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Learn about World Bank's efforts in disability measurement, evaluating service delivery, poverty mapping, and well-being analysis. See the impact on socio-economic indicators and education programs.
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Update on World Bank Activities Related to Disability Statistics UN Washington Group Mtg. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 2005
WB Disability Research Program • Disability Measurement • Improving data collection instruments • Documenting “prevalence” • Relationship of Disability to Well-being • Relation to poverty and other socio-economic indicators • MDGs • Evaluating Service Delivery to Disabled People • Within the context of general service delivery • Programs targeted to disabled people
Disability Measurement • Supporting Washington Group • Original DGF grant • Applying for extension • Developing disability measurement course for WB staff and client countries • Applied for grant to test appropriateness of LSMS for disability-related research • Paper on disability in DALYs and other summary measures of public health (GHRF)
Relation of Disability to Well-being • Quantitative surveys and modules • Implementing and/or assisting in general studies in Afghanistan, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, India, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, etc. • Education-focused data collection with OECD – starting in East Asia and Africa • Qualitative surveys – pilot test in Kenya • Yemen, Bosnia and Georgia – in conjunction with development of national disability strategies • Kenya – in conjunction with STATCAP project • India – in conjunction with quantitative survey
Relation of Disability to Well-Being (continued) • Disability poverty mapping project • Developing methodology to link census data with survey data to produce disability poverty rates • Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nepal, India, Mozambique
Evaluating Service Delivery to Disabled People • Key to getting resources into inclusive development programs • Qualitative study of service delivery in Indonesia • Applying for grant to evaluate education programs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Vietnam
Helping the World Bank Expand its Work on Disability • Interest in disability is growing at World Bank • Empirical work going on in many countries, but WB is decentralized, and work program is country driven • When working on projects with WB stress importance of disability • Bring disabled people organizations into PRSP process • WB has run workshops for DPOs in Nicaragua, St. Lucia, and Tanzania about PRSPS and need for stats