Resources

2016 Zero Project Analysis on Early Childhood Intervention

Zero Project Analysis – Armenia 

Zero Project Analysis – Bulgaria

Zero Project Analysis – Bulgaria 2

Zero Project Analysis – Croatia

Zero Project Analysis – Greece 

Zero Project Analysis – Ireland 

Zero Project Analysis – Moldova

Zero Project Analysis – Slovakia 

Innovative Policies 2019

• Mexico: New guidelines are making Mexican elections accessible (Accessible Word Version)
• Paraguay: Increasing voter accessibility in Paraguay (Accessible Word Version)
• UK: Empowering Individuals in their Right to Vote (Accessible Word Version)
• Finland: A disability card to support equal access  (Accessible Word Version)
• Bhutan: A nationwide strategy to fight mental health issues (Accessible Word Version)
• Brazil: An accessibility programme for electoral processes (Accessible Word Version)
• Canada: Collaborative Creation of the ten-year action plan (Accessible Word Version)
• Ecuador: Co-creating new regulations with local governments (Accessible Word Version)
• Georgia: Tactile ballot guides for blind voters (Accessible Word Version)
• Canada: An accessibility implementation plan for provincial elections (Accessible Word Version)

Innovative Practices 2019

• Moldova: A holistic approach enables people to live in the community (Accessible Word Version)
• Turkey: A ballot template for the blind (Accessible Word Version)
• Botswana: Affordable hearing aids through solar technology (Accessible Word Version)
• Italy: Therapy IT-Platform improves motor function in young people with cerebral palsy – Accessible Word Version
• Singapore: Learn, try and test assistive technology (Accessible Word Version)
• Romania: A biographical novel promoting deinstitutionalisation (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: Fighting stigma through Hollywood and jobs creation (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: Improving the criminal justice system for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• Spain: Incorporating universal design into home building (Accessible Word Version)
• Egypt: Multiple tailored solutions offer physical and financial independence (Accessible Word Version)
• India: Social platform tailored for people with disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• Honduras: Strengthening the independent living movement through guidance, training and free legal advice (Accessible Word Version)
• Cambodia: Leadership programme for women with disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• PRA19 1269 CAN – Accessible Word Version
• Ghana: Five-year plan for mental health care in rural areas (Accessible Word Version)
• Sweden: Study circles for persons with intellectual disabilities to engage in voting (Accessible Word Version)
• Australia: Electoral inclusion campaign for people with intellectual disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• United Kingdom: Announce your visit and special request to stores and public services (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: Enabling people with disabilities to vote from home and without assistance (Accessible Word Version)
• Cambodia: Training disability representatives to work with local district officials (Accessible Word Version)
• Australia: Reviewing and planning individual supported living arrangements (Accessible Word Version)
• Kazakhstan: A home, a café and employment to promote deinstitutionalization (Accessible Word Version)
• India: A programme that creates neurodevelopmental profiles and customized education (Accessible Word Version)
• South Africa: A sign language app, dictionary and learning tool (Accessible Word Version)
• Indonesia: Increasing access to health and education services for children (Accessible Word Version)
• Israel: Supported housing for women with psychosocial disabilities and sexual trauma (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: Supporting DPOs in six countries to bring the UN CRPD to life (Accessible Word Version)
• Serbia: Person centred assistance and accommodation in communal housing (Accessible Word Version)
• Mexico: Young volunteers as agents for social inclusion (Accessible Word Version)
• Malawi: Increasing political participation through targeted lobbying on many levels (Accessible Word Version)
• Ecuador: Training persons with intellectual disabilities to be self-advocates (Accessible Word Version)
• United Kingdom: The first mobile bathroom for people with complex physical disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• Bosnia & Herzegovina: Housing and person-centred support for persons with intellectual disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• Romania: Preparing people with psychosocial and mental disabilities to live in their own homes (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: Bringing dance and artistic expression to people with and without disabilities worldwide (Accessible Word Version)
• Lebanon: Empowerment programmes for youth with disabilities involving their families and communities (Accessible Word Version)
• Colombia: Promoting the sexual and reproductive rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• Australia: Using technology to increase autonomy (Accessible Word Version)
• Brazil: Training young leaders in accessibility and inclusion (Accessible Word Version)
• India: Strategic lobbying and engagement with government to push for national disability legislation (Accessible Word Version)
• UK: An identity card to promote fair treatment for brain injury survivors encountering the criminal justice system (Accessible Word Version)
• Cambodia: Introduction of the personal assistance model (Accessible Word Version)
• Ireland: Philanthropy and government combining to create national disability service reform (Accessible Word Version)
• Austria: Promoting inclusive sports in schools (Accessible Word Version)
• Japan: A dedicated TV channel for the hearing impaired (Accessible Word Version)
• Vietnam: A depression management programme and microloans for women (Accessible Word Version)
• United Kingdom: Changing a whole country’s approach on children’s institutions (Accessible Word Version)
• Sweden: Personal Ombudsmen Enhance Self-Determination (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: Creating a Community of People with Paralysis (Accessible Word Version)
• Israel: Providing meaningful volunteer work for students with disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: A step-by-step toolkit to monitor voter participation (Accessible Word Version)
• Libya: Capturing and distributing critical election-related sign language (Accessible Word Version)
• Canada: Enabling people with disabilities to stay in their homes and communities (Accessible Word Version)
• Spain: Raising awareness on the right to vote (Accessible Word Version)
• Australia: A web-based platform allowing people with disabilities to vote remotely and on their own (Accessible Word Version)
• Israel: Demonstrating supported decision-making to change national guardianship (Accessible Word Version)
• Germany: Mobile app providing captioning and audio description in cinemas (Accessible Word Version)
• Moldova: Using theatre in schools to address discrimination against persons with disabilities (Accessible Word Version)
• Israel: Pioneering a personal budget model as part of national social services (Accessible Word Version)
• Austria: An inclusive international volunteer programme (Accessible Word Version)
• Nepal: Engaging persons with disabilities in all levels of politics (Accessible Word Version)
• Israel: An app for orientation in open and closed spaces (Accessible Word Version)
• Estonia: Service IT-platform available in several European countries (Accessible Word Version)
• Austria: Bilingual classes supporting families to learn sign language together  (Accessible Word Version)
• USA: An airport rehearsal programme for people with disabilities, families and staff (Accessible Word Version)
• Lebanon: Disability-led centres providing a range of services for independent living (Accessible Word Version)

