Research, Reports, Papers, Statistics

• Academic Papers
• Reports and Other Research on People with Disabilities in Developing Countries
• Other Publications on People with Disabilities in Developing Countries
• Tips and Leads for How to Find More Academic Research, Papers, Resources, or Statistics
• Tools and Resources for Researchers

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Academic Papers

We Can Do has published, or re-published, academic papers, or linked to same, on a range of subjects, including:

• Disability and Contraception in Developing Countries
• Deaf people in African histories, c. 960s to 1960s
• A book on the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities has been released, by editor Bhanushali Kishorkumar, for sale via the publisher.
• Upside Down World published an article on the recent history of disability rights in El Salvador
• Independent Living Movement in Developing Countries by Shoji Nakanishi
• Violence against blind and visually impaired girls in school in Malawi by Abigail Suka
• Changing Face of Disability Movement: from Charity to Empowerment by Kishor Bhanushali
• Impact of the South Asian Earthquake on Disabled People in the State of Jammu and Kashmir by Dr. Parvinder Singh
• Equalizing Educational Opportunity for the Nigerian-Ghanaian Blind Girl Child by Florence Banku Obi.
• Violence Against Women with Disabilities in South Africa by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa.
• An early post reviews information on deaf children with additional disabilities and resources available for them in developing countries.

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Reports and Other Research on People with Disabilities in Developing Countries

Researchers often want to see existing information about people with disabilities. Disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) also find it helpful to reference official documented sources of information when they seek funding support. Some of the following may lead to useful links:

• Based on a survey in 2004, Report on the situation of people with disabilities in 28 Asian-Pacific countries, entitled “Disability at a Glance” by ESCAP.
• A study conducted with four major international donors asks, Has Disability Been Mainstreamed into Development Cooperation? Their answer is: apart from some exceptions, mostly no. Discusses what seems to stop inclusion from happening and how to address the problem.
• A June 2008 publication from the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children has released a report on the situation of refugees with disabilities, and also a companion resource kit for fieldworkers.
• Education for all: A gender and disability perspective attempts to summarize what little is known; what isn’t known; and what researchers and others ought to do about it.
• A report entitled Free movement of people with disabilities in South East Europe: an inaccessible right? documents the mobility and accessibility situation of people with a range of different disabilities in the region.
• The report entitled, Are Disabled People’s Voices from Both South and North being Heard in the Development Process? says no. Based on study in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
• The Siyanda database has publications on gender and development, including some on disability.
• The HIV/AIDS and Disability Global Survey website has data and research about HIV/AIDS among people with disabilities around the world.
• UNICEF has released a Report on “Education’s Missing Millions” about how to make Education For All efforts be more inclusive of disabled children
• The US National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research has released an on-line publication, Emergency Management Research and People with Disabilities: A Resource Guide, which lists research projects on emergency management.
• UNICEF has released a summary report on Violence Against Disabled Dhildren.
• The Innocenti Research Center at UNICEF Innocenti Digest on Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities
• The World Bank has published a survey of poverty assessments among people with disabilities and their implications
• The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has published a report: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Education for All
• The World Disasters Report (2007): Focus on Discrimination examines how discrimination can put vulnerable groups at risk during disaster. Includes a full chapter on people with disabilities. By the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
• The Report: State of Disabled People’s Rights in Kenya 2007 focuses on the human rights status of people with disabilities in Kenya.
• “Hear Our Voices: A Global Report: People with an Intellectual Disabilities and their Families Speak Out on Poverty and Exclusion” can help readers better understand what poverty and exclusion mean for people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
• The Atlas: Global Resources for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: 2007 presents global data on resources and services available–or not available–to people with intellectual disabilities around the world.
• Report on Disabled People in Zimbabwe
• World Bank Report on Disabled people in India
• A report on research capacity on mental health in low- and middle-income countries was published by the Global Forum for Health Research on Mental Health Day in October 2007.
• The International Labour Organization (ILO) published a report on employment and people with disabilities, which calls for more active and sustained efforts to increase the employment of people with disabilities.

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Other Publications

Other publications, newsletters, conference reports, special issues, etc. that don’t quite fit other categories in this file.

• On-line videos highlight life for deaf people in the Central African Republic, Philippines, and Venezuela; a fourth video compares the signed languages of Mexico and Austria.
• A report was released from a seminar on disaster risk reduction for deaf people and people with disabilities held in Pakistan in July 2008.
• Delegates at a September 2008 conference in Kenya on the Millennium Development Goals and Disability has released a statement urging the inclusion and mainstreaming of disability into the MDGs
• A report is available on a Pakistan seminar on the challenges and hopes of deaf and hard of hearing people held in late August 2008.
• The 4th All Africa Wheelchair Congress Report from a conference held in September 2007 in Tanzania is available.
• A Report on the Rehabilitation International-USCIS Seminar on the implementation of the Draft UN CRPD presents views shared at the August 2006 seminar about implementing the CRPD.
• Rehabilitation International has produced a special issue focused on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
• The United Nations has launched a new, monthly newsletter about disability-related activities in the various United Nations agencies. You can either read it on-line or subscribe via email for free.

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Tips and Leads for How to Find More Academic Research, Papers, Resources, or Statistics

Looking for academic research and academic papers; resources that can be used by people working in the field; or sources of statistics? Some of the following posts may be helpful:

• Disability in Non-Western Societies: A Bibliography of Bibliographies by M. Miles, as the title implies, lists reference materials for people researching disabilities in the Middle East; East Asia; South Asia; Africa; and developing countries in general.
• Disability in the Middle East: A Bibliography, by M. Miles, helps researchers identify possible sources of information about disability in the Middle East region throughout history and modern times.
• The HIV/AIDS and Disability Global Survey website has data and research about HIV/AIDS among people with disabilities around the world.
• The Siyanda database has publications on gender and development, including some on disability.
• The UNICEF web site on child disability has some data relevant to the topic.
• The Disability Kenya web site has news, opinion pieces, and some helpful resources including a model of a successful funding grant proposal, and health-related information including HIV/AIDS and rape.
• An organization has launched a survey about the process of signing or ratifying the international disability rights treaty (CRPD) in seven European countries. The report on the survey will be published at a seminar in Helsinki in May, 2008.
• As of mid-February, 2008, one researcher has been conducting a survey on HIV/AIDS among people with disabilities in Jamaica.
• A publication entitled Human Rights Africa has news and feature articles on human rights issues among persons with disabilities in Africa.
• An on-line tool makes it easier to research the human rights record of various businesses toward people with disabilities
• The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal has published a number of articles of interest over the years.
• Find information on disability-related laws and policies around the world.
• Disability Knowledge: Hungarian and English
• Numbers Don’t Feed People–Or Do They? On finding statistics relevant to disabled people in developing countries
• Sometimes web sites for disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) have publications that you can download, including reports, statistics, papers, and other information. Follow the link or explore the blogroll in the far right-hand navigation bar or at the very bottom of this page.
• Mainstream development organizations also sometimes have publications that you can download for free, including some that focus on people with disabilities.

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Tools and Resources for Researchers

• Researchers who plan to conduct household surveys on disability may wish to turn to this disability survey toolkit for researchers

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