What is "Making it Work"?

What is "Making It Work"?

The Making It Work initiative aims at identifying solutions to advance the rights of persons with disabilities and the SDGs for lasting improvements in the lives of persons with disabilities.

Through its methodology, it supports Civil Society Organizations to implement sustainable disability inclusive actions for contributing to reaching the SDGs.

Good practice database

Good Practices Database

We have gathered over a hundred inspiring Good Practices, which have contributed to improving the lives of persons with disabilities across the world. They cover topics as various as education, health, employment, gender, local development, and so on.

Use our interactive database to read more about these inclusive actions!

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2024 - Still a long way to go: Inclusion of women with disabilities in African GBV policies - Making It Work Policy Review

2024 - Still a long way to go: Inclusion of women with disabilities in African Gender-Based Violence policies. Policy review across 27 countries. Inès Ayyadi, Sophie Pecourt, HI, Making It Work Gender and Disability project, December 2020, contact: Sophie Pecourt s.pecourt@hi.org Picture of Winfred Namukwaya, Executive Direcor of MUDIWA during the Making It Work Gender and Disability Forum 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.

This is the 2024 updated policy review aimed at measuring the level of inclusion of women with disabilities in the national policies addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV). From 27 African countries in 2020, we have now updated and analyzed 31 policies.

Voices of... hear the perspectives of women with disabilities

Cover of the LIDDWA report Voices of Women with psychosocial disabilities

June 2024 - Lira District Disabled Women's Association launches Making It Work's collection "VOICES OF...". Collection now rich of the report from ABPDFH "Voices of women with disabilities in Burundi: Shared realities" in English and French!

 

VIHEMA DeafBlind Malawi at the 2018 World Disability Summit

Catherine Uteka and Martha Momba from VIHEMA Deafblind Malawi

VIHEMA DeafBlind Malawi attended the Global Disability Summit in the UK, 24 July 2018.

Martha Momba shares her appreciation about the summit and how it was an opportunity to "promote the Deafblind persons to be front and centre of change through self-advocacy and active involvement and close consultation of deafblind persons".

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