1. Women with Disabilities in Development World Bank March 10, 2009

2. USAID’s Approach to Integrating Women with Disabilities into Development
Mainstream women with disabilities into general programming and activities
Finding opportunities to build capacity of women with disabilities and DPOs for women

3. Successful Mainstreaming Approaches
Working with the Women in Development Office (WID)
Including women with disabilities in project design, implementation and evaluation
Investing in Women and Development (IWID) fellowship

4. Building Capacity of Women with Disabilities
Supporting of programs and encouraging subgrants for women with disabilities
Increasing resources for women with disabilities

5. Challenges Poor general understanding of gender issues
Continued need to integrate women with disability in mainstream gender programs and all development programs
Lack of good practices and research
Limited capacity of DPOs

6. Moving Forward Take time and build capacity
Identify opportunities for inclusion
Begin to evaluate and build best practices
Realize nothing about us, without us

7. For more information on USAID’s policies and programs visit: www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/disability