GLOBAL SUMMIT on the Rights of Women with Disabilities' The Right to Education'

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WELCOME
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Women with Disabilities and Development

• Disability Development Team
• World Bank, HDNSP

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Why Disability Matters?

• Essential for inclusive and sustainable
  development
• Neglecting disability comes at a high cost
• Investing in disability yields significant returns

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World Bank and Disability

• The work on disability as a development issue
  initiated at the Bank in 2002
• It was a response to a strong pressure from
  disabled people organizations, civil society
  organizations, and Bank members
• The Bank has evolved into the global knowledge
  and learning resource on DD

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DD Team Our Functions

• Knowledge creation and collection
• Documentation of good practice
• Knowledge sharing
• Building partnerships for inclusive development
• Supporting World Bank operations
• Supporting implementation of the CRPD

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Priority Thematic Areas

• Disability statistics (data issue)
• Disability, poverty and policy
• Accessibility and enabling environment
• Gender and disability
• Disability in low-income/fragile conflict and
  natural disaster affected countries
• Disability and employment
• Disability and HIV/AIDS

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Gender Equality and the World Bank

• Gender equality an issue of development
  effectiveness.
• Gender inequality as a barrier for economic
  growth and poverty reduction.
• The promotion of gender equality has become an
  objective of the Banks development assistance.

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Women, Disability and Development a Puzzle yet
to be put Together

• An estimated 300 million women and girls with
  disabilities
• Most live in developing countries
• Anecdotal evidence suggests their exclusion
• Yet, knowledge about them is sparse

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How come we do not know more?

• Those committed to gender equity, often fail to
  consider disability, and those committed to
  disability equity, often fail to consider gender,
  thus unwittingly rendering a majority of girls
  and women with disabilities invisible.

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Closing theKnowledge Gap

• Knowledge for evidence based policies
• We hope that this event will help us identify
  priority areas for research and evidence
  gathering
• .. AND

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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it
long enough.