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"This is one way to get practical and often unpublished materials such as evaluation reports and toolkits to field workers in developing countries." Steve Harknett, Disability Development Services, Cambodia

For more information on Disability Research please contact David Curtis - Head of Programme and Capacity Development
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Disability Knowledge and Research Programme - Reducing Poverty Study

Disability and a human rights approach to development briefing paper

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This briefing paper by Bill Albert and Rachel Hurst, September 2005 looks at what the human rights approach to development means in practice, drawing on both what disabled people have already achieved and highlighting the challenges and opportunities offered by the new aid instruments and structures. This is the second of two linked briefing notes prepared for the Disability Knowledge and Research programme.

In the first (The social model of disability, human rights and developmment - Bill Albert, September 2004), it was argued that the social model of disability presents a conceptualisation of disability that makes the most sense in terms of an emancipating, participatory, human rights approach to development.

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