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  Online job-platform for persons with disabilities in a sub-Saharan country

  The National Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya, launched the NVPWD Career Portal in 2020 with support from mobile operator Safaricom. This offers personalized job recommendations and learning opportunities, and by mid-2022 had been used by more than 5,100 job seekers and 327 employers.
  Safaricom PLC, NCPWD Career Portal, Kenya

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  Postgraduate studies in disability law and policy

  The DLPP recruits students with and without disabilities from the United States and abroad, offering them the opportunity to specialize in the field of international and domestic disability law. DLPP students may also work as interns during the summer or full-time for a semester at disability law-related offices.
  Syracuse University, College of Law, Disability Law and Policy Program (DLPP), United States of America

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  Large-scale campaign to identify and enrol children with disabilities in Senegal

  APPEHL follows a multilevel approach to make mainstream schools more inclusive. For children and parents, the programme includes awareness raising measures and training in dealing with impairments. For schools, learning materials are adapted and teachers are trained by teachers from the special education sector.
  Humanity & Inclusion Senegal, Full Participation of Children with Disabilities in Education Programme (APPEHL), Senegal

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  Grassroots self-advocacy for children through self-created comics

  Grassroots Comics enables children with disabilities to express their personality and opinions through hand-drawn comics. The children receive four days of training and then draw their own story on paper. Each year, more than 1,000 Grassroots Comics are created by children with disabilities in India.
  CHAI - Catholic Health Association of India, Grassroots Comics, India

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  Empowering non-formal schools in slum areas

  The Action Foundation (TAF) is a youth-led NGO supporting children with physical disabilities and their families. In 2015, TAF launched the project targeting low-cost, non-formal schools in poor residential neighbourhoods. Since 2015, more than 1,600 children with and without disabilities have benefitted from the project.
  The Action Foundation Kenya, Promoting Early Childhood Care and Education, Kenya

• Finnish anti-bullying programme for schools going international

  With KiVa Anti-Bullying, the University of Turku has developed a comprehensive, research-based programme to reduce the spread and negative consequences of bullying in secondary schools. The programme has been used in schools nationwide since 2009 and was also available in six other countries in 2016.
  University of Turku, Finland

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  Training teachers in inclusive techniques and learning materials

  Regional Action for Inclusive Education (RAISE) works with local NGO partners that act as regional resource centres for inclusive education. These centres promote the participation of children with disabilities in 78 government primary schools and are to become autonomous centres of expertise on Inclusive Education.
  Light for the World Austria, RAISE Project, India

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  Collaborative Creation of the Ten-Year Action Plan

  The Plan for Inclusion is the result of extensive community consultations involving up to 1,150 people and leading to 4,500 proposals. These will be addressed by advisory groups, which include people with disabilities, their families, employers, financial institutions, non-profit organizations, and the technology and business sectors.
  British Columbia Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, Canada

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  Changing a whole country´s approach on children´s institutions

  Together with the Moldovan Government, Lumos has promoted an integrated policy and programme of deinstitutionalisation. Since launching the programme in 2007, the number of children in institutions has dropped by 86 per cent and since 2010, more than 6,000 children have been admitted to inclusive mainstream school.
  Lumos Foundation, Moldova

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  Returning children to their families and an inclusive environment

  Based on an inclusive policy and the programme, children with disabilities were allowed to leave residential care and return to their communities while receiving education in a mainstream school. Between 2007 and 2013 the number of children in institutions could be reduced from more than 11,500 to less than 4,000.
  Lumos Foundation Moldova, Moldova