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• Labour integration in rural areas

  The Siro Group is one of the largest industrial groups in the food sector in Spain. It has implemented an Integration Policy for people with disabilities in all workplaces that exceeds the legal framework. Specifically, it has 16 factories located in rural areas with 3,724 employees. 13% of the workforce are persons with disabilities.
  Cerealto Siro Foods, Labour integration in rural areas, Spain

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  Major outdoor park developments based on Universal Design principles

  ACTServices Inc. is a US-based accessibility consulting firm. Since 2010, ACTServices has made two local parks accessible: Forest Glen Park (Illinois) and The Gathering Place (Oklahoma), considering especially children’s ability to experience the park and nature in general.
  ACT Services Inc., Universal Design in Outdoor Parks, United States of America

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  Municipality-funded work coaches for people with disabilities

  The service provides individual work coaching for people with disabilities. It is free of charge and aims to find full or part-time employment for its users. The programme has had between 240 and 273 users per year for the last three years. The number of those who found a job increased to 342 in 2019.
  City of Helsinki, Supported Employment Service, Finland

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  Making training centres accessible

  With the advice of Light for the World, Young Africa Mozambique has adapted their already existing training schedules by reducing the barriers to enable young people with disabilities to study with their peers. Two new accessible hostels were constructed to accommodate 128 young people, one existing hostel was renovated.
  Young Africa, Mozambique

• Disability-inclusive approach to bring families out of extreme poverty

  Since 2018 the project supports households in the cities of Kurigram and Chattogram. Participants receive rehabilitation services, including occupational therapy and counselling, and receive cash transfers to meet their basic needs. As of 2020, 1,447 households are being supported.
  Humanity & Inclusion France, Disability Inclusive Poverty Graduation, Bangladesh

• Sustained advocacy for promoting equality

  NCPEDP applies a multi-pronged approach and works simultaneously on five core issues, namely Awareness, Access, Education, Employment and Legislation. In each of these areas NCPEDP has been able to make a considerable impact with its sustained and focused effort, which in turn, has led to increased awareness and opportunities.
  Indian National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, Sustained advocacy for promoting equality, India

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  Online accessibility training for civil servants

  SENADIS, the National Disability Service of Chile, launched an online accessibility training programme for civil servants, called Preparados para Incluir, that offered three courses centred around accessibility, its legal framework, general principles, and access to ICT.
  SENADIS - National Service for the Disabled Chile, Preparados para Incluir (Ready to Include), Chile

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  Fighting unemployment from two sides: with training centres and by influencing legal frameworks

  4J sets up centres as a public-private partnership to provide vocational training for young people with disabilities from rural areas and places them in companies. Due to State Government participation in the programme, Y4J has been able to influence the legal framework towards pro-disability policies.
  Youth4Jobs Foundation, Centre for Persons with Disability Livelihoods (CPDL), India

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  Digital Accessibility Maturity Scorecard for companies

  Hassell Inclusion, a London-based digital accessibility consultancy, developed the Digital Accessibility Maturity Scorecard in 2020. It enables organizations to assess their digital accessibility performance against nine dimensions based on the principles of the ISO 30071 code.
  Hassell Inclusion Ltd., Scorecard for companies to self-assess their current practices in digital accessibility, United Kingdom

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  A city organizing weekly conversations in public spaces with citizens in sign language

  To support the dissemination of the Brazilian sign language Libras, the city of Curitiba created Conversation in Libras launched the Conversation in Libras programme, offering weekly face-to-face meetings in its public spaces that improve the interaction and communication in Libras, the Brazilian sign language.
  Curitiba City Hall, Conversation in Libras, Brazil