Methodology overview
The Making it Work methodology was created by international DPOs, disability and development NGOs and research institutions working in collaboration. It has now been used by projects all over the world – each project documenting examples of good practice as a way to influence change.
The Making it Work methodology is explained clearly in a Guideline and complementary toolkits that can be downloaded from this website. It is very straight-forward and can be adapted to develop projects on any disability issue, in any country, at any level, by all types of organizations.
Main purpose
Organisations use Making it Work in order to carry out effective, evidence-based advocacy or training that can directly influence changes to policies, systems or services in line with the principles of the CRPD.
There are 5 key components:
- Setting-up multi-stakeholder involvement : i.e. different organizations working to together to implement a Making it Work project
- Documenting evidence of existing good practices regarding a specific disability issue (e.g. one particular article of the CRPD)
- Using this evidence to make concrete and practical recommendations on how to replicate or scale-up good practices
- Producing and disseminating good practices and recommendations in a publication
- Using the publication and recommendations to develop evidence-based advocacy to directly influence policies, systems or services in line with the CRPD
Making it Work stresses three very important working approaches to underpin each of these five components, at all stages of the project:
- A multi-stakeholder, participatory approach: valuing exchanges and a collaborative review of practices between a range of organizations, including Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs)
- A solution-focused approach: emphasizing the positive using examples of what has worked already.
- An empowering approach: strengthening the analytical and advocacy skills of organizations involved with the project: through learning by doing