This report has been prepared by Philippa Thomas, the Disability Policy Officer, as the final output of the DFID Policy Project of the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme (for more information see Programme Overview section).

The report built on the previous report, ‘DFID and Disability: A Mapping of the Department for International Development and Disability Issues’ (June 2004), by reviewing DFID’s progress on addressing disability issues during the last year and identifying barriers to and opportunities for taking work forward.

The findings of this report are based on interviews with DFID staff, responses to emailed questionnaires to DFID Social Development Advisers, a desk review of DFID internal and external documents, country research carried out by the Disability Policy Officer in Cambodia, Rwanda and India, other research outputs of the Disability KaR programme, and wider disability research.

The full report by Philippa Thomas is available as a Word document (31 pages, 444KB)