REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS
Please find links to many of our key reports and publications about various aspects of inclusive policy. For more information you can also check out our blog and the videos page.
This report evaluates Armenia’s recent reform of its disability assessment system for the purposes of administering the country’s disability benefits program. The reform had two main outcomes: replacing the traditional medical model with a rights-based approach using the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework; and digitalizing the assessment process.
Globally, people with disabilities face a heightened risk of poverty, the extent of which is often underestimated due to a failure to account for disability-related direct costs or “extra costs”. People with disabilities spend significant proportions of their income on additional goods and services (e.g. personal assistance, assistive devices, extra healthcare, transportation): paying out-of-pocket for these items can substantially lower their standard of living, while inability to meet these costs can affect their well-being and social participation. Estimating the magnitude and sources of disability-related direct costs is key for policy and planning, as it can affect determinations of poverty and also identify where additional investment may be needed to reduce the individual burden of these costs (e.g., through social protection, designing more inclusive services).
This report reviews the principles of inclusive social protection for persons with disabilities and how they can inform policy developments in Indonesia. It presents a rapid summary of evidence to generate up-to-date insights, based on Indonesia’s commitments and international best practice, that can inform a context-specific program of work to progress social protection for persons with disabilities. Findings and recommendations are based on a desk review, focus group discussions with Indonesian disability representatives and consideration of comparative international country examples.
This report analyzes Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Program (SCTP), highlighting its critical role in reducing poverty and improving access to basic needs for marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities as well as its limitations. It ends with recommendations on how the program can be more effective.
Too often, the disability and care agendas have moved on parallel tracks—closely related but rarely intersecting. At the 2024 AWID Forum, a powerful coalition including the Center for Inclusive Policy, Disability Rights Fund, Oxfam, the Global Alliance for Care, and the International Domestic Workers Federation came together to change that. Together, they hosted a strategy session that explored how care policies can—and must—serve everyone involved in care relations. This strategy document captures the most critical insights, bold ideas, and collective commitments that emerged from that conversation.
CIP is honored to receive UNESCAP and UN Women’s Champion Award for
promoting disability inclusive approaches to care. CIP Senior Associate,
Meenakshi Balasubramanian, was in Bangkok to receive the award.
It is vital that the care economy includes a disability lens so that social
protection systems become more inclusive.
Disability and development report
CIP is pleased to have contributed to the UN Disability and Development
Report 2024, “Accelerating the realization of the Sustainable Development
Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities” (November 2024).
The report finds that wide gaps persist between persons with and without
disabilities in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Direct Costs of Disability to Families in Tamil Nadu
A monitoring report of the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic for persons with disabilities in India.
CIP provided technical assistance to IDA and OPDs to document governments’ social protection response for persons with disabilities in South Asia, and formulate recommendations for an inclusive recovery.
Official development assistance has a critical role to play in financing social innovation, system building and budget support in low- and middle income-countries. It is, therefore, crucial to ensure that OPDs and other stakeholders monitor to what extent ODA supports inclusion of persons with disabilities. With the adoption of the OECD DAC disability marker, this has become feasible. Polly Meeks developed a guide for OPDs on how to use OECD database to get data they need for advocacy
Caution: this guide is currently being updated. The updates will bring the guide in line with recent changes to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’s) database.
If you would like to use the guide in the short term, the key changes to note are:
- In Step 1 of the guide: the OECD now uses a new platform called Data Explorer. To go to Data Explorer, use this link: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/. Within Data Explorer, select Official Development Assistance. Then select CRS: Creditor Reporting System (flows) [cloud replica].
- In Step 5 of the guide: allocable Official Development Assistance (ODA) now includes some extra categories. To look at allocable ODA, include all of the following:
- Basked funds / pooled funding
- Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
- Contributions to multi-donor/multi-entity funding mechanisms
- Contributions to multi-donor/single-entity funding mechanisms
- Contributions to single-donor funding mechanisms and contributions earmarked for a specific funding window or geographical location
- Core support to NGOs, private bodies, PPPs and research institutes
- Donor country personnel
- Other technical assistance
- Project-type interventions
- Sector budget support
CIP fellow, Meenakshi Balasubramanian, supported the drafting in consultation with many OPDs of a report on the Indian government’s initial Social Protection response for persons with disabilities called “Too little, too few” which was subsequently used for advocacy in different states.
Building on the UNPRPD brief on Disability-Inclusive Social Protection Response to COVID19 crisis, this paper is a first attempt to review the social protection measures taken by governments to support persons with disabilities and their families.
CIP together with several OPDs of Asia-Pacific and IDA launched the first manual to support strong budget advocacy by OPDs which is required now more than ever. Developed before the crisis, it presents their experience in budget advocacy, and some key lessons learned.
In recent years, interest has been growing on the role of public budget in supporting the inclusion of persons with disabilities. The terms inclusive budgeting, disability budgeting, disability responsive budgeting, have been used interchangeably. But do they mean the same?
CIP published the first note seeking to clarify the possible meaning of CRPD compliant budgeting
The twelve years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
have seen important progress in many national legal frameworks – but few of these changes can be fully implemented without more and better public budget resources for inclusion. Budgeting is a highly political process: as a minority often marginalised from power, persons with disabilities tend to lose out. This report presents evidence from a survey of 38 civil society organisations in 23 countries, complemented by more detailed findings from disability budget
analyses in India, the Philippines and the Pacific.
CIP supported Europe Foundation and OPDs to conduct an analysis of the public budget from a CRPD perspective in Georgia and to formulate recommendations for the government and the disability movement.
This paper has been produced by the Center for Inclusive Policy for UNICEF and the ILO in the framework of the Inclusive Social Protection project funded by the UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Understanding the existing budget space and priorities for community support for persons with disabilities in India’ written by Meenakshi Balasubramanian.
This paper on ‘Estimating the Extra Cost for Disability for Social Protection Programs’ has been produced by CIP, UNICEF and ILO.
