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              • People during an initial interview.

                A nationwide strategy to fight mental health issues

                Implementation starts with visits by a mental health service team to community leaders, local health care personnel, as well as to traditional healers to discuss existing practices and to gain their cooperation. This is followed by education and training to introduce modern mental health concepts and their advantages.
                Government of Bhutan, National Mental Health Programme, Bhutan

              • Child Psychologist Palak demonstrates the Wear Your Emotions teaching tool.

                A programme that creates neurodevelopmental profiles and customized education

                The service operates on a monthly subscription basis. Users connect with their assigned child psychologist through video and email to create development goals and individualized education plans. Supporting resources are sent to the client's home. More than 400 families used the service in its first year.
                Mom's Belief, India

              • Photo of Elisabeta Moldovan.

                A Biographical Graphic Novel Promoting Deinstitutionalization

                The story of Eli is inspiring greater independence for people with intellectual disabilities

                Published in 2017, Becoming Eli is the work of Dan Ungureanu and the first graphic novel to address institutional abuse suffered by children and adults, the majority with disabilities. Based on a true story of a young girl left in state care the book wants to show that with the right support deinstitutionalization is possible.
                Ceva de Spus Association, Gravis Novel Becoming Eli, Romania

              • Blind voter using iVote.

                A web-based platform allowing people with disabilities to vote remotely and on their own

                Scytl developed the iVote Core Voting System for New South Wales, Australia. By using a web-based platform or via a phone using the keypad blind voters and people with disabilities to vote online. Around 286,000 voters used the system in 2015, and it has been replicated in Western Australia as of 2017.
                Scytl, iVote programme, Australia

              • Three girls, Lara in the front and her twin sister and another girl in the back, are playing with pink ribbon.

                Universal design-based practices for public early childhood education

                The project promotes the use of accessible and inclusive teaching methods in public pre-school education based on the principles of Universal Design. Educators and families experience its theory and methods in the form of trainings and workshops, teachers also receive practical support in the classroom.
                Mais Diferencas - Inclusive Education and Culture, Projeto Brincar, Brazil

              • Children playing soccer.

                Promoting Inclusive Sports in Schools

                Working in close cooperation with the Special Olympics Austria, Inklusion Sport empowers youth and educators to promote social inclusion. Begun in 2004, they offer unified sport events, education and training in the Austrian state of Styria. Each year five physical education (PE) teachers receive training to become official advisers on inclusive sport.
                Basic Initiative for Sports and Inclusion, Austria

              • A father and his daughter are looking at information material at a information stall.

                Free online platform supporting families of children with intellectual disabilities

                The Nayi Disha Resource Centre offers a free online platform for families with children with developmental disabilities. Building on this, the NGO has developed a program to support caregivers with limited digital literacy by using resources such as WhatsApp as well as workshops, support groups or family events.
                Nayi Disha Resource Centre, Online platform for empowering parents of children with intellectual disabilities, India

              • A little boy grins while is stepping over barriers during physical exercise.

                Training educators and municipalities in inclusive physical education

                Participants identify barriers to the inclusion of children with disabilities in their schools, and design and implement their own inclusive physical education activities involving staff, students, families, and the wider community. The in-person course was held from 2013 to 2016, in 2018 an online version was created.
                Rodrigo Mendes Institute, Open Doors to Inclusion, Brazil

              • Mother claps her hands while her child is playing with toys attending early intervention therapy.

                Comprehensive Inclusive Education for indigenous communities

                ADISA is an NGO providing community-based Inclusive Education to children with disabilities from the indigenous community of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. The integrated programme involves teachers, parents, students and the community. The annual cost fort he programme is approximately USD 60,000.
                ADISA - Association of Parents and Friends of People with Disabilities, Inclusive Education Programme, Guatemala

              • Three women sit, while having a discussion in sign language live on Signs TV in front of UN sustainable goals posters.

                24-hour TV station broadcasting in sign language

                Signs TV broadcasts in sign language along with audio and voice, presenting informative, educational, and entertainment content with a focus on deaf culture and disability rights. In 2019 Signs TV had an estimated audience of 500,000 deaf people, 1.2 million with other disabilities and 1.5 million people who wanted to learn sign language.
                Signs Media Kenya Limited, Signs TV, Kenya