The enabling disabled people to reduce poverty study was a series of research projects and papers that examined the links between poverty and disability and the impact disabled people have in bringing about poverty reduction. It brought together a network of researchers working collaboratively to look at different aspects of this issue. It was lead and managed by Professor David Seddon at the University of East Anglia.

The research papers exemplify the social model of disability approach of the Disability KaR programme. For example the briefing note "The social model of disability, human rights and developmment", reflects the importance of projecting disabled people into a leading role in defining and controlling their lives.

In the paper; "Mainstreaming disability in development; Lessons from gender mainstreaming", it is argued that a social-model conception of disability provides a clear parallel with the Gender and Development paradigm in terms of understanding disability as being socially constructed, resulting from barriers to equal access, as well as from the reality of unequal power relationships across the entire spectrum of development work from policy to practice.

In the final paper of the study, "Disability, poverty and the ‘new’ development agenda", Rebecca Yeo examines the changes that have taken place in recent years around poverty and disability and the relationship between the two.

She assesses the nature of the changes, examining who controls the agenda and what prospects there are for progress, and suggests some ways forward at some ways forward and makes some suggestions as to how poverty and disability can be more effectively addressed.