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"Poor people are disproportionately disabled, and people with disabilities are disproportionately poor.” Robert Holzmann, Former Director of the World Bank's Social Protection Department.

This section on Poverty Reduction will raise awareness about the multidimensional linkages between poverty (social, economic, and political) and disability to draw out effective strategies to reduce poverty for people with disabilities and their families in both developing and industrialized countries.

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New online-handbook supports persons with disabilities in the fight against poverty

[Last updated Thursday, April 10, 2008]

The Handbook was published by Handicap International and CBM in 2006, initiated by the World Bank and financed by a German Trust Fund.

Handbook content

1 PRS for beginners
2 How to initiate a PRS and disability process?
3 Entry points for the civil society in the PRS process
4 Case studies
5 PRS and stakeholders
6 Disability
7 Process and project management
8 Advocacy and lobbying: Influencing policies
9 Workshop tools

Accesss thehandbook on www.making-prsp-inclusive.org

READ II WORLD REPORT ON POVERTY AND DISABILITY ©: 'Hear Our Voices: People with an Intellectual disability and their families speak out on Poverty and Exclusion'

[Last updated Thursday, November 22, 2007]

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Intellectual Disability & their Families Speak out on Poverty and Exclusion'

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Fact Sheet on Poverty and Disability

[Last updated Thursday, July 26, 2007]

“If development is about bringing excluded people into society, then disabled people belong in
schools, in legislatures, at work, on buses, at the theatre and everywhere else that those who
are not disabled take for granted… Unless disabled people are brought into the development
mainstream, it will be impossible to cut poverty in half by 2015 or to give every girl and boy the
chance to achieve a primary education by the same date-goals agreed to by more than 180
world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000.”
James D. Wolfensohn, President, World Bank
Tuesday, December 3, 2002; Page A25, Washington Post

Exposing a global picture of disability and poverty
The cycle of poverty and isolation begins: exclusion from education, rehabilitation, employment
Exclusion: a family affair
Being part of change: the PRSP process and other related international initiatives

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Status Report on Poverty and Disability in the Americas (Nov 2004)

[Last updated Sunday, June 17, 2007]

The Status Report on Poverty and Disability in the Americas contains the results of research provided by people who have a disability, families, organizations and associations of people with disabilities and their families, governments and professionals from different sectors.

In addition this report reflects the views and analysis of the participants of the First Inter-American Forum on Poverty and Disability (Managua, August, 2004).

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Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Summary

[Last updated Thursday, June 14, 2007]

The Asian Development Bank has undergone a recent evolution in its policy and programming for education in the Asia Pacific region. This evolution has led to a clearer focus on education as a means for human development and poverty reduction, while also recognizing that breaking the cycle of poverty requires a multidimensional approach to education provision (such as non-formal education and school-feeding programs). In so doing, the Bank has outlined six policy priority areas.

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