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  A broad, low-cost, and comprehensive model to create accessible schools

  The aim of HOPE is to ensure and to increase the school enrollment of children with and without disabilities in rural areas. This is mainly done through improving school accessibility and by establishing community-based rehabilitation centres, where children with disabilities are readied for school.
  Save the Children International, HOPE, Bangladesh

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  Focusing on employer needs and creating hundreds of jobs for young people with intellectual disabilities

  The SETI Centre was founded by Caritas Egypt to provide vocational preparation and training to youth with intellectual disabilities. From its beginnings until 2016, the SETI Centre has placed over 500 youth with disabilities in various types of jobs as well as supported 300 of them to start their own businesses.
  SETI Centre for Training and Studies on Disability, Egypt

• Entrepreneurship training and support for persons with disabilities

  The programme supports the self-employment of people with disabilities. Launched in 2018, the project was implemented in seven provinces by 2020. Of the 502 young entrepreneurs who received support after start-up, 360 are succeeding as entrepreneurs and 12 have secured sustainable employment.
  KFF - Kadiwaku Family Foundation, Inclusive Entrepreneurship for Persons with Disabilities, Congo

• Post-secondary inclusion: a path to employment

  IPSE develops inclusive post-secondary education opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities. The initiative has a proven track record, resulting in vastly superior rates of employment for adults with developmental disabilities in a broad array of jobs and careers with less dependency on human services.
  Alberta Association for Community Living, Post-secondary inclusion: a path to employment, Canada

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  An inclusive post-secondary programme for students with intellectual disabilities

  This eight-semester programme allows students with intellectual disabilities to create and study a personalized curriculum. Students of teacher training assist them and take on the role of tutors. The programme supports the preparation of students for the labour market, while the teacher trainees receive credits towards their studies.
  Pedagogical College Salzburg, BLuE University Programme, Austria

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  Support programme for young people leaving school

  WALK PEER is a five-year model. In the first two years, young people while they are still at school are guided and trained on topics such as employability, entrepreneurship and transition. Transition is the main topic for years three and four. In the final year, the focus is entirely on a good start of their professional life.
  WALK - Inclusive Employment Services, WALK Peer programme, Ireland

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  Strengthening electoral systems to be inclusive and accessible

  The Election Access Program published the first manual, Equal Access, that provides government and civil society with guidance on how to ensure that persons with disabilities have a voice in political life. IFES also developed an election access observation checklist and trained over 700 people in 7 countries to be access observers.
  IFES - International Foundation for Electoral Systems, United States of America

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  Textbooks in electronic, audio and video formats for mainstream primary schools

  In 2013, UNICEF launched a project across Montenegro to produce DAISY-Textbooks and make them available in mainstream primary schools. DAISY-Textbooks have visual and audio options enabling children with disabilities to follow more easily and to study alongside their peers. In 2019, 70 schools were already involved.
  UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund, DAISY Textbooks, Montenegro

• Using iPads to create multiple information channels

  The project developed interactive textbooks on vocational subjects designed to include students with learning disabilities, and that can be used on iPad. The subject matter is presented in multiple ways and offers a variety of learning styles. The project also offers customized tools to help students with dyslexia.
  CLE - Leonardo Education Center, Italy

• Escola de Gente is a theatre project that works on the full inclusion of persons with disabilities not only by enabling them to visit and enjoy theatre, but also by actively participating in creating an inclusive culture by publishing all kind of accessible material and advocating for an inclusive education system.

  Escola de Gente enables actors and audience members with and without disabilities to participate in and enjoy theatre. The stories told on stage address themes like discrimination and inclusion. Descriptive subtitling, sign language interpreters, audio description, programs in Braille and multimedia materials play an essential part.
  Escola de Gente - Communication in inclusion, Cultural inclusion through accessible theatre, Brazil