Employment and Training

The goal of employment policy for disabled people is full inclusion in the general labor market.  Achieving that goal requires efforts in training and education, vocational rehabilitation, accessible transport, and the right to accommodations in the workplace.  These accommodations include accessible work stations, job restructuring, and special equipment or assistive devices.

Publications and Reports

World Bank Publications

• Employment & Youth with Disabilities: Sharing Knowledge and Practices
  [PDF 270KB]
  Report of the E-discussion on Youth & Disabilities
  By P. Roggero, R. Tarricone, Bocconi University, Milan-Italy and  M.Nicoli, V.Mangiaterrra, World Bank
  October 2005
• Disability Employment Policy
  [PDF 114KB]
  By Daniel Mont, World Bank
  July 2004
  This paper is the first in a series aimed at analyzing disability employment policy and developing recommendations for policy reform in middle income countries.

Non-World Bank Publications

• Good Practices for the Economic Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Developing Countries - Funding Mechanisms for Self-Employment
  [www.handicap-international.org.uk]
  By Handicap International
  August 2006
• The Relation Between Disability Insurance Benefits, the Reservation Wage and Return to Work
  [www.dri.uiuc.edu]
  DRI News, A Newsletter from the Disability Research Institute
  Volume 5 Number 1, Page 8
  By Sophie Mitra
  2005
• Managing Disability in the Work Place- A Practical Guide
  [www.ilo.org]
  By International Labour Organization (ILO)
  2002
  Recognizing that disabled people not only have a lot to contribute to the work force and the national economy, but also that their employment will reduce the cost of disability benefits and may reduce poverty.
• Disability and Poverty Reduction Strategies
  [www.ilo.org]
  By International Labour Organization (ILO)
  November 2002
  Disability and poverty reduction strategies. Employment focus: How to ensure that access of Persons with Disabilities to decent and productive work is part of the PRSP process.
• The Right to Decent Work of Persons with Disabilities
  [www.ilo.org]
  By International Labour Organization
  2003
• Disability Online for CSR Practitioners
  [www.employers-forum.co.uk]
  By Employers' Forum on Disability, et al.
  2003
  "Disability Online" reflects the increasing importance of CSR to our membership, which includes over 380 UK and global organisations, which together employ over 20% of the UK workforce.
• Transforming Disability into Ability: Policies to Promote Work and Income Security for Disabled People
  [miranda.sourceoecd.org]
  By OECD
  February 2003
  This book provides a systematic analysis of a wide array of labour market and social protection programmes aimed at people with disabilities.  Analysing the relationship between policies and outcomes across twenty OECD countries, it gives the reader a better understanding of the dilemmas of disability policy and of successful policy elements or packages. The report concludes that a promising new disability policy approach should move closer to the philosophy of unemployment programmes by:
  - emphasising activation;
  - promoting tailored early intervention;
  - removing disincentives to work;
  - introducing a culture of mutual obligations;
  - and, involving employers.
• Disability and the Labor Market: Data Gaps and Needs in Latin America
  [www.iadb.org]
  By Gonzalo Hernández-Licona, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), Sutainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank

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Related Links

Organizations/Agencies

• International Labor Organization (ILO)
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Department for International Development (DFID) - UK
• Employers' Forum on Disability
• Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Workability International
• National Institute of Disability Management and Research

Other

• GLADNET by ILO
• Cornell University's Program on Employment and Disability

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