Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD)
Working Group on Disability and Poverty Reduction

Official Terms of Reference (TOR)

Aim

People with disabilities, women and men, children, young people and adults and their families, participate in and benefit from national poverty reduction programmes and other development initiatives, thereby improving their lives and increasing their participation in community life

Objective

National and international programmes for poverty reduction integrate disability issues and persons with disabilities

Working Group Priorities

• Identify national initiatives and programmes (both ongoing and proposed) for poverty reduction, where inclusion of disability issues and people with disabilities would be appropriate and significant
• Identify and promote opportunities for integrating the needs of people with disability in selected poverty reduction programmes and initiatives
• Encourage research on the link between poverty and disability, and also practical indicators to measure the links developed
• Design strategies and prepare policy papers, within the context of the GPDD, to raise awareness and influence national, as well as international, poverty reduction programmes to include disability issues
• Prepare a manual on inclusion of disability in PRSP, describing how to include disability and people with disabilities in poverty reduction programmes
• Prepare information materials and employ public media to raise awareness of disability and poverty reduction issues
• Organise workshops on poverty reduction and disability during national and international meetings
• Identify international and national development partners for dialogue on disability and poverty reduction

Work Programme

1. Identify 5-10 national PRSPs for specific efforts
2. Initiate a demonstration project in one country (Tanzania) to show multiple ways to include disability in a PRSP
3. Identify 3 key institutions for specific joint inclusion efforts (for example GTZ & KfW in Germany, two others to be identified, one perhaps jointly with the EU)
4. Identify and involve selected GPDD Alliance members as partners in these efforts
5. Organize workshops on disability and poverty reduction strategies
6. Produce information and training materials on disability and poverty reduction strategies for awareness-raising and capacity building
7. Produce a Handbook on disability and poverty reduction strategies
8. Establish a website as reference point on the work of the Working Group, on methods for including disability in poverty reduction, and examples of good practice

Impact Indicators (proposed)

1. National PRSPs to include specific reference to and actions addressing the needs of people with disabilities
2. National PRSP consultative processes to involve representatives of people with disabilities and their organizations in PRSP formulation, implementation and evaluation
3. 5% of national PRSP funds would be allocated to disability-related actions
4. Other national development policy and programmes, such as Health, Education and Transportation Sector Development Programmes, to include specific actions addressing the needs of children, young people and adults with disabilities

Working Group Members

• Members of the GPDD Task Force
• Members of the GPDD Alliance
• Selected Resource Persons

Development Partners

1. Development cooperation agencies of donor countries (CIDA, DFID, GTZ, SIDA, USAID, etc)
2. Multilateral development cooperation agencies (OECD, EU, World Bank, Regional Development Banks, UN agencies, etc.)
3. International and national NGOs engaged in development and poverty reduction
4. DPOs in countries of both the North and South
5. Governments in developing countries
6. National "PRSP Learning Groups"
7. Universities, Foundations

Communication by Working Group Members

• E-mail network among Working Group members
• Periodic telephone conferences
• Uploading of materials by each member to website