These resources look at the empowerment and involvement of disabled people in projects and policy-making. All are free of charge unless stated otherwise. For more resources, visit the Source International Information Centre: www.asksource.info

Beyond de-institutionalisation: the unsteady transition towards an enabling system in South East Europe
Adams, Lisa, Axelsson, C and Granier P, Belgrade: Handicap International Regional Office for South East Europe, 2004, 208 p, ill.
Addresses the unsteady transition of the Balkan countries into a system that enables and empowers disabled people at all levels.
Available from: Handicap International, Regional Office for South East Europe, Vojvode Vlahovica 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Available online at:
www.disabilitymonitorsee
.org/indexe.htm

Brief overview of the mandate of the African Decade for Disabled Persons (ADDP) Secretariat, Cape Town: ADDP Secretariat, (no date) 8 p.
Available from: ADDP Secretariat, Po Box 587, Cape Town 8000. Fax: +27 21 422 0861.
South Africa Website:
www.africandecade.org.za
Available online at:
www.disability.dk/site/
viewdoc.php?doc_id=1348

CBR: a strategy for rehabilitation, equalization of opportunities, poverty reduction and social inclusion of people with disabilities - joint position paper 2004
World Health Organization (WHO), International Labour Office (ILO) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (et al), Geneva: WHO, 2004, 31 p. ISBN: 92 4 159238 9
This paper underlines that community-based rehabilitation is a strategy promoting mulit-sectoral collaboration to reach different community groups.
Available from: WHO Marketing and Dissemination,
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Fax: +41 22 791 3111
Online bookshop:
http://bookorders.who.int
Available online at:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/
images/0013/001377/137716e.pdf

The disability dimension in EU country strategy papers and national indicative programmes for ACP [Afro-Caribbean Pacific] countries: how to ensure that the socio-economic integration of persons with disabilities is part of the CSP process, Christian Blind Mission International Brussels: 2004, 48 p.
A paper prepared as a guidance for the delegations and offices of the EU to include disabled people in their policies.
Available from: Christian Blind Mission (CBM), Galeries de la Toison d'Or, 29 Chausseé d'Ixelles 393/26, 1050 Brussels
Belgium Website:www.cbmi.org
Available online at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/
development/body/theme/
human_social/docs/health/
04-04_disability_analysis_CSP.pdf

The Disability Convention - Making it work CD-ROM: Source, Handicap International, and the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), 2005
New CD-ROM created for and launched at the Fifth Ad Hoc meeting for the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in New York in February 2005. It contains 90 resources on disability and development, designed to help aid agencies and development organisations to mainstream disability into poverty reduction strategies, promoting the inclusion of disabled people in international development through the recognition and strengthening of human rights. It also aims to spread experience and stimulate an international information exchange.

The CD-ROM is available on request (while stocks last) from Stefan Lorenzkowski
Email: stefan.lorenzkowski@hi-uk.org
Available online at:
www.iddc.org.uk/cdrom

Disabilities Information Resources (DINF) Japan: Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (regularly updated)
Useful source of online documentation for the Asia Pacific region. Contains materials on community-based rehabilitation and full text versions of major policy documents, including all those relating to the Asia Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons.
Available in English or Japanese.
Website:
www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/
english/index_e.html

Participation of organisations and partners for persons with disabilities in the PEAP 2003 Revision, Ddamulira, D.
(Commissioned by NUDIPU, USDC and ADD), July 2003 The Ugandan government invited stakeholders including DPOs to participate in the revision of its Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), 2003. This report presents proposals from DPOs for the revision, to guide policy makers and stakeholders in making practical policy interventions that will reduce the poverty of disabled people but most importantly recognise the need to integrate them into all of Uganda's development processes.
Available online at:
www.disabilitykar.net/docs/
recommendations_nudipu.doc

Towards equality: creation of the disability movement in Central Asia, Katsui, H., Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2005 207 p ill. ISBN: 952-10-2256-6; 952-10-2257-4
Study focusing on a political approach to civil society in the field of disability. It shows how disabled people can organise themselves and make themselves heard.
Available from: University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 33 (Yliopistonkatu 4), FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
Available online at:
http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/
julkaisut/val/sospo/vk/katsui/