Innovative Policies 2018

• Canada: Allowing for copyright exceptions to make books accessible for the blind (English, Word)
• Canada: Towards an accessible Province (English, Word)
• Colombia: Making the cinema accessible for all throughout Colombia (English, Word)
• European Union: Minimum standards of websites and mobile applications by the public sector in all 28 EU-countries (English, Word)
• France: The Accessibility Strategy of Grenoble (English, Word)
• Norway: Towards a universally designed city of Oslo in 2025 (English, Word)
• Paraguay: Standards for physical accessibility in Paraguay  (English, Word)
• South Africa: Accessible public transport strategies for 13 major municipalities (English, Word)
• Spain: Court verdicts and summonses in easy language (English, Word)
• Spain: Towards a global voluntary framework for accessible tourism (English, Word)
• Sri Lanka: Effectively creating accessible buildings in rural, less developed areas (English, Word)
• Uganda: Binding and effective laws for the construction of accessible school buildings (English, Word)
• United Kingdom: ITU standard on indoor audio navigation system for the blind (English, Word)
• United Arab Emirates: Universal Accessibility Strategy for the whole of Dubai (English, Word)
• United States – European Union: Harmonization of ICT standards across the Atlantic (English, Word)

Innovative Practices 2018

• Afghanistan: Making schools accessible for children with physical disabilities in Afghanistan (English, Word)
• Austria: Online accessibility self-check tool for companies (English, Word)
• Austria: Bank employees provide sign language services to customers (English, Word)
• Austria: National news agency publishing news in easy-language (English, Word)
• Austria: Restaurant menu reading app for persons with visual impairment (English, Word)
• Austria: Easy language as a key to the exhibition experience (English, Word)
• Bangladesh: Mainstreaming Children with Disability in Bangladesh (English, Word)
• Belgium: Itinerary and walking maps for visitors with Disabilities (English, Word)
• Belgium: Comprehensive database of accessibility features in mobile devices and Smart TVs (English, Word)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Collaboration among museums in the Balkans to develop accessibility (English, Word)
• Canada: Accessibility assessments of urban areas using 114 indicators (English, Word)
• Chile: Outdoor and indoor orientation for people who are blind (English, Word)
• Chile: Planning and building accessible cities, simplified (English, Word)
• China: Archive and search engine for Asian sign languages (English, Word)
• Colombia: Video-sign language service throughout the Country (English, Word)
• Ecuador: Wheelchair-accessible tours in Amazonia, the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu (English, Word)
• Egypt: Crowd-sourced reviews on 1,000 sites across Egypt (English, Word)
• Germany: Billing information and customer support in simple language (English, Word)
• Germany: Rating the accessibility of buildings using a well-known seal System (English, Word)
• Germany: Buddy service for jointly attending cultural Events (English, Word)
• Hungary: Accessible equipment for children´s playgrounds (English, Word)
• India: Mobile phone-based information sharing service about accessible opportunities in rural India (English, Word)
• India: A ‘buddy’ programme for travelers with and without Disabilities (English, Word)
• India: Providing free adaptations and prosthetics for amputees and persons with mobility issues (English, Word)
• India: Easy access to news for persons with Disabilities (English, Word)
• Indonesia: Child Development Monitoring for Rural Areas (English, Word)
• Indonesia: Inclusive evacuation strategies following a tsunami, earthquake, or volcano eruption (English, Word)
• Ireland: An app reviewing the accessibility of locations by user’s “yes” and “no” (English, Word)
• Ireland: Trip Advisor-style accessibility mapping of venues, transport and Festivals (English, Word)
• Ireland: Building a national central bank on Universal Design principles (English, Word)
