Cross Cutting Disability Research Programme (CCDRP)
Promoting equity: cross-cutting disability in international development research
Jeremy Bentham Room, University College London
Monday 17th June 2013
Programme
Time
Session
9.00-9.30
Registration (South Cloisters)
Chair (am)
Julian Gore-Booth, Interim International Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability
9.30-9.45
Opening Remarks
Martin Davidson, Chief Executive, British Council; International Trustee, Leonard Cheshire
Disability.
9.45-10.15
An overview of the Cross-Cutting Disability Research Programme
Professor Nora Groce, Chair and Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive
Development Centre, University College London (UCL)
Liz Fajber, Senior Social Development Adviser, Research and Evidence Division, Department for
International Development
10.15-10.45
Research: Maternal/Child Health and Women with Disabilities: Women’s Access to
Maternal/Child Health Care in Rural Nepal
Professor Groce, Chair and Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development
Centre, UCL
By Skype: Professor Dharma S. Manandhar, President and Executive Director, Mother and
Infant Research Activities (MIRA); and
By Skype: Dr Joanna Morrison, Research Associate, UCL/ Mother and Infant Research
Activities, Nepal
10.45-11.15
Tea/coffee (South Cloisters )
11.15-11.45
Research: Mental Disability (Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders), Stigma and
Multidimensional Poverty in India. A Pilot Study
Dr Sushrut Jadhav, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Mental Health Sciences Unit, Faculty of Brain
Sciences, UCL
Dr Sumeet Jain, Lecturer, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Professor Nora Groce, Chair and Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive
Development Centre, UCL
11.45-12.15
Research: Disability and Urban Agriculture – An Innovative Approach in Kenya
Dr Andy Frost, Deputy Director, Research into Use
Dr Maria Kett, Assistant Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development
Centre, UCL
Serah Nderitu, Research Fellow, African Centre for Technology Studies (ATC), Kenya
12.15-12.45
Research: Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene among Persons with Disabilities in
Low Income Communities (Uganda and Zambia)
Professor Nora Groce, Chair and Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive
Development Centre, UCL
Jane Wilbur, Equity, Inclusion and Rights Advisor , WaterAid and SHARE Research consortium
Dr Isaac Mutenyo, Coordinator, Appropriate Technology Centre (ATC) for Water and Sanitation,
Uganda
Asha Bumataze, Appropriate Technology Centre (ATC) for Water and Sanitation, Uganda
12.45-13.00
Questions/discussion
13.00-14.00
Lunch (South Cloisters)
Chair (pm)
Professor Anita Ghai, Associate Professor, Department Of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College,
Delhi
14.00-14.20
Overview of the Capacity Building Component of the CCDRP
Dr Raymond Lang, Senior Research Fellow, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive
Development Centre, UCL
14.20-14.40
Capacity Building: Disabled People’s Organisation / Graduate Student Internship
Programme
Eleanor Challenger, Project Coordinator, Cross-Cutting Disability Research Programme,
Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre, UCL
Veronica Nganga, CCDRP Research Intern, Real Impact NGO, Kenya
14.40-15.00
Capacity Building Overview – View from DPOs in the South
Rachel Kachaje, Deputy Chairperson, Disabled People’s International ; Executive Board
Member, Federation of Disability Organizations in Malawi (FEDOMA) , Immediate Past
Chairperson, SAFOD
15.00-15.15
Questions/discussion
15.15-15.45
Tea/coffee in South Cloisters
15.45-16.45
Panel Discussion: Key Priorities and Challenges for Future Disability Research and Policy
Chair:
Diane Mulligan, Deputy Director of International Advocacy and Alliances, CBM; Elected Member
of the UN CRPD Committee 2013-2016
Panel Members:
Professor David Hulme, Head of Institute for Policy Development and Management / Associate
Director of Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester
Professor Anthony Costello, Professor of International Child Health and Director of the UCL
Institute for Global Health, UCL
Dr Daniel Mont, Principal Research Associate, UCL
Michele Moore, Editor, Disability and Society journal
Dr Hannah Kuper, Co-Director, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, LSHTM
Jo Cooke, Social Inclusion and Civil Society Specialist, Civil Society Department, DFID
16.45-17.00
Closing remarks
Dr Tom Shakespeare, Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia / formally Technical Officer,
Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, Geneva
Professor Nora Groce, Chair and Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive
Development Centre, UCL
17.00-19.00
Evening drinks reception (South Cloisters)
With address by Lynne Featherstone, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Department for
International Development
About the Cross-Cutting Disability Research Programme (CCDRP)
The CCDRP is a three year research programme on disability and development funded by
the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Based at the Leonard Cheshire
Disability and Inclusive Development Centre, Department of Epidemiology, University College
London (UCL), the goal of this project has been to generate new understanding of the links
between disability and global poverty in mainstream development and health areas where
little attention has previously been directed towards persons with disability: maternal and
child health, water and sanitation, and agriculture, as well as to better understand issues of
access to mental health services in peri-urban communities. Research has been
concentrated in five countries: Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, India and Nepal. The programme is
also supporting a number of other stakeholders, including disabled people’s organisations
and local academic institutions to mainstream disability and development research.
The overarching aim of this research has been to contribute to an increase in the effective
and sustained social and economic inclusion of disabled people in international development
and global health initiatives through the generation of evidence-based research, as well as
the capacity building of a range of partners to strengthen mutual understanding around
disability inclusion.
For more information about this research, contact ccdrp@ucl.ac.uk
This research has been funded by UKAID from the UK Government. However the views
expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK Government’s official policies.