Who's Who in Disability and Development: Development Banks

This page contains links to some of the most important organizations within the disability and development community. The list is for informational purposes only and it is by no means exclusive. If you have information on an organization that you believe should be in here, please contact us.

While we hope the links below are of interest, please note that the World Bank does not endorse external sites. 

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Business sector/Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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Civil Society

• ABILIS (Finland) 
• Access Exchange International (AEI) 
• Action on Disability and Development (ADD) - UK 
• Asian-Pacific Development Centre on Disability (APCD) 
• ATFALUNA Society for Deaf Children 
• Atlas-Alliance - Norway 
• BOND: Disability and Development Group 
• British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND) 
• Canadian Centre on Disability Studies (CCDS) 
• Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR) 
• Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) 
• Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE) 
• Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) 
  • CRIN: Disabilities 
• Child-to-Child Trust/Children for Health 
• Choike: A Portal on Southern Civil Societies 
  • Choike:Home>People>Disabilities 
• Christoffel Blindenmission - Germany 
• Disability Action Council (DAC) 
• Disability Awareness in Action 
• Disabled People of South Africa (DPSA) 
• Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) 
• Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) 
• Disabled People's Organisations – Denmark (DPOD) 
• Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (DCDD) 
• Eldis 
• Enabling Education Network (UK) 
• Every Child 
• Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training (GladNet) 
• Global Fund for Women 
  • Global Fund for Women: Women with Disabilities 
• Handicap International 
  • Handicap International: Disability 
• Healthlink: Disability and inclusion - Inclusive communication for disability: strengthening South-to-South communication 
• Healthlink Worldwide (UK) 
• HealthWrights 
• Inclusion International 
• Independent Living Institute - Based in Sweden 
• International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) 
• International Centre for Accessible Transportation - Canada 
• International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) 
• International Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Rehabilitation (ICACBR) 
• International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) 
• Inter-Action - American Council for Voluntary International Action 
• International Federation of Anti Leprosy Associations (ILEP) 
• International Foundation for Election Systems 
  • International Foundation for Election Systems: Disability 
• International Save the Children Alliance 
• International Society on Early Intervention (ISEI) 
• Italian Association Raoul Follereau's Friends (AIFO) 
• Landmine Survivors Network 
• Leonard-cheshire 
• Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) 
• Mobility International USA 
• Oregon Institute of Disability and Development (OIDD) 
• Oxfam 
• Pearls of Africa 
• Plan International 
• Rehabilitation international 
• Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) 
• Save the Children (UK) 
• Sense International 
• Solidarity, Humanity, International Aid (SHIA) - Sweden 
• Svayam 
• The Source 
• World Association of Persons with Disabilities (WAPD) 
• World Association of Supported Employment (WASE) 
• World Blind Union (WBU) 
• World Federation of the Deafblind (WFDB)
• World Institute on Disability 
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) 
• World Rehabilitation Fund (WRF) 

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Development Banks

• African Development Bank (AFDB) 
• Asian Development Bank (ADB) 
  • ADB and Social Assistance 
• Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) 
• Council of Europe Development Bank 
• Development Bank South Africa (DBSA) 
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) 
• Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) 

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Foundations

• Aga Khan Foundation 
• Carpathian Foundation 
• Charities Aid Foundation 
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation 
• Counterpart International 
• EastWest Institute 
• Eurasia Foundation 
• Ford Foundation 
• Freudenberg Stiftung 
• Hesperian Foundation 
• Kellogg Foundation 
• Levi Strauss Foundation 
• MacArthur Foundation 
• Open Society Initiative for West Africa 
• Open Society Foundation - Romania 
• Rockefeller Foundation 

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Journals & News

• Ability Info - News ticker 
• Ability Magazine 
• APDRJ 
• Disability World 

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National Development Agencies and other government affiliated development agencies

• Agence Française de Développement (AFD) 
• Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) 
• Bundesministerium fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) 
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) 
• Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) 
• Department for International Development - UK (DFID) 
• Deutche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) 
• Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI) 
• Global.Finland 
• Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA) 
• Instituto da cooperacao Portuguesa (ICP) 
• International Development Research Centre 
• Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
• Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 
  • JICA - on Social Security 
• KfW Group - Germany 
• National Development Agency - South Africa 
• National Development Cooperation Netherlands (NDC) 
• Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education 
• New Zealand Agency for International Development (ZNAID) 
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) 
• Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) 
• Swedish international Development cooperation Agency (SIDA) 
• The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) 
  • USAid - Disability Policy 

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Policy

• American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) 

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Regional/Unions

• Arab League 
• Asian Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (APDDP)
  • Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) 
• European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA) 
• European Disability Forum 
• European Union 
• European Year of People with Disabilities (EYPD) 
• Organization of American States (OAS) 
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 

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Sources for Projects

• Development gateway 
• Global Development Marketplace
  • Projects on Social Protection/Disability
• Global Development Network 

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Sources of Bibliographic References

• The Disability Archive UK 

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Statistics

• UNSTATS on disability 
  • Data and statistics concerning people with disabilities 
• Washington City Group 

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Technology

• Advocacy Initiative of the United Nations for ICT and Development (GAID) 
• WorldEnable 

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UN

• Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) 
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 
  • Empovering rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific 
• International Child Emergency Fund (UNICEF) 
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 
• International Labour Organization (ILO) 
  • ILO AbilityAsia Programme 
  • ILO Disability and Work 
  • ILO on Safe Work 
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 
• UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 
• UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) 
  • Improvement of Disability Measurement and Statistics in Support of Biwako Millennium Framework and Regional Census Programme 
• UN Economies and Social Commission for West Asia (UNESCWA) 
• UN Persons with Disabilities Website 
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 
  • knowledge sharing initiative 
• World Health Organization (WHO) 
  • Disability and Rehabilitation 
  • Mental Health 
  • No communicable-diseases and Mental Health 

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University Centers

• Disability Studies - Leeds, UK 

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