• Israel: Accessibility app for live shows (English, Word)
• Israel: Free technology helpline for blind or visually impaired (English, Word)
• Israel: International online audio-book library in Arabic language (English, Word)
• Israel: Vision device to understand texts and identify objects (English, Word)
• Israel: Access to Justice in Israel for people with complex communication difficulties (English, Word)
• Israel: Replicating fully accessible and inclusive playgrounds throughout the Country (English, Word)
• Israel: A sucessful business model to train service providers in accessibility (English, Word)
• Italy: Tactile paths giving voice commands via a smart stick and a mobile phone app (English, Word)
• Italy: Mapping the accessibility of vacation properties and itineraries (English, Word)
• Italy: Mobile application allowing deaf people to make phone calls without an Interpreter (English, Word)
• Japan: Sharing the accessibility information of points of interest using apps and crowd sourcing (English, Word)
• Japan: Connecting wheelchair-accessible maps with GPS tracking (English, Word)
• Lebanon: Two-year inclusive tourism project for tourist sites (English, Word)
• Mexico: Private company joins a university in training students in web accessibility (English, Word)
• Morocco: Improving Deaf Children’s Reading Through Technology (English, Word)
• Mozambique: Making training centres accessible (English, Word)
• Nepal: Disability-inclusive communities in remote Areas (English, Word)
• Nepal: Inclusive Post-Earthquake Reconstruction (English, Word)
• Norway: Making footpaths accessible for leisure and daily use (English, Word)
• Pakistan: Supporting businesses in creating accessible workplaces and infrastructure (English, Word)
• Spain: Shoe-shops, barrier-free for all (English, Word)
• Spain: An art exhibition making art accessible in very different ways (English, Word)
• Spain: Making e-mail communication accessible for persons with intellectual Disabilities (English, Word)
• Sweden: Comprehensive hotel accessibility strategy (English, Word)
• Togo: Large-scale access to health services in a low-income Country (English, Word)
• Turkey: Audio descriptions-app making movies accessible for the blind (English, Word)
• United Kingdom: Teaming up persons with learning disabilities or autism for leisure activities (English, Word)
• USA: The fully accessible art Museum (English, Word)
• USA: A community centre built on Universal Design principles (English, Word)
• USA: Creating bilingual storybooks in written and sign language (English, Word)
• USA: On-Demand Accessible Transportation in Chicago (English, Word)
• UDA: A free online ICT accessibility course, accessible by the blind and deaf (English, Word)
• USA: How to support your embassies in producing captioned Videos (English, Word)
• USA: The playful way to create accessibility maps (English, Word)
• USA: Online resource for parents of children with learning and attention issues (English, Word)
• USA: A comprehensive strategy to make Office 365 fully accessible (English, Word)
• USA: Teaching the clicking of tongue technique to navigate (English, Word)
• USA: How-To’ Guides and Resource Directory for parents and caregivers (English, Word)

Innovative Policies 2017

• Australia: One platform for all – from assistance to incentives for employers (English, pdf)
• Bangladesh, ILO: A target and a push for inclusive skills training and employment (English, pdf)
• Canada: Creating employer demand for inclusive hiring (English, pdf)
• Chile: Training and placing the vulnerable in Chile (English, pdf)
• Ecuador: All-Sector-Cooperation creating jobs in thousands of companies (English, pdf)
• Ecuador: Government supporting self-employment and microfinance (English, pdf)
• Egypt: A national cooperation to push employment in ICT (English, pdf)
• Malaysia: Returning Malaysians with acquired disabilities to work (English, pdf)
• Peru: Model promoting decent work for persons with all kinds of disabilities (English, pdf)
• Saudi Arabia: Quotas, support and subsidies for private employers (English, pdf)
• United States: State-wide, long-term inclusion in the open labour market (English, pdf)

