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NICE guideline | This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve quality of life by reducing ... more
People affected by impairments and disabilities associated with TB are even more likely to belong to marginalized segments of society and are more likely to have their human rights unprotected. The challenges faced by people affected by TB include the consequences of ... more
At present at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a vision impairment, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The wo ... more
Better Parenting Nigeria is a parenting education program whose goal is to see that families have the knowledge and skills needed to raise healthy, safe and resilient children. The program aims to ensure that: The caregiver-child relationship i ... more

Essential obstetric and newborn care

Anne-Sophie Coutin, et al. Médecins sans Frontières MSF (2019) C1
Essential obstetric and newborn care is designed as a tool to help protect mothers and their children in adverse environments. It is intended for midwives, doctors with obstetrics training, and heal ... more
Background paper for the Oslo Summit on Education for Development. This paper covers the four topics of the Oslo Summit: investment in education, quality of learning, education in emergencies and ... more
Includes a Special Report on the Financial and Personal Benefits of Early Diagnosis 2018 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures is a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. Background and context for interpretating the data are con ... more

Disability Inclusive Get Ready Guidebook

USAID Atullya Foundation (2021) CC
Due to Nepal’s difficult geographic structure, rapid urbanization, varied groundwater level, and increasing population the country is prone to earthquakes, floods, landslides, fires, lightning, hailstone, drought, epidemic, and other disasters. These disasters cause a huge loss of li ... more
Weekly Epidemiological Record No 9, 2022, 97, 61–80 This position paper supersedes the 2016 publication, “Malaria vaccine: WHO position paper-2016.”1 It includes the updated WHO recommendations on the wider use of the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine for the reduction of malaria morbidity and mortality ... more
An estimated 253 million people live with vision impairment: 36 million are blind and 217 million have moderate to severe vision impairment. 81% of people who are blind or have moderate or severe vi ... more
Draft Working Discussion Paper
Part of the CBM Prevention Toolkit on “How to Improve the Health and Development of your Child”

Ageing & Disablility In Humanitarian Response

Waqas Ashfaq Qureshi Ageing and Disability Task Force (ADTF) (2011) C2
A Resource Book of Inclusive Practices
A booklet on how CHWs were addressing eye health across Africa based on desk research and a survey in 23 countries
INEE pocket gu ide to inclusive education. This guide is aimed at anyone working to provide, manage or support education services in emergencies and complements the INEE Minimum Standards. The Pocket Guide to Inclusive Education outlines usefu ... more
Fourth Edition
Prevention, early identification, assessment and intervention in low- and middle-income countries | A Review | CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Prevention, Assessment and Management
This document contains guidance for strengthening the disability inclusiveness of MHPSS responses and programmes in emergency settings. It is intended to supplement the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support ... more
This overview of the current situation summarizes the links between nutrition and disability and identifies potential areas where the global partnership may influence the global agenda
Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2017 Mar 15; 5(1):37-41.
Guidance Note A DFID practice paper
These Guidelines are intended to provide knowledge to the treating ophthalmologists, pediatricians, ocular oncologists, pediatric oncologists, and general physicians to arrive at an early diagnosis of retinoblastoma in the settings of district hospi ... more
UNICEF's global work on statistics and monitoring the situation of children & women
Innocenti Digest No. 13
Q3: What approaches are available to enable non-specialized health care providers to identify children with intellectual disabilities, including intellectual disabilities due to specific causes?

