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Disability and inclusion

Sylvia sat down, knitting on a machine.

iReflect Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion

Findings of a synthesis report to collect knowledge, experience and learning from Sightsavers’ projects with an economic empowerment component.

A woman, smiling, hugs her daughter and best friend.

Voices of the marginalised: January 2016 update

A community-based participatory project, aiming equitably to involve community members, organisational representatives and external researchers.

Bhanvari, who is blind, weaves in her home in the Bikaner district of India.

Empowerment and inclusion: strategic framework 2015

This framework document clarifies what disability inclusion means for Sightsavers and sets out how we can achieve it.

Children stand outside their school in Bangladesh.

Disability, disasters and empowerment

A Sightsavers report identifying the causes of vulnerability to disasters for people with disabilities in Satkhira, Bangladesh.

Woman pushing child in wheelchair

Strengthening Sightsavers’ reach and impact in West Africa: end-of-term evaluation

The achievements from the first four years of the “Strengthening Sightsavers reach and impact in West Africa” 2012-2015 programme supported by Irish Aid.

People in Bhopal, India attend a busy eye screening meeting.

Everybody counts: policy brief

A Sightsavers project identifying a number of barriers that can prevent people from engaging with providing and collecting data on disability.

Manju, an Indian woman with a disability, sits and thinks.

Framing perceptions: an exhibition

A Sightsavers exhibition booklet by photographer Graeme Robertson focusing on stories of empowered lives and the impact of exclusion.

A girl in class reading braille.

Disability and the SDGs: from words to action

World governments will meet at the United Nations General Assembly this weekend, and a key item on their agenda is the Sustainable Development Goals.

September 2015
An illuminated sign that reads 'End inequality' is held up amid the darkness at the Light the Way event in London.

Global goals: the most important thing in the world?

This September, world leaders are meeting in New York at the UN General Assembly to set global goals for the next 15 years.

Sightsavers, September 2015
An older woman stands alone in Bangladesh.

Voices of the marginalised: summary

A report summary exploring what persons with disabilities and older people understand as the causes of their social, economic and political exclusion.