Innovative Practices 2017

• Afghanistan: Government supporting community-led micro-enterprises (English, pdf)
• Armenia: A full chain of support from primary school to employment (English, pdf)
• Armenia: Large-scale, all-encompassing training and transition programme (English, pdf)
• Austria: Comprehensive support and jobs for persons with epilepsy (English, pdf)
• Austria: An all-encompassing service package leading to employment in the open labour market. (English, pdf)
• Austria: Sheltered workshops piloting ‘cooperations’ and the transition to the open labour market (English, pdf)
• Austria: Full-time, unlimited jobs in facility management (English, pdf)
• Bangladesh: Initiating microfinancing and microenterprises for a whole city sub-district (English, pdf)
• Bangladesh: A comprehensive training and transition model involving hundreds of partnerships (English, pdf)
• Belgium: 28-week employment training programme (English, pdf)
• Canada: Providing summer internships for young people with disabilities (English, pdf)
• Canada/India/Nepal/Bangladesh: Persuading employers that inclusive employment can support their business case (English, pdf)
• Chile: Large-scale rehabilitation project provided by an insurance company (English, pdf)
• Chile: A certification scheme creating job opportunities for young people with intellectual disabilities (English, pdf)
• Egypt: Large-scale support for employers who have to meet a quota of employees with disabilities (English, pdf)
• Egypt: Focusing on employer needs and creating hundreds of jobs for young people with intellectual disabilities (English, pdf)
• Ethiopia: Alternative ways for successful job applications (English, pdf)
• Germany: Being employed by a university for the duration of PhD study (English, pdf)
• Germany: A whole IKEA department run by persons with disabilities (English, pdf)
• Germany: Persons with intellectual disabilities working as university lecturers (English, pdf)
• India: Creating an inclusive strategy for a multinational company (English, pdf)
• India: Inclusive organic agriculture farming for all, with approximately half being persons with disabilities (English, pdf)
• India: Launching a specialized microfinance bank for women with disabilities (English, pdf)
• India: Jewellery production – creating jobs for persons with intellectual disabilities (English, pdf)
• India: Fighting unemployment with training centres and by influencing legal frameworks (English, pdf)
• Ireland: Hospital internships as a strong bridge to the open labour market (English, pdf)
• Ireland: Support programme for young people leaving school (English, pdf)
• Israel: Universal training and job services for persons with psychosocial disabilities (English, pdf)
• Israel: Two-year-transition period for young people with autism (English, pdf)
• Jamaica: Training professional baristas in the Caribbean (English, pdf)
• Lebanon/Palestine: Changing the hiring policies of companies leading to hundreds of new jobs for young people with disabilities (English, pdf)
• Lesotho: Placing teachers with disabilities in regular schools (English, pdf)
• Nepal: Felting and knitting skills as the key to self-employment (English, pdf)
• Nepal: Training and seed financing within local communities (English, pdf)
• Netherlands/Philippines: A “sales unit” to connect Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and the business world (English, pdf)
• Paraguay: How to successfully apply for jobs in the public and private sector (English, pdf)
• Romania: Offering the services of well-trained persons with intellectual disabilities to private-sector companies (English, pdf)
• Romania: A shortcut to the open labour market (English, pdf)
• Russia: Building bridges to multinationals and Russian companies (English, pdf)
• Singapore: A company employing 90 per cent persons with disabilities by structuring the work processes to accommodate them (English, pdf)
• South Africa: Jobs for adults with intellectual disabilities following intensive developmental and career path training (English, pdf)
• South Africa: A multifunctional hub towards the open labour market (English, pdf)
• Spain: Adding a university degree to job placement (English, pdf)
• Spain: A voluntary certificate for companies required to implement minimum standards on CSR and disability (English, pdf)
• Spain: Entrepreneurship training for persons with disabilities (English, pdf)
• Taiwan: A bank uses its networks to create career options for persons with visual impairments (English, pdf)
• Turkey: Employment in the open labour market for persons with Down Syndrome (English, pdf)
• Turkey: Online job-platform used by more than 10,000 jobseekers with disabilities (English, pdf)
• United Kingdom: People with intellectual disabilities as project coordinators (English, pdf)
• United Kingdom/Uganda: Jobs for the most marginalised people with disabilities (English, pdf)
• United Kingdom/Global: Encouraging a variety of approached in creating jobs for people with visual impairments (English, pdf)
• USA: Empowering school girls with disabilities (English, pdf)
• USA/Vietnam: IT training for people with disabilities (English, pdf)
• USA: Three internships to provide a variety of career options (English, pdf)
• USA: Providing a variety of career services for high school students with disabilities (English, pdf)
• Vietnam: Vocational training and meaningful jobs for persons who are blind or visually impaired (English, pdf)

Innovative Policies 2016

• Brazil: Brazil’s billion dollar National Plan for Inclusive Education
• Canada: Canada´s New Brunswick forbids segregated education
  
• Costa Rica: Boosting the employability of Costa Ricans with disabilities
  
• Estonia: Access to higher education in Estonia
  
• EU-USA: Transatlantic e-Accessibility standards cooperation
• Ghana: Inclusive Education rolled out throughout Ghana
• International: Mandatory minimum standards for education in emergencies
  
