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  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

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  An Accessibility Programme for Electoral Processes

  To make elections more accessible, the programme includes measures such as by placing electoral wards in accessible buildings, providing electoral staff that can communicate in sign-language, electronic voting machines accessible for blind voters, and saving the parking spots closer to the voting facilities for persons with disabilities.
  Superior Electoral Court of Brazil, Electoral Justice Accessibility Programme, Brazil

• Funding for running for an elected office

  The Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund, established in 2012, offers individual grants to persons with disabilities who wish to put themselves forward as a candidate or for running their election campaign, but who incur additional costs associated with their disability. As of 2014 the Fund had supported 50 candidates.
  UK Government Equalities Office, ACCESS TO ELECTED OFFICE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE FUND, United Kingdom

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  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

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  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

• The 'Accessibility Guide' illustrates low or no-cost solutions for companies to allow persons with disabilities accessibility and employment. It creates inclusive employment policies and promotes inclusive businesses.

  The guide offers low to no-cost solutions that give persons with disabilities barrier-free access to the workplace. To generate effective and affordable solutions, employers are trained to interact with the surrounding community and with the persons with disabilities to define and build the accessibility solutions together.
  Trust for the Americas, Collected ideas for access to the workplace, Mexico

• Employment of the hearing impaired

  Sabooj is a French communications agency. In 2012 it was the only one of 500 so called "Entreprises Adaptées" (EA), with special facilities for providing employment for disabled. More than 80% of Sabooj's workers have disabilities. , i.e. hearing impairment. Sabojee has 70 clients of whom 75% are big companies.
  Sabooj, Employment of the hearing impaired, France

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  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

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  A catering service training and vocation programme

  Floare de Cireş is a catering service in the town of Razeni in Modava founded in 2012 to give disadvantaged young people a chance to get their first job. In 2015 the project was extended to include a workplace training programme, which more than 100 people with disabilities had completed by 2020.
  Eco-Razeni Association, Floare de Cireş, Moldova

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  Assigning job coaches for young jobseekers with intellectual disabilities

  Job coaches assist young people with an intellectual disability or autism to find paid employment. Job seekers contribute to the planning and delivery of the programme. Between 2018 and 2020, 69 people were registered and 37 people have been placed in supported employment jobs.
  COPE Foundation, Ability@Work, Ireland