Reducing stigma and demonstrating change

The Disability Inclusive Development - Inclusive Futures (DIDIF) programme is an eight year, multi-country programme, delivered by a consortium of ten organisations in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. In all of these countries, as in many other parts of the world, stigma, and discrimination (including negative attitudes and stereotypes) are significant barriers to disability inclusion, which prevent people with disabilities from accessing health and education services and participating in economic and political spaces.

Impel produced a learning review that examined disability-related stigma reduction in the DIDIF programme; it explores how development programmes can effectively design, implement, and monitor interventions to reduce disability-related stigma, negative social attitudes, and discrimination. The learning review explores practical learning and experiences about what works, what doesn’t and why. The goal is to provide valuable insights for other development actors and donors based on learning and experience from DIDIF projects.