• Iraqi Kurdistan: Inclusive Education in post-war instability
  
• Ireland: Universal Design in Irish Tourism Services as a business case
  
• Italy: In Italy, students with disabilities are not segregated
  
• Montenegro: Changing exclusionary behaviour patterns through advocacy
  
• USA: Promoting school readiness and a head start for all
  

Innovative Practices 2016

• Armenia: Training the teachers and their trainers in Inclusive Education
• Australia: Developing indicators for Inclusive Education in the Pacific region
• Australia: Providing live transcripts of lessons and instant feedback to teachers
• Australia: Using pictures to promote health
• Australia: Providing a university experience for persons with intellectual disabilities
• Australia: Giving a voice to children with disabilities
• Austria: Creating smart accessible media using RoboBraille
• Austria: Preparing young people for real jobs in bakeries
• Austria: Easy-to-read newspaper articles, written by persons with learning difficulties
• Austria: An all-stakeholder approach towards Inclusive Education
• Austria: Preventing bullying against women with learning difficulties
• Austria: A tablet that creates Braille, graphics, maps and more
• Austria: Promoting innovative assistive technologies internationally
• Austria: A computer mouse steered with the mouth
• Austria: The sign language Avatar Project
• Bangladesh: Accessible learning materials for students with visual impairments
• Bangladesh: Creating a role model of Inclusive Education
• Bangladesh: A holistic approach toward Inclusive Education in Bangladesh
• Belgium: Bridging the gap to the ICT industry
• Belgium: Supporting teachers with comprehensive reports on pupil’s needs
• Belgium: Jobs in kindergartens and elder care for persons with intellectual disabilities
• Brazil: One children’s book in nine accessible formats
• Burkina Faso: Multi-stakeholder approach towards Inclusive Education in Burkina Faso
• Cambodia: Inclusive Education for Cambodian children who are blind or deaf
• Canada: A sign language curriculum especially for parents
• Canada: Supporting architects and urban planners to understand accessibility
• Finland: All you need to know to open the door to the labour market
• Finland: Finish anti-bullying programme for schools going international
• France: E-Learning for teachers, caregivers and families
• Germany: Moving step-by-step toward an inclusive university
• Germany: Persons with learning difficulties working as IT trainers
• Germany: New museum experiences for persons with learning difficulties
• Germany: Remote speech-to-text and sign language interpretation
• Hungary: English skills for persons with learning difficulties
• India: Indian campaign to educate visually-impaired children is going global
• India: Guidelines and toolkits to promote fully accessible schools
• India: Increasing diversity by increasing access to legal education
• India: Vocational training leading directly to jobs in the open labour market
• Ireland: Creating a more accessible world for deaf children in Ireland
• Israel: Accessible websites created “automatically”
• Israel: Teaching sign language to everyone in an entertaining way
• Italy: Using iPads to create multiple information channels
• Italy: Video-interpreting service for sign language and foreign languages
• Italy: Music as an education and communication tool for students with Autism
• Italy: Simulating a supermarket as a learning environment
• Jordan: Video emergency line for persons with hearing-impairments
• Kosovo: Creating inclusive pre-school institutions
• Luxembourg: Training careers, family members and staff via a web platform
• Macedonia and Serbia: Assistive technologies and teacher training in mainstream schools
• Mexico: How to teach students with and without disabilities equally
• Nepal: Accessible books for vision-impaired students using Android technology
• Netherlands: Using courts and litigation for the right to Inclusive Education
• Nicaragua: Creating communities for early childhood interventions
• Norway: Adding Universal Design in ICT student curricula
• Pakistan: Quality healthcare and counselling through video technology
• Rwanda: Access to education for refugee children with disabilities
• Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya: Inclusive vocational training and workplaces for youth with disabilities
• Serbia: An e-learning platform for audio and video learning materials
• South Africa: Finding employment by profound training
• South Africa: Improving speech by visualizing it
• South Africa: Stimulation kit and training for caregivers
• Spain: Teaching blind students in regular school classes
• Spain: Breaking down barriers to scientific knowledge
• Spain: Learning to manage one’s own personal finances
• Spain: Controlling the computer with eye movements
• Sweden: Using technology in the classroom to support all students 
• Tanzania: Using technology to support blind learners on all levels of education
• Tanzania: Creating a role model for Tanzania’s Inclusive Education Policy
• Turkey: Social inclusion through Special Olympics Unified Sports Recreation
• Uganda: Training teachers to keep children with disabilities in school 
• United Kingdom: Preventing bullying in English schools
• United Kingdom: Reducing all forms of prejudice-based bullying
• United Kingdom: Wayfindr: Empowering vision impaired people to travel independently
• UK-Togo: Itinerant teachers deliver Inclusive Education in Togo
• United Kingdom: Video sign language interpretation for bank customers
  
• USA: Creating school communities of acceptance, inclusion and respect
• USA: A curriculum for advancing the UN CRPD – in six languages
• USA: One accessible textbook platform for all universities
• USA: Analyzing the whole policy framework to identify barriers towards inclusion
• Vietnam: Low-cost technology for young people with vision impairment
  
• Vietnam: Transforming special schools into Support Centres
• Zimbabwe: Inclusive school systems rolled-out in Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe: Integrating Inclusive Education in local communities in Zimbabwe

Innovative Policies 2015

• Austria (Upper Austria): Peer counselling as an approved profession (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Belgium (Flanders): Personal Assistance Budget (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Japan: Enfranchising people under guardianship (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Luxembourg: Funding a national disability information centre (MS Word file) (PDF)
• New Zealand: Improving access to electoral events (MS Word file) (PDF)
• South Africa: Ensuring equal access for Members of Parliament (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Spain: Voting and participating in the electoral process (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Sweden: Personal Ombudsmen (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Sweden: The right to a personal assistance budget (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Uganda: Reserved elected seats for persons with disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United Kingdom: Funding for running for an elected office (MS Word file) (PDF)

