Training Opportunities, Employment, Events and Conferences, Families, Fellowships & Scholarships, Funding, Guest Blogger, HIV/AIDS, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Inclusion, Interpreting, Introduction to "We Can Do", Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Mobility Impariments, Multiple Disabilities, News, Opinion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation, Poverty, Psychiatric Disabilities, Rehabilitation, Remittances, Reports, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence, Volunteer Opportunities, Women, autism, technology | Tags: , Academic Papers and Research, blind children, Call for Papers, case study, child-friendly CRPD, computers for blind people, conferences, CRPD, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disability and international development, disability rights, disabled, disabled people, Disabled People International, Dolphin Pen, events, Funding, funding sources, Handicap International, Human Rights, human rights resources, Inclusion, India, information, international convention on the rights of persons with, International Day of Disabled Persons, international development, journals, mainstreaming disability, missed opportunities, News, opinion pieces, papers, parliamentarians, people with disabilities, poverty reduction strategies, practical resources, research, resource book, Resources, retrospective, screen magnifier, screen reader, Sightsaver's dolphin pen, training opportunities, UN Enable, United Nations, universal design, visitability, Voluntary Services Overseas, We Can Do, Zimbabwe |

Skip introduction, go straight to the Table of Contents
If you’re new to We Can Do, what interesting information, news, or resources might you have overlooked from the past few months? Although some older items may no longer be interesting, others may still be relevant and helpful a year or three from now. This [...]

RESOURCE: VSO Handbook on Mainstreaming Disability

Posted on 17 November 2007. Filed under: Announcements, Case Studies, Cross-Disability, Inclusion, Poverty, Resources | Tags: , AskSource, asksource.info Inclusion, Blind, Deaf, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disabled, international development, mainstreaming, mobility impairment, Voluntary Services Overseas, VSO |

A publication from Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) offers practical advice to mainstream international development organizations on how they can better include disabled people in the programs they run in developing countries. It is entitled A Handbook on Mainstreaming Disability (PDF format, 1.9 Mb) and can be retrieved from the asksource.info web site at http://www.asksource.info/pdf/33903_vsomainstreamingdisability_2006.pdf.
VSO recommends [...]

Please Submit YOUR Materials to We Can Do

Posted on 7 November 2007. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Arts, Blind, Call for Papers, Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR), Cross-Disability, Deaf, Disability Studies, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, East Asia Pacific Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Families, Funding, Guest Blogger, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Interpreting, Introduction to "We Can Do", Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Mobility Impariments, Multiple Disabilities, News, Opinion, Opportunities, Policy & Legislation, Poverty, Psychiatric Disabilities, Rehabilitation, Remittances, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence, Volunteer Opportunities, Women | Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Croatia, CRPD, Cuba, disability, disability movement, disability rights, Gabon, guest blogging, Hungary, India, international development, Jamaica, Panama, publishing, We Can Do, writing |

Currently, We Can Do gathers news; announcements; academic papers; case studies; opinion pieces; information about resources; and other materials of interest to disabled advocates and international development professionals from a wide range of sources. In addition to these, from time to time, I write fresh content of my own.
I also hope to [...]

Report: 1st Africa Deaf HIV/AIDS Workshop

Posted on 20 October 2007. Filed under: Case Studies, Deaf, HIV/AIDS, Resources, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: African Deaf Union, AIDS, AIDS workshop, Deaf, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disabled, Eastern Africa, HIV, international development, report, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia |

No continent has been struck by HIV/AIDS more than sub-Saharan Africa: nearly two-thirds of all people living with HIV are in Africa, and so were three-quarters of those who died from AIDS in 2006 (see UNAIDS report). We also know that people with disabilities are at higher risk for becoming infected with HIV (see [...]

Violence Against Blind/VI Girls in Malawi

Posted on 6 October 2007. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Blind, Case Studies, Children, Guest Blogger, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Violence | Tags: Abigail Suka, Blind, blind girls, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disabled, girls, international development, Malawi, Malawi schools, Malawi Union of the Blind, schools, Sight Savers International, Violence, violence against blind girls, violence against girls, violence against Malawi girls, violence against visually impaired girls, visually impaired, visually impaired girls |

This paper was presented by its author Abigail Suka at the 12th International Council on Education for People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) World Conference held in Malaysia from 16-21 July 2006.  Although she was with Sightsavers International at the time she presented this paper, Abigail Suka is now an independent consultant in development issues, team [...]

IDCS Newsletter: Deaf Children, Families, and Schools

Posted on 1 October 2007. Filed under: Case Studies, Children, Deaf, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Families, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Afghanistan, Burkino Faso, deaf children, disabilities, disability, disability and development, disabled, IDCS, India, International deaf children's society, international development, Kazakhstan, Somaliland, Zimbabwe |

Thank you to the International Deaf Children’s Society (IDCS) for granting their permission to repost their newsletter at We Can Do. This newsletter contains information about a range of programs targeted at deaf children and their families and schools in Burkino Faso; Zimbabwe; Somaliland; Kazakhstan; Afghanistan; and India.
Note that IDCS would like [...]

CASE STUDY: Early Intervention for Blind Children

Posted on 20 September 2007. Filed under: Blind, Case Studies, Children, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Multiple Disabilities | Tags: disabilities, disability, early intervention, international development, Irina Germanova Sumarokova, Nizhniy Novgorod, Perspektiva, Regional Charity of Parents of Visually Impaired, Russia |

The following case study is written by Irina Germanova Sumarokova, director of Nizhniy Novgorod Regional Charity of Parents of Visually Impaired “Perspektiva.”
Establish a model of early intervention center for providing permanent medical, social psychological and pedagogic services for families with blind or visually impaired children in Nizhniy Novgorod
Irina Germanovna Sumarokova
Director
Nizhniy Novgorod Regional Charity [...]