- Making it Work (MIW) is a global multi-stakeholder initiative supporting the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
- Source is an international information support center designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.
- The U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs, currently coordinated by Handicap International, is a coalition of thousands of people and U.S. non-governmental organizations working to convince the U.S. government to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions.
What We Do
Inclusion
We work with people with disabilities to promote their inclusion in education, sports and cultural activities, as well as access to employment. We lobby governments to ensure they are offered equal opportunities.
In many developing countries, 98 percent of children with disabilities do not attend school and 80 percent of people with disabilities live on less than $1 a day. We work to enable people with disabilities to live as full citizens with their families and in their communities, thus facilitating equal opportunities.
People with disabilities represent 10 percent of the world's population
Eight out of 10 people with disabilities live in developing countries where conflicts and poverty constantly put their quality of life in jeopardy. Although they have limited access to health care, education, employment, transport and leisure activities, their needs are very often not taken into account in international development projects.
New films: "Six questions on inclusive education"
This new series of films presents the opinions of Handicap International staff and partners working on the inclusion of children with disabilities in education in developing countries.
Find out more here.
