What can data tell us about international commitment to providing access to disability benefits?
Written by Patrick Llewellin, Diloá Athias, and Bjorn Gelders In recognition of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Development Pathways is launching the 2019 edition of our Disability Benefit Database – a unique inventory of tax-financed disability benefits in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Persons with disabilities – and their households – face a higher risk of living in poverty than people without disabilities. Even when incomes are similar, people with disabilities tend to...
Empowering Cambodians with disabilities through social protection
Findings from interviews with 12 Cambodian organisations for persons with disabilities on how to improve the social protection system.
Microsimulation Tool for Cambodia – Disability-inclusive social protection system
Disability-inclusive social protection schemes are one important way to promote and enable equitable and fair participation and benefits for persons with disabilities. Building a modern social protection system for persons...
Empowering children with disabilities and families through social protection and care in East Asia and the Pacific
We are supporting UNICEF and partners to engage in meaningful dialogue on social protection support reform for children with disabilities and families in East Asia and the Pacific.
Good practices and lessons for meaningful engagement of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities in disability assessment process
Disability-specific social protection schemes require a mechanism to identify and assess eligible recipients on the basis of their disability. This is a challenging and highly debated topic, and the type...
Disability benefits database updated for 2023
Open to all, the Development Pathways Disability Benefits Database now contains the latest information on countries’ benefits schemes around the world. This unique resource provides a global overview of social...
The additional costs of disability in Cambodia: implications for the design of social protection schemes
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately represented amongst the poorest members of Cambodia’s population. Overall, the national poverty rate (2021) among persons without disabilities was 17.5 per cent, while the rate...