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  A bank uses its networks to create career options for persons with visual impairments

  A Corporate Advisory Council was formed of managers who help to create jobs and promote the employability of people with visual impairments. Local NGOs created an integrated platform to improve the listing and hiring process. Between 2013 and 2016, 388 people were supported and 250 were successfully employed.
  Standard Chartered Bank, Taiwan, Project “Seeing is Believing”, Taiwan

• Public-Private-Partnership connecting jobseekers with disabilities to employers

  The aim of the initiative is to build partnerships to connect people with disabilities with meaningful, livelihood-securing jobs. Jobseekers are assisted in their employment goals, while companies are connected with pre-screened, qualified candidates and are provided with support for diversity hiring.
  MOPD NYC - Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities New York, NYC: ATWORK, United States of America

• A co-working model of employment

  CHANGE is an international human rights organisation run by disabled people and employs people with learning disabilities as equal employees. They develop accessible resources, deliver training and run projects. The "Co-working Model of Employment" ensures that two people share responsibility and work together in an inclusive way.
  CHANGE, A co-working model of employment, United Kingdom

• The professionalisation of empowerment

  Peer counsellors have their own experience of disability and advise similarly affected people to enable them to take control of their own lives at home, in the community and at work. For the first time in the world, the province of Upper Austria has established peer counselling as a social profession.
  Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Department of Social Affairs, The professionalisation of empowerment, Austria

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  The fully accessible art museum

  MoMA offers a variety of programmes and services to ensure the accessibility of the museum and its collection,including tours for visually impaired that provide the opportunity to touch and experience the art or programmes for visitors with dementia. Approximately 60,000 people made use of the offer from 2014 to 2016.
  MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, United States of America

• Inclusive care worker training

  Within the scope of the EU project "Inclusive Care Worker", an inclusive teaching model for qualification in the social sector and support modules for a successful integration into the labour market were developed. It enables persons with learning difficulties and disabilities to choose a care profession.
  Lebenshilfe Graz and Surroundings - Voitsberg, Inclusive care worker training, Austria

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  A company employing 90 per cent persons with disabilities in online services

  Genashtim Innovative Learning Pte Ltd., GENASHTIM INNOVATIVE LEARNING, Singapore

• Effective employment services

  Rather than focusing on a person’s functional limitations through work capability assessments, Access to Work focuses on which supports or work environment enable individuals with disabilities to work. Part of this is the "right to control" giving persons with disabilities control over the budgets allocated to them.
  UK Department of Work and Pensions, Office for Disability Issues, Effective employment services, United Kingdom

• Job support for persons with intellectual disabilities

  Centum DZWONI is a countrywide initiative, started in 2006, and was the first "non-public" employment agency in Poland. It aims at finding positions in the open labour market for persons with intellectual disabilities. The services are free and include counselling, training, practice and individual support by a job coach.
  Centrum DZWONI - Center for Vocational Counseling and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities, Job support for persons with intellectual disabilities, Poland

• The transportation and consultancy service enables young persons with disabilities to participate actively in society. The association helps the students to handle bureaucratic tasks and receive exemption from tuition fees.

  Through this service young persons with disabilities are enabled to participate actively in society and develop their potential. The service is free of charge and resulted in an increased number of students with disabilities, full participation in academic life as well as enhancement of their visibility in the local community.
  Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro, Transport service for students in Montenegro, Montenegro