Inclusive planning in development activities

STAKES joined the mission of promoting the inclusion of disabled people on the global scale already late 1980s. Finland had pledged to support the UN Disabled Persons Unit to produce guidelines on integrating disability dimension in development cooperation projects. A staff member was seconded to UN office in Vienna to work on that. One of the outputs was the publication "Disability Dimension in Development Action. A Manual on Inclusive Planning" published by STAKES for the UN in 1997, 2000 and still 2003 as an electronic version.
Disability Dimension in Development Action - A Manual on Inclusive Planning (PDF)

Demand for an inclusive approach and solutions has been growing steadily in development cooperation. STAKES has been working with a number of intergovernmental organizations on this. STAKES has been collaborating with the World Bank in order to facilitate the inclusion of disability issues in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. This has resulted in baseline papers on four sectors: education, transport, health and ICT.
Strategy papers on World Bank's disability website

STAKES is also involved in the work promoting the inclusion of disability on the OECD agenda. A paper on Disability and Infrastructure was produced for the German development cooperation company GTZ to advance the inclusion of disability aspects in the infrastructure sectors e.g. transport, water and energy.
Integrating Appropriate Measures for People with Disabilities in the Infrastructure Sector (PDF)