Tag: Disability

Disability Justice and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence By Marieke van Gerwen, SRHR Advisor, and Daphne Visser, Advocacy and SRHR Advisor at Liliane Fonds. Children with disabilities are 4.6 times more likely than children without disabilities to experience sexual violence (WHO, 2021). Similarly, according to Handicap International (2015), a substantial proportion of young women with disabilities […]

This toolkit is a resource for organizations that want to build a disability inclusion mindset among staff and partners who design and implement abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programming. This toolkit is written specifically for trained VCAT (values clarification and attitude transformation) facilitators with experience delivering VCAT workshops in the field […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) (2011) estimates that 1 billion (15%) of the global population living in the world today have a disability (2011). This increases to 19.2% for women and girls, and up to 220 million young people are living with a disability. Persons with disabilities have the same sexual and reproductive health (SRH) […]

MSI Reproductive Choices have made persons with disabilities an important segment of their global agenda: Leave No One Behind. The MSI 2030 Strategy3 commits to placing a strong focus on reaching adolescents, those living in extreme poverty and marginalised communities who have little or no access to public sexual reproductive health (SRH) services. A key […]

As part of the Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) Women’s Integrated Sexual Reproductive Health (WISH) programme, an evidence gap map (EGM) has been developed to map interventions on ‘what works’ to enable access to sexual reproductive health (SRH) services for persons with disabilities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). EGMs are a user-friendly presentation of […]

The Pleasure Bank (TPB) is an open-source gallery of pleasure-centered illustrations for sexual health content creators, educators, enthusiasts and basically anyone who is tired of using bananas and grapefruits! TPB aims to support the provision of evidence-based, realistic and people-centered information around sexual health and rights. In 2022, the Share-Net Netherlands Community of Practice on […]

A new United Nations guide for disability-inclusive communications has been published, with the aim of ensuring inclusive and accessible communications will reduce bias and discrimination, and promote inclusion and participation of all. The guidelines are intended for all UN personnel, yet is a useful knowledge/ resource to guide everyone in developing inclusive communications culture. The […]

This study purposively selected two Dhaka slums, with and without disabled-friendly facilities, to investigate female perspectives on different aspects related to WASH and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) for females with a disability. The rapid expansion of slums with increasing population density are the main barriers to scaling-up sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities in […]

Executive Summary This is a compilation of good practices and lessons learnt in disability-inclusive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) based on experience from the implementation of the WISH2ACTION (Women’s Integrated Sexual Health [Lot 2] Access, Choice, Together, Innovation and Ownership, Now) programme. Firstly, the compilation introduces disability-inclusive SRHR which is critical to address […]

Over 1 billion people worldwide, around 15% of the world’s population, are estimated to live with some form of disability. According to WHO, this number is increasing (WHO, 2011) (WHO, 2020). Due to a negative interrelation between disability, education, and economic opportunities, persons with disabilities often live in hard-to-reach communities and are disproportionately affected by […]