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

Natasha Graham UNICEF, UNESCO, UIS (2014)
Paper commissioned for Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children
This study examines over 20 years of CBR implementation in Nepal. It includes an overview of CBR interventions, provides analysis of approaches and activities in terms of impact and sustainability a ... more

Type 2 diabetes in adults: management

National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICE) National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICE) (2022) CC2
This guideline covers care and management for adults (aged 18 and over) with type 2 diabetes. It focuses on patient education, dietary advice, managing cardiovascular risk, managing blood glucose levels, and identifying and managing long-term complications.
Accessed Sept. 2, 2015
A national overview with a case study from Tanahun district. The overall aims of this study are (1) to assess the extent to which social protection systems in Nepal address the needs of people with disabilities; and (2) to identify and document elem ... more
There are social and environmental barriers faced by persons with disabilities which have been reported in literature. In discussing these barriers, attention is yet to be given to the support from ... more
Children's Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization
This report is from the National study on living conditions among people with disabilities carried out in Nepal in 2014-2015. The study was carried out as a household survey with two-stage stratif ... more
The Community Action Research on Disability (CARD) programme in Uganda embraced and modified the EDR approach, recognising the need for including people with disability in the research process from ... more
Information Booklet for Parents
A step towards implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) related to personal mobility.
An Easy-Reference Guidebook for Healthcare Providers In Developed and Developing Countries

Count me in! Inclusive WASH in Ethiopia

OpenWASH The Open University UKWaterAid (2018) C1
This Module, Count me in! Inclusive WASH in Ethiopia, was prepared by Ethiopian authors with support from The Open University UK. It was first published i ... more

A human rights-based approach to disability in development - Entry points for development organisations

Ilse Worm Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) & Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) (2012) C2
This study has been produced jointly by Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, a federally owned enterprise, implementing development programmes on behalf of the German Government, and CBM, a non-governmental organisation. Accordingly, its aim is to offer guidance to those ... more
The Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre | University College London | 4 Taviton Street | London WC1H OBT | United Kingdom| Principal Investigator: Dr Raymond Lang | Email: r.lang@ucl.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)207 679 1519 | Research Commissioned by the Southern African Federation ... more
Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012 Reports from Kenya, Sierra Leone, China and Sri Lanka
This report details the challenges many women and girls with disabilities face throughout the justice process: reporting abuse to the police, obtaining appropriate medical care, having complaints investigated, navigating the court system, and getting adequate compensation.
November 3, 2009https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000176 PLoS Med 6(11): e1000176. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000176
Position Statement Diabetes Care2018;42(Suppl. 1):S1–S194.
(New 2015) Scoping question: Within the context of mental health and developmental assessment of children and youth, what are the effective strategies for detecting maltreatment?
A national overview with a case study from Cam Le district
The overall aims of this study are (1) to assess the extent to which social protection systems in Vietnam address the needs of people with disabilities; and (2) to identify and document ... more
An information package for school staff
The purpose of this document is to share good practices and processes concerning the inclusion of disability issues in HIV policy and programming, drawing on specific experiences in Senegal, Ethiopi ... more
Today there are Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) programmes in a large number of countries. In many countries, the CBR approach is a part of the national rehabilitation services. However, there ... more

Management of mental health disorders in HIV-positive patients

G. Jonsson; N. Davies; C. Freeman; et al. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society; AOSIS Publishing (2013) C2
Guideline SAJHIVMED DECEMBER 2013, Vol. 14, No. 4
Bridging the Gap
This predominantly qualitative research on disability and development in Myanmar was conducted between August 2011 and February 2012, in three commercial centres of Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi. St ... more
The objective of this paper is to summarise and critically review the available data about onchocerciasis in Mozambique, in order to report epidemiological and clinical aspects related to the diseas ... more
Trachoma is an eye infection that for thousands of years caused many people to go blind across all continents. As the result of development and targeted interventions, trachoma is now limited to an estimated 57 countries, often affecting the poorest populations of the world. Today, more than 2 mill ... more
BioMed Central; BMC International Health and Human Rights (2016) 16:20; DOI 10.1186/s12914-016-0094-y
A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN PUBLIC HEALTH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA

Situation Assessment of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Bangladesh 2016

Valerie Karr et al. Institute for Community Inclusion at University of Massachusetts (2016) C1
The purpose of the situation assessment was to execute a situation analysis for Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorder (NDD) in Bangladesh. The situation assessment covers the following areas: a review of the scale and prevalence of NDD with trends of ... more
SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Autoimmune Diseases Volume 2011, Article ID 937586, 5 pages doi:10.4061/2011/937586