Innovative Practices 2015

• Argentina: Regional network to promote legal capacity of people with psychosocial disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Australia: Individual Supported Living in Australia (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Australia (State of Victoria): Voting independently and privately (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Austria: UNIKATE (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Belgium (Flanders): Training for an active role in society (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Belgium (Flanders): Stimulating political participation for persons with an intellectual disability (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Belgium (Flanders): “Proefwonen” – Fast access to affordable homes (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Canada (British Columbia): Microboards: Small non-profits for supported decision-making (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Chile: Regional network to promote legal capacity of people with psychosocial disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Colombia: Regional network to promote legal capacity of people with psychosocial disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Croatia: Voting without legal capacity (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Croatia: Living alone with individualized support (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Denmark: Study kit about citizenship and personal rights (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Europe (European Union): Diverting EU funds towards community-based care (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Finland: Accessible election information for visually impaired people (MS Word file) (PDF)
• France/Czech Republic/United Kingdom (Scotland): Guidelines for accessible elections in Europe (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Germany: The employer model in personal assistance (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Germany: MOBILE, an all-round support program (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Germany: Persons with disabilities employing their assistants (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Ireland: Offering individualised support and sharing lessons learned (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Israel: Supportive Housing: helping young adults to live independently (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Italy: De-Institutionalisation and Community Living since 1980 (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Jamaica: A business approach to sustainable community living (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Mexico: Regional network to promote legal capacity of people with psychosocial disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Moldova: Returning children to their families and an inclusive environment (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Nepal: Training to actively engage in civic rights (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Norway: Personal assistance is custom-designed (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Papua New Guinea: Inclusion of children and youth with hearing impairments (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Peru: Regional network to promote legal capacity of people with psychosocial disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Rwanda: Empowerment through peer-to-peer support (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Serbia: Online platform on community-based services (MS Word file) (PDF)
• South Africa: Creating abilities from disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• South Africa: Cheap tool to make ballot papers accessible to the blind (MS Word file) (PDF)
• South Africa: Sexual Abuse Victim Empowerment program (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Spain: Free personal assistance proves cost-effective (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United Kingdom: Using mainstream lower-cost home automation (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United Kingdom: A “brokerage” service to provide short breaks (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United Kingdom: User-led organization teaching and inspiring others (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United Kingdom: Helpline and platform on personalized care (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United States of America: “Infiltration strategy” for women and girls with disabilities (MS Word file) (PDF)
• United States of America: Strengthening electoral systems to be inclusive and accessible (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Yemen: Employment and inclusion of rural girls with hearing impairments (MS Word file) (PDF)
• Zimbabwe: Enfranchising People with Disabilities in Zimbabwe (MS Word file) (PDF)

Innovative Policies 2014

• Australia: Development aid as key enabler for accessibility
• China: Hong Kong’s retrofitting and access coordinator programme
• Colombia: Internet for 500,000 disadvantaged Colombians
• Germany: Mandatory barrier free construction in Berlin
• India: Copyright exception for accessible formats
• Solo City (Indonesia): Access to transport that can be enforced
• Ireland: Accessible service for energy customers
• Japan: Cheaper mortgages for accessible homes
• Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): Monitoring and enforcing accessibility
• Norway: Universal design in non-discrimination law
• Qatar: Comprehensive eAccessibility Policy
• South Africa: Inclusive design of Cape Town’s Bus System
• Spain: Public-private partnership for accessibility
• Uganda: Mandatory accessibility standards
• London 2012 (United Kingdom): The most inclusive Olympics and Paralympics ever

Innovative Practices 2014

• Australia_NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access)
• Austria_ways4all
• Austria_RelayService
• Austria_ÖZIV access
• Austria_MoVih – mobility in public transport
• Austria_MathInBraille
• Austria_Easy entrance
• Austria_Barrierefreie Bank
• Austria_AppHear
• Austria_AccessibleMap
• Austria_wege-finden.at
• Brazil_RIOinclui
• Brazil_Escola de Gente
• Belgium_Intro vzw
• Belgium_Inclusion Europe aisbl
• Colombia_Digital inclusion kit
• Chile_Cetram
• Denmark_Most accessible offi ce
• Ethiopia_Guide to accessible Ethiopia
• Estonia_Accessible TUT
• France_SCOP Le Messageur
• France_Artesens
• France_ACCEO
• Germany_PIKSL
• Germany_VerbaVoice
• Germany_wheelmap.org
• India_eSpeak Text to Speech Engine
• Ireland_Home from home apartment
• Japan_Evacuation manual in DAISY
• Macedonia_E-accessible education
• Mexico_Accessibility guide for workplaces
• Montenegro_Accessible transport
• Norway_Scandic Hotels
• Portugal_ColorADD
• Qatar_Mada
• Singapore_BCA Universal Design (UD) Mark
• South Africa_ATHENA
• Spain_Towns and Cities for All
• Spain_EMT Madrid
• Spain_AspaceNet
• Spain_Amóvil

Parallel Session: Accessible Tourism

Opening of the Zero Project Conference

12:30 – 12:45 M1: Opening Keynote Speech_Daniela Bas_United Nations_United States (English, pdf)

