How The World Bank Responds To Disability.

The Bank's mission of reducing poverty can not be achieved without meeting the needs of disabled people. The Bank's work in this area is guided by three factors:
Multi-sectoral approach Integrating disabled people into society involves a strategy that often cuts across sectors, since a person's disability can affect all aspects of their lives, often in an interrelated way.

Analytical expertise This area of disability and development is rather new and not entirely understood. Analyzing the impact of disability on development and building the economic case for including disability in development programs and policies are other strengths of the Bank.
Leadership Role The Bank has already taken a leading role in some areas of education, urban management, and media via training courses and operations. How Is The Bank Integrating Disability Into Its Mainstream Development Work?
Overall, from 2002-2006, 4% of all World Bank projects and 5% of new lending commitments were projects with a disability component ($4.8 bn). In July 2004, 10% of projects in Europe & Central Asia had had a Disability Component. About 6% of analytical work included some focus on disability.
To integrate disability into its operational design and implementation, the Bank is working in three key areas, in addition to deepening its research work:
Building Internal and External Capacity This is being pursued through missions to field offices and staff in donor and client countries; the funding of a variety of training, research, and operational activities through several sources, including the Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development, the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program, and the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development.
Regional Working Groups With initial funding from the World Bank President's contingency fund, each region has established ongoing cross-sectoral working groups which have conducted portfolio reviews and developed action plans for integrating disability into their current and future operations.
International Partnerships The Bank has played a key role in the creation of the Global Partnership for Disability and Development, a multi-donor trust fund intended to bring all of the major development players together with governments, civil society, universities, employers, and foundations to develop capacity for and share knowledge on inclusion.

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