Professional publications catalogue
Update: June 2015
Creation of collections and editorial coverage
About…
Handicap International
“Handicap International is an
independent and impartial
international aid organisation
working in situations of poverty
and exclusion, conflict and
disaster.
We work alongside people with
disabilities and vulnerable
populations, taking action and
bearing witness in order to
respond to their essential needs,
improve their living conditions
and promote respect for their
dignity and fundamental rights”.
www.handicap-international.org
About…
Knowledge Management Unit
"The team aims to enrich,
alongside other sectors of the
Technical Resources, knowledge
and practices of technical and
operational divisions of the
association. The team sets up
and runs a dynamic collective
learning to improve the
identification, capitalization,
sharing and appropriation of
innovations and good practices.
This mission is guided by the
strategic orientations of the
federation and requires the
involvement of different actors
in the organization.”
Publications contact
Stéphanie DEYGAS
sdeygas@handicapinternational.org
Technical publications have been built up to give more visibility
and to promote Handicap International’s know-how and
technical expertise. So, in order to gather publications –which
were scattered until now– in a global project of knowledge
sharing, eight technical collections were created: Policy
Paper, Guidance Note, Practical Guide, Lessons Learned,
Research and Studies, Educational Resources, Project
Evaluation and Wide Angle. Each collection has a clear visual
identity (via a symbol and a color).
These collections cover all the publishing needs of Handicap
International’s technical and operational teams.
Two formats to meet specific objectives
When we created the technical collections, we had to meet two
distinct needs:
• Stabilized content to provide a framework to operational
teams for the implementation of projects: Sectors
Publications, whose content has to provide an overview /
overall (macro) on a sector of activity; these documents
explain how Handicap International works globally in such
sector, and are usually written by a Technical Advisor
• Content that directly comes from technical experience and
expertise of programs: Projects publications, whose
content is contextualized / localized (micro); these
documents explain how Handicap International has
developed such experience / expertise on such subject in
such country / place.
Re-packaged for a better appropriation
In a desire to support appropriation, two additional formats
–for the moment– are proposed to re-package the content from
publications:
• The brief, which summarizes in 4 pages the initial content
of a publication,
• The appropriation videos, which offer an original video
format coupled with an animated powerpoint.
All publications are available on SkillWeb at:
http://www.hiproweb.org/
Publications related to Prevention and Health Unit
Mental health
• Mental health and psychosocial support interventions in emergency and post-crisis
settings (2013)
This guide sets out the general principles of intervention with methodological advice and
practical files on mental health and psychosocial support in emergency and post-crisis
situations.
Available in English and French
• Conditions de vie carcérale et détresse psychologique des personnes détenues
(Madagascar, 2013)
This document presents the results of a quantitative study conducted in three prisons in
Madagascar in 2011-2012. The objectives of this study were to measure the perception of
prisoners on conditions of life in prison, to measure psychological distress, to determine the
variables that influence psychological distress and perceptions of conditions of life in prison. In
view of the results of the study, Handicap International has proposed a new model of
psychosocial intervention. Developed through a stage system of complementary services, it
promotes the application of a holistic approach focused on the needs of the prisoners.
Available in French
• Interventions psychosociales en milieu carcéral (Madagascar, 2012)
For helping to develop psychosocial interventions in prisons, this guide provides elements of
understanding, thinking and practice to stakeholders working in prison: members of public
sector and civil society, at national or international levels.
Available in French
• A feeling of belonging: An example of a community mental health project in Rwanda (2012)
Documentary about the actions of Handicap International in Rwanda to reforge the links within
the community.
Available in English and French / Booklet available in English and French
• Santé mentale communautaire et violences liées au genre dans la Province Ouest du
Rwanda (2012)
Action research: a territorial approach to the phenomena of violence and psychological distress
on Rubavu Districts and Rutsiro. What factors of vulnerability and what local resources?
Available in French / Available in French brief
• Mental health in post-crisis and development contexts (2011)
Policy paper on how to promote and develop projects to improve access to prevention and
care, and the social participation for people living with mental health problems.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
• Fostering and managing change in Algerian Nurseries (2011)
Lessons learned on the Algerian experience on support children deprived of family care.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
• Supporting persons living with trauma by rebuilding social and community links (Rwanda,
2009)
Example of a community-based mental health approach after the Rwandan genocide of the
Tutsis, involved supporting the reference persons in the community, so that they can set up
solidarity and care systems for vulnerable people and/or refer them to the appropriate care
providers.
