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What We Do

The Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD) thinks and acts globally, but also supports national action to accelerate the integration of disability issues and people with disabilities into mainstream social and economic development and poverty reduction policies, programs and budgets. The GPDD will facilitate and support local networks of disability and development organizations to promote inclusive development.

GPDD Objective & Actions

The primary actions to advance the GPDD Objective include:

1. Capacity Building:
   The GPDD works to strengthen the capacity of disabled people’s organizations (DPOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), governments, and other organizations to promote, guide, and facilitate the inclusion of disability issues and the participation of people with disabilities in international, regional, national, and community-level development policies and programs. The GPDD partners work in developing countries to improve the social, educational, and economic participation of individuals with disabilities and their families and advance their self-sufficiency.
2. Knowledge sharing:
   The GPDD works to increase the awareness of the public, in general, and of development practitioners in particular, of methods and efforts to promote and achieve inclusive development. The GPDD acts as an information hub and a facilitator of knowledge sharing.
3. Research:
   The GPDD works to strengthen understanding about the two-way causality between poverty and disability. It also seeks to identify practical methods to overcome discrimination and barriers to the equalization of opportunity and the full participation of women and men with disabilities in economic and social development in developing countries. The GPDD helps identify research priorities in disability and development, and encourages research by universities and research institutes, especially in developing countries to improve the quality, quantity, and comparability of disability data and evidence-based practices in inclusive development.
4. Networking:
   Being a network itself, the GPDD works with and encourages and assists other networks and international consortia to embrace inclusive development, to address disability issues and to include people with disabilities in their ongoing programs. It also works to encourage and support national networks for disability and development in developing countries.

Strategic Plan

The specific goals and intended activities of the GPDD are outlined in the Strategic Plan 2008 – 2012 [Word file].

Thematic Working Groups

The GPDD has created thematic Working Groups to help identify research needs and determine priority actions required to promote inclusive development in specific areas.