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Women with Disabilities in DevelopmentWorld Bank
March 10, 2009
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USAID’s Approach to Integrating Women with Disabilities into Development
• Mainstream women with disabilities into general programming and activities
• Finding opportunities to build capacity of women with disabilities and DPOs for women
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Successful Mainstreaming Approaches
• Working with the Women in Development Office (WID)
• Including women with disabilities in project design, implementation and evaluation
• Investing in Women and Development (IWID) fellowship
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Building Capacity of Women with Disabilities
• Supporting of programs and encouraging subgrants for women with disabilities
• Increasing resources for women with disabilities
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Challenges
• Poor general understanding of gender issues
• Continued need to integrate women with disability in mainstream gender programs and all development programs
• Lack of good practices and research
• Limited capacity of DPOs
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Moving Forward
• Take time and build capacity
• Identify opportunities for inclusion
• Begin to evaluate and build best practices
• Realize nothing about us, without us
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For more information on USAID’s policies and programs visit:
www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/disability