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National Business and Disability Networks - Principles & Guidelines
National Business and Disability Networks (NBDNs) are forums where companies and other organizations come together to work towards further employment and social inclusion of persons with disabilities. These are often unique spaces where companies...
Promoting diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments: A practical guide
This guide aims to explain the concept of reasonable adjustments (“reasonable accommodation”) and provide practical step-by-step guidance on how and when these should be provided in the workplace.
Support to the Rights and Entitlements of Persons with Disabilities (China)
The objective of the project is to mainstream rights and entitlements of persons with disabilities into the policies and activities of key government agencies, including their rights to education, employment, as well as the principles of justice and...
Report of The Business Forum: Inclusive Employment Makes Business Sense
This report covers The Business Case of Inclusive Employment: Realising Decent Work & Economic Growth for All, a business forum held by the International Labour Organisation in Jakarta, on March 22, 2016.
Women with Disabilities
Focus on : Disabled Women Entrepreneurs in Zambia
Women experience higher rates of poverty than men due to, among other factors, a lack of access to or limited opportunities for training.
Media Training is Making a Difference
PROPEL works to build capacity of the media to effectively report on disability. Informed media coverage helps disability advocates reach policymakers, businesses, workers, and others with key messages about the rights of disabled persons, and the...
ILO Global Business and Disability Network: Public-Private Partnership
The ILO Global Business and Disability Network is a business-led, member-based initiative that fosters the development of a workplace culture that is respectful and inclusive, promoting the hiring, retention and professional development of people...
Demographic change and private sector disability management in Australia, Canada, China and Switzerland - A comparative study:...
The International Labour Organization (ILO) sees disability management (DM) as crucial to supporting workers whose employment is threatened by illness or accident and bringing people back to work. However, despite the widespread adoption of DM,...
Guidance note
Inclusion of people with disabilities in national employment policies
This note is designed to provide step-by-step support in effectively including women and men with disabilities in the development of national employment policies (NEP) throughout the policy process. It is aligned with the ILO Guide for the...
Overview on disability inclusion approaches in developing countries
ILO and disability inclusion
The ILO promotes equality of opportunity and treatment for persons with disabilities in the world of work. Access of persons with disabilities to decent work is important both as an essential right and in terms of the economic advantages it brings....
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Indigenous Persons with Disabilities: Access to Training and Employment
This paper was prepared as a resource for a panel discussion organized by the ILO in cooperation with the Government of Australia during the 14th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 23 April 2015 in New York.
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Indigenous Persons with Disabilities: Access to Training and Employment
This paper was prepared as a resource for a panel discussion organized by the ILO in cooperation with the Government of Australia during the 14th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 23 April 2015 in New York. (EPUB...
Start Your Business Training Report for Fiji
This report highlights the outcome of the Start Your Business, Improve Your Business Training, Buca Bay village in Savusavu, 22-26 June 2015.
Report of the Training of Trainers Workshop on Start Your Business to Support People with Disabilities
Report of theTraining of Trainers Programme aimed at capacitating organizations in the Pacific to support people with disabilities, 27 April to 1 May 2015, Nadi, Fiji.
Analysis of Legislation Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Employment in Vanuatu
This report has been prepared by the International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for Pacific Island Countries and is intended to assist the Government of Vanuatu, representative organizations of employers and workers, as well as wider...
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Reporting on disability: Guidelines for the media
These Guidelines are intended as a tool for professional communicators to promote inclusiveness and the fair and accurate portrayal of people with disabilities.
Pocket guide to reporting on disability in Indonesia
Together with AJI and ILO, Diffa plays an important role in making mainstreaming programs on the rights of people with disability to get a job. One strategy is to formulate and develop a reporting guidelines for disability issues. Generally, the...
Business as unusual: Making workplaces inclusive of people with disabilities
Inclusion of Youth with Disabilities: The Business Case
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International Women's Day 2014: Equality for Women is progress for all
On International Women’s Day 2014, the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme on disability recognizes the leadership and achievements of individual disabled women in selected countries. This brochure acknowledges their accomplishments and shares...