Available in English and French
HIV / AIDS
• Including disability in HIV policy and programming: Good practice drawn from countrybased evidence (2014)
The purpose of this document is to share good practices and processes concerning the
inclusion of disability issues in HIV policy and programming, drawing on specific experiences in
Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Cambodia and on lessons learned at international AIDS
conferences. More specifically, it is intended to 1) provide a clear indication to HIV and AIDS
practitioners that disability mainstreaming in HIV and AIDS is indeed possible and workable in
various contexts and by implementing specific steps/initiatives; 2) transfer concrete knowledge
and practices to disability stakeholders, including disabled people's organisations, on how to
work in HIV and AIDS; and 3) persuade HIV-related development partners that more investment
is needed to develop this knowledge base in order to bring about practical changes at micro,
meso and macro levels, as well as among the population.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
• Strengthening communities to integrate persons with disabilities in the HIV & AIDS
response in Rwanda (2013)
Lessons learned from project in Rwanda, with the objective to integrate people with disabilities
in HIV and Sexual Violence prevention efforts and service provision generally. It is the result of
qualitative, multi-stakeholder study. The document focuses on good practices in five key areas:
strengthening civil society, HIV and AIDS prevention, effective advocacy, improving services
and mainstreaming disability. The document explains how the experience could be modelled for
adaptation or replication in Rwanda or other contexts.
Available in English
• Inclusive and integrated HIV and AIDS programming (2012)
This policy paper describes Handicap International’s mandate and values in operational terms
as applied to the theme of inclusive and integrated HIV and AIDS programming.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief / Available in
appropriation video
• Anchoring Awareness in the Community: Improvement of HIV/AIDS prevention and
treatment (2009)
Analyse of community awareness activities in reducing deny and stigmatisation of HIV/AIDS
and informing them on prevention methods.
Available in English and French
Protection against violence based on gender, age and disability
• Protection against violence based on gender, age and disability in emergency and
development settings (2013)
This guidance note sets out the points of reference for Handicap International’s protection
related interventions in emergency and development settings. It defines the thematic area,
explains its intersection with the organisation’s mandate, the areas of intervention (expected
results, activities) and future perspectives for working in this sector.
Available in English and French
• Sexual violence against children with disabilities in Burundi, Madagascar, Mozambique and
Tanzania (2012)
Children with disabilities are vulnerable to sexual violence and do not have access holistic
support services or justice. The objective of this research was to: gain insight into the
vulnerability and resilience factors of children with disabilities who have experienced sexual
violence; and start a movement at both national and international levels that facilitates
discussion and promotes people to take action against sexual violence of children with
disabilities. This report provides an overview of the research between the four countries,
individual country analysis of the four countries and additionally recommendations for
improving the situation for children with disabilities
Available in English / Available in Advocacy document (Out from the shadows)
• Santé mentale communautaire et violences liées au genre dans la Province Ouest du
Rwanda (2012)
Action research: a territorial approach to the phenomena of violence and psychological distress
on Rubavu Districts and Rutsiro. What factors of vulnerability and what local resources?
Available in French / Available in French brief
• An assessment of the factors of risk and vulnerability of women and men with disabilities
to sexual and gender-based violence (Rwanda, 2012)
This assessment testifies of cases of sexual and gender-based violence among people with
disabilities, and explores the factors of risk and vulnerability of people with disabilities to
sexual and gender-based violence.
Available in English
Mother and child health
• Inclusion of disability issues in mother and child health projects (2014)
The scope of this guide is about the prevention, detection and referral of women of
reproductive age and of their newborn and 0-5 years children, if they are at risk or confirmed
with impairments.
Available in English and French
Non-communicable diseases
• How to support local government to integrate CVD and diabetes prevention and
management into existing health systems - the Davao City experience, Philippines (2013)
This lesson learning publication focuses on Handicap International’s Cardiovascular Disease
(CVD) project implemented in Davao City in the Philippines from 2010 to 2013. The specific
subject focus is the Davao City Health Office (CHO), the main implementing partner of the
project. We are exploring the significant changes achieved by the CHO and the factors which
made them possible.
Available in English
• Diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors (2012)
This policy paper describes Handicap International’s mandate and values in operational terms
