Apr 3, 2023 · One billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability. Persons with disabilities on average are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes than persons without disabilities, such as lower rates of education, worse health outcomes, less employment, and higher poverty levels.

Dec 3, 2019 · It is therefore encouraging to see disability inclusion is now a cross-cutting theme for the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries. To further promote disability inclusion, IDA19 calls for investments in disability-disaggregated data, differentiated interventions across sectors, and promoting ...

World Bank Group Commitments on Disability-Inclusion Development. Commitment 1: Inclusive Education. 1.1. Building on the objective of SDG 4 (“ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”), we aim to make all the World Bank financed projects/programs in education disability inclusive by 2025.

Dec 1, 2020 · During the Global Disability Summit in 2018, the World Bank announced a set of ten commitments on disability inclusion. These commitments include ensuring that all Bank education projects are disability-inclusive by 2025, increasing the number of staff with disabilities at the Bank, and promoting the Disability Inclusion and Accountability ...

1. COSP11 Side Session – Equity and Inclusion in Education for Children with Disabilities. The program supported a side event on Equity and Inclusion in Education at the 11th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP11). The session focused on discussion around supporting ...

Without disability inclusion, the development and prosperity of Latin American and Caribbean societies will be unsustainable, since a larger portion of the population will face barriers to work, use public space, exercise their right to vote, or live autonomously. Therefore, principles such as accessibility, reasonable accommodation, and ...

Jun 11, 2019 · To end poverty and boost shared prosperity, we must leave no one behind. At the World Bank, we’re working to build inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities for all by breaking down barriers to full social and economic inclusion of persons with disabilities.

Dec 2, 2021 · Approximately 85 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean have some type of disability, accounting for 14.7 percent of the total population, according to a new World Bank report. The report discusses the physical and legal barriers of persons with disabilities and the need to further efforts for the inclusion of this group to build a more prosperous, resilient …

Mar 5, 2022 · More than a billion persons globally, about 15 percent of the world’s population, are estimated to have a disability. Most of them live in low- and middle-income countries. This number is expected to increase. However, the lack of data on disability contributes to the invisibility of persons with disabilities. Including persons with disabilities and expanding equitable …

The Collecting Data on Disability Inclusion course provides an understanding of, who persons with disabilities are, measuring different types of disabilities using international standards, collecting data for different demographics and for different parameters, and analyzing the data.