1. WELCOME
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2. Women with Disabilities and Development
Disability & Development Team
World Bank, HDNSP
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3. Why Disability Matters?
Essential for inclusive and sustainable development
Neglecting disability comes at a high cost
Investing in disability yields significant returns

4. 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 D&D

5. D&D 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

6. 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

7. 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 Bank’s development assistance.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Closing the Knowledge Gap
Knowledge for evidence based policies
We hope that this event will help us identify priority areas for research and evidence gathering
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11. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough”.
Quote by Helen Keller.