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FCDO and Bond Learning Event 2020

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Towards a disability inclusive COVID-19 response and recovery: learning from practice

There has been a growing focus on delivering development programmes that are disability-inclusive. But there is still not enough evidence about best practices.

This event, held to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2020, highlighted some of the emerging findings and successes from the FCDO’s flagship disability inclusive programmes.

It included:

  • Vijay Rangarajan, Director General, Americas & Overseas Territories, FCDO
  • The value and importance of engagement with organisations for people with disabilities, International Disability Alliance
  • Disability-related costs and the role of social protection in responding to COVID-19, led by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, PENDA consortium lead
  • Disability-inclusive responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, led by Sightsavers, Inclusive Futures consortium lead
  • Supporting persons with disabilities as part of the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, led by Leonard Cheshire, Innovation to Inclusion consortium lead

Watch the full event here:

Download the presentations:

Disability-related costs and the role of social protection

A disability-inclusive response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Digital employment pathways: supporting an inclusive economic recovery

A disability-inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic: value chains

Download the COVID-19 report:

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