1. The countries we work in Latin America
Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua,Trinidad and Tobago

2. Some facts about the region...
50 million disabled people, representing 10% of the region’s population
One of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality
Approximately 82% of people with disability in the region live in poverty
The World Bank 2005

3. Objectives Strengthen organisational development
Promotion of inclusive education for children with disabilities
Strengthen vocational training programmes and promote economic empowerment
Develop a network that shares tools, experiences and knowledge between partner NGOs, DPOs and other disability and development stakeholders

4. Innovative Inclusive Education projects in Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil
Only 25% of disabled children in LAC attend school
The World Bank 2005

5. Salamanca Conference 92 governments and 25 international organisations
“Regular schools with this inclusive orientation are the most effective means of combating discriminatory attitudes, creating welcoming communities, building an inclusive society and achieving education for all…” (Article 2, Salamanca statement)

6. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
“Inclusion is an attitude a value and a belief system not an action or set of actions” (Villa & Thousand, 1995)
“There is no such thing as an inclusive school, there is a process of inclusion that has no limits” (Ballard, 1995)
The World Bank

7. Innovative IE Projects
Kenya: community mobilization for physical access, teacher training, economic empowerment.
Colombia: early childhood project empowering parents
Brazil: inclusive preschool (from adult residential care to early years provison)
Honduras: develop a resource centre, building alliances and community participation, capacity builduing at all levels (UNESCO training packages), model for the country
Ecuador: research to identify and evaluate previous experiences and to highlight the way forward: teacher training, influence policy, working with parents )

8. On the journey towards Inclusive Education systems…
“Ideological Impurity is OK”
Norwich, 1996
Aim for access and quality
Education for ALL children
On the journey towards Inclusive Education systems…

9. Economic empowerment in Latin America

10. Economic empowerment in Latin America
Problem: some 80 to 90% of disabled people in LAC do not have access to employment
Challenge: provision of sustainable livelihood opportunities for young people with disabilities in the informal sector
Our solutions:
Development of demand-driven opportunities for vocational training
Support for the provision of vocational training
Development of competencies for self employment
Promotion of access to mainstream microfinance schemes

11. From traditional approaches to sustainable livelihood
Occupational
therapy
Income
generation
Microenterprise
Development/
formal employment
Sustainable
livelihood

12. The road to sustainable livelihood
Understanding
market potential
Provision of
adapted training
Microenterprise
development
Sustainable
livelihood

13. Understanding the socio-economic context
Identification of demand-driven opportunities for productive workshops and microenterprise development
Research into marketable skills for vocational training and marketable products
Building of self-confidence and development of competencies for self-employment

14. Access to training opportunities
Identification of mainstream vocational training and business development institution interested in expanding their customer base towards the inclusion of people with disabilities
Development of adapted curricula for vocational training and business development
Provision of advisory support for market development and microenterprise development

15. Access to capital
Identification of mainstream microfinance institutions interested in expanding their customer base to include people with disabilities
Promotion of group lending for credit reduction risk
Collaborative approach for policy and product development as well as practice change for microfinance institutions

16. Promoting sustainability
Partnerships with DPOs for:
promotion of schemes, enhancement of scheme performance, monitoring and follow up, consolidation of learning, establishment of structures for replicability and scaling up
Partnership with mainstream organisations for:
Effective creation of inclusive opportunities, replication on larger scale

17. Potential areas of partnership for future interventions
Support reaching MDGs targets for marginalised social groups
Provide advisory capacity on disability issues and mainstreaming
Facilitate the formation of consortia with other agencies to innovate and take programmes to scale