12:45 – 13:00 M1: Opening Keynote Speech_Minister Alois Stoeger_Federal Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection_Austria (German, pdf)

Presentations and discussions on Practices and Policies

14:30 – 15:45 M3: Comprehensive employment models from Subsaharan Africa_Robert Ransom_Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development_Ethiopia (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M3: Comprehensive employment models from Subsaharan Africa_Thomas Bezuidenhout_Cape Mental Health_PRA173329 (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M3: Comprehensive employment models from Subsaharan Africa_Marna De Bruyn_Living Link_South Africa_PRA170205 The Living Link Presentation (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M3: Comprehensive employment models from Subsaharan Africa_Retta Getachew_Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development_Ethiopia_PRA171949 (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M6: Successful rehabilitation strategies. Taking care of your workforce_Ann Hoy_Accessibility Directorate of Ontario_Canada (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M6: Successful rehabilitation strategies. Taking care of your workforce_Paz Garcia_Mutual de Seguridad_Chile (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M6: Successful rehabilitation strategies – Taking care of your workforce_Paz Garcia_Mutual de Seguridad_Chile_PRA171230 (English, pdf)

14:30 – 15:45 M6: Successful Rehabilitation Strategies – Taking care of your workforce – Graphic Facilitation (English, pdf)

16:00 – 17:15 M3: Employment strategies especially for the blind and visually impaired_Florence Orban_Royal London Society for Blind People_United Kingdom (English, pdf)

16:00 – 17:15 M3: Employment strategies especially for the blind and visually impaired_Le Van-Nga_Nhat Hong Centre for The Blind and Visually Impaired_PRA172046 (English, pdf)

16:00 – 17:15 M3: Employment strategies for the blind and visually impaired – Graphic Facilitation (English, pdf)

Closing Keynote of the Day

17:15 – 17:30 M1: Closing Keynote of the Day_Graeme Whippy_Channel 4 Television_United Kingdom (English, pdf)

Tech Show

Tech Show_Eliav Rodman_OrCam (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Ivan Carmona_Ilunion – Foundation ONCE_Spain_EcaTIC (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Language People – Global Language Solutions (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Sesame Enable (English, pdf)

Tech Show_SpeechCode (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Step-Hear (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Viamigo_Belgium (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Walburga Fröhlich_Capito App_Austria (English, pdf)

Tech Show_Dominik Schreiber_Mopius – Menu Speak_Austria (English, pdf)

Business & Employers Day

B&E Day. A case study of employing persons with autism_Elisabeth Krön_Specialisterne_Austria (English, pdf)

B&E Day. Building strong and strategic partnerships to successfully employ people with disabilities_Virginia Carcedo_Inserta_Spain (English, pdf)

B&E Day. The business case of employing persons with disabilities_Patrick Romzek_Cisco International_United States (English, pdf)

B&E DayThe Diversity Journey. Challenges and how facilitators make hiring successful_Meera Shenoy_Youth4Jobs_India (English, pdf)

Keynote Speeches

09:45 – 10:00 M1: Keynote speech_Shira Ruderman_Ruderman Family Foundation_Israel-United States (English, pdf)

15:00 – 15:15 M1: Keynote Speech – Next level political participation_Helga Stevens_MEP European Parliament_Belgium (English, pdf)

Presentations and discussions on Policies and Practices

10:00 – 10:45 M1: Creating Change: Success factors for initiating employment models_Gaetane Bleher_Handicap International_France (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M1: Inclusive business strategies of multinational companies_Samir Gadgil_Wipro Infotech_India_PRA171952 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M2: Transition models that start in secondary school and high school_Desmond Henry_WALK_Ireland_PRA173190 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M2: Transition models that start in secondary school and high school_Karen Royston_Georgia Committee for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities, Inc._United States_PRA171896 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M2: Transition models that start in secondary school and high school_Lauren Lindstrom_University of Oregon_PRA173047 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M3: Matchmaking platforms. How to connect job seekers and employers successfully_Mehmet Kiziltas_Engelsizkariyer_Turkey_PRA171689 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M6: Against all odds. Successful models of scaling up innovations_Jean Judes_Beit Issie Shapiro_Israel (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M6 Against all odds. Successful models of scaling up innovations_Tara Doheny_Genio Trust_Ireland (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M1: Engaging with employer associations and company networks_Jane Lu_Standard Chartered Bank Limited_Taiwan_PRA172005 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M1: Engaging with employer associations and company networks_Fernando Riano Ilunion – Bequal Foundation_PRA172052 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M1: Engaging with employer associations and company networks_Ramez Maher_Helm_Egypt_PRA171873 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M2: Focusing on skills and abilities of special people_Elisabeth Pless_Institut for Epilepsie_Austria_PRA170882 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M2: Focusing on skills and abilities of special people_Jolien Smis_LetsCo_Belgium_PRA171682 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M2: Focusing on skills and abilities of special people_Selver Yolsever_Down Syndrome Association_Turkey_PRA173348  (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M2: Focusing on skills and abilities of special people_Shirley Kenny_Avnei Derech Mechina_Israel_PRA171907 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M2: Focusing on skills and abilities of special people_Tashi Widmer_Deaf Can Coffee_Jamaica_PRA173360 (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M2: Focusing on skills and abilities of special people – Graphic Facilitation (English, pdf)

