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Factsheets of Innovative Practices and Policies
2019 Factsheets
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)
2018 Factsheets
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)
2017 Factsheets
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)
2016 Factsheets
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
2015 Factsheets
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)
2014 Factsheets
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
Presentations from the Zero Project Conference
2018 Zero Project Conference WEDNESDAY, February 21
Parallel Session: Accessible Tourism
Parallel Session: Rural Development
Parallel Session: Access to Health
Zero Project – Ashoka Forum on Impact Transfer Models
Corporate and Entrepreneurship Forum
Parallel Session: Services supporting business in creating accessibility
Room: M3
Parallel Session: Orientation systems for the blind
Parallel Session: Services for the blind
2018 Zero Project Conference THURSDAY, February 22
Parallel Session: Standards, Manuals, Toolboxes
Parallel Session: IT-Solutions supporting persons who are deaf
Parallel Session: Sign language solutions
G3ICT Forum: Accessible and Inclusive ICT Solutions – bridging the Gap
ILO Forum on Reasonable Adjustments in the Workplace
GAATES Forum on Urban Development
Parallel Session: Orientation Map-Apps
Parallel Session: Accessible Buildings in low income countries
Parallel Session: Inclusive Humanitarian Aid
Parallel Session: Access to Justice
Parallel Session: IT-Platforms connecting Peers
Parallel Session: Find buddies and peers
Parallel Session: Access to Arts and Museums
2018 Zero Project Conference FRIDAY, February 23
2017 Zero Project Conference WEDNESDAY, February 22
Opening of the Zero Project Conference
12:30 – 12:45 M1: Opening Keynote Speech_Daniela Bas_United Nations_United States (English, pdf)
Presentations and discussions on Practices and Policies
14:30 – 15:45 M3: Comprehensive employment models from Subsaharan Africa_Thomas Bezuidenhout_Cape Mental Health_PRA173329 (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 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)
2017 Zero Project Conference, THURSDAY, February 23
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_Lauren Lindstrom_University of Oregon_PRA173047 (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)
15:00 – 16:15 M2: Promising reforms in technical and vocational education and training_Nguyet Dinh_Catholic Relief Services_Vietnam (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 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)
2017 Zero Project Conference, FRIDAY, February 23
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 – Graphic Facilitation (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)
Press Releases
Press Releases 2019
Press Releases 2018
July 2018 – Zero Project receives 318 nominations (English, MS Word)
That was the Zero Project Conference 2018 (English, MS Word)
Press Releases 2017
September 2017: Zero Project Shortlists 140 Practices and 34 Policies (English, MS Word)
August 2017: Zero Project received 372 Nominations from 76 Countries (English, MS Word)
Economic empowerment for all: Zero Project Report 2017 presented at the UN Human Rights Council (English, MS Word)
Zero Project Report 2017 out now and available for download (English, MS Word)
Press Releases 2016
Zero Project shortlists 20 policies and 97 practices from 32 countries (English, MS Word)
UN disability summit (CoSP9): Four events will feature the Zero Project (English, MS Word)
Zero Project Report 2016 presented at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council (English, MS Word)
Press Releases 2015
UN Forum on Accessible Urban Development features the Zero Project (English, MS Word)
Zero Project Shortlists 200 Innovative Practices and Policies (English, MS Word)
Zero Project receives 337 nominations from 98 countries (English, MS Word)
UN disability summit in New York (CoSP8): Four events will feature the Zero Project (English, MS Word)
Side event at 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva (English, MS Word)
This was Zero Project Conference 2015 (English, MS Word)
Zero Project Team 2015 receives GAATES Award (German, MS Word)
Release Zero Project Report 2015 (English, MS Word)
Release Zero Project Report 2015 (German, MS Word)
Press Releases 2014
Zero Project goes New York – Conference of States Parties (German, PDF)
June 2014: Zero Project at the Maputo Review Conference (German, MS Word, accessible)
Press Release: Review of the Zero Project Conference 2014 (English, PDF)
Press Release: Review of the Zero Project Conference 2014 (English, MS Word, accessible)
Presseaussendung: Rückschau auf die Zero Project Conference 2014 (German, PDF)
Presseaussendung: Rückschau auf die Zero Project Conference 2014 (German, MS Word, accessible)