Social protection and disability in Mauritius
This working paper, focusing on Mauritius, continues a series of publications that identify good practice in enabling the inclusion of people with disabilities in social protection systems and programmes.
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.
Our commitments at the Global Disability Summit 2022
To mark the 2022 Global Disability Summit today, we are making five commitments to people with disabilities.
Pension or disability assistance: an unfair choice in Georgia?
When COVID-19 restrictions were first put in place in spring 2020, the Government of Georgia provided aid to different groups. Unfortunately, this was done in a way which left many people out – in particular, penalising older people with disabilities, a particularly vulnerable group who face not only non-working, no-income years, but also the additional costs that come with living with a disability.
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...
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...
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...