13:30 – 14:45 M3: Microfinancing to kickstart self-employment of persons with disabilities_Vashkar Bhattacharjee_YPSA – Young Power in Social Action_Bangladesh_PRA171999 (English, pdf)

15:00 – 16:15 M2: Promising reforms in technical and vocational education and training_Nguyet Dinh_Catholic Relief Services_Vietnam (English, pdf)

15:00 – 16:15 M3: Economic empowerment: Supporting entrepreneurship, self-employment and start-ups_Minister Santiago Leon_Ministry of Industry and Productivity_Ecuador (English, pdf)

15:00 – 16:45 M3: Economic empowerment. Supporting entrepreneurship, self-employment and start-ups_Sabina Lobato_Fundacion ONCE_Spain_PRA172057 (English, pdf)

15:00 – 16:15 M6: Comprehensive employment models from the Middle East and Northern Africa_Madeleine Azmy_SETI Centre for Training Studies on Disability_Egypt_PRA173281 (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M1: Give it a try – the power of internships and summer jobs for creating jobs_Laura Stokley_Community Living Sarnia_Canada_PRA171539 (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M1: Give it a try – the power of internships and summer jobs for creating jobs_Peter Furlong_Kare_Ireland_PRA172355 (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M1: Give it a try – the power of internships and summer jobs for creating jobs_Susie Rutkowski_Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre_United States_PRA171399 (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M1: Give it a try – The power of internships and summer jobs for creating jobs_Galia Granot_Ruderman Family Foundation_Israel-United States (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M2: Handicraft training that ‘works’_Sangita Pant_EPSA_Nepal_PRA170563 (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M2: Handicraft training that ‘works’_Tracy Vaughan Gough_Sightsavers_United Kingdom_PRA173297 (English, pdf)

16:30 – 17:45 M2: Handicraft training that ‘works’ – Graphic Facilitation (English, pdf)

Friday Opening

09:30 – 10:00 M1: Amelie Saupe_Zero Project_Japan_Opening_Social Indicators (English, pdf)

Presentations and discussions on Policies and Practices

11:00 – 12:15 M1: Comprehensive employment models from South and Southeast Asia_Cees Van Breugel_Woord en Daad_Netherlands_PRA171417 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M2: Comprehensive employment models from South America_Carola Rubia Duran_Fundacion Descubreme_Chile_PRA173389 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M3: Peer education models: Person with disabilities as teachers and trainers_Philippa Bragman_CHANGE_United Kingdom (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M3: Peer education models: Persons with disabilities as teachers and trainers_Jan Wulf-Schnabel_Siftung Drachansee_Germany (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M3: Peer education models: Persons with disabilities as teachers and trainers_Mampoi Theko_Ministry of Education and Training_Lesotho_PRA173414 (English, pdf)

11:00 – 12:15 M3: Peer Education Models: Persons with disabilities as teachers and trainers – Graphic Facilitation (English, pdf)

12:30 – 13:45 M1: Crafting successfully transitions from sheltered employment settings into the open labour market_Andreas Jesse_autArk Soziale Dienstleistungs GmbH_Austria_PRA171863  (English, pdf)

12:30 – 13:45 M1: Crafting successfully transitions from sheltered employment settings into the open labour market_Cerasela Nicolet_PRO Act Support_Hungary_PRA170739 (English, pdf)

12:30 – 13:45 M1: Crafting successfully transitions from sheltered employment settings into the open labour market_Irad Eichler_Shekulo Tov_Israel_PRA171254 (English, pdf)

12:30 – 13:45 M3: Cooperating with universities to open up the labour market_Antonio Martinez-Pujalte_University Miguel Hernandez_Spain_PRA170779 (English, pdf)

12:30 – 13:45: M3: Cooperating with universities to open up the labour market_Jan Wulf-Schnabel_Siftung Drachensee_Germany_PRA171780 (English, pdf)

12:30 – 13:45 M3: Cooperating with Universities to open up the labour market – Graphic Facilitation (English, pdf)

14:45 – 16:00 M2: Comprehensive employment models from Central and Eastern Europe_Anahit Yernjakyan_Save the Children_Armenia_PRA172042 (English, pdf)

14:45 – 16:00 M2:Comprehensive employment models from Central and Eastern Europe_Hripsime Nazaretyan_Bridge of Hope_Armenia_PRA173314 (English, pdf)

14:45 – 16:00 M2: Comprehensive employment models from Central and Eastern Europe_Oksana Chuchunkova_Perspektiva_Russia_PRA172101 (English, pdf)

Farewell and lookout to 2017-18

16:00 – 17:00 M1: Farewell and Lookout to 2017-2018_Robert Kaspar_Special Olympics Austria (English, pdf)