Summer 2005 contents

Sharing experiences, developing goals
Disability, poverty and the Millennium Development Goals... this was just one topic discussed at the three Disability KaR 'roundtable' forums held in Malawi, Cambodia and India

PRA by disabled people: the experience from rural Cambodia
Find out how a recent project trained disabled people to successfully lead a participatory rural assessment (PRA)

Mozambique DPOs and capacity building
What does capacity building mean to Mozambican DPOs and how do they view Northern initiatives to help? Research for the Disability KaR policy project sought to find out

Cross-border learning
A group from Rwanda's national DPO visited Uganda, to learn from their neighbour's experience in involving disabled people in policy making and other processes

Competition projects news
Websites have gone live, and new models of wheelchair are helping disabled people in harsh rural environments in Africa: three of the Disability KaR competition projects describe the culmination of their work

Programme advisors: an essential contribution
How the experience and advice of a team of dedicated
advisors, including disabled, non-disabled, Southern and Northern voices, have benefited the Disability KaR Programme

Equal partners in research
The Programme's recently commissioned 'thematic research' has made a priority of putting disabled people in the driving seat

Resources
This issue's theme is empowering and involving disabled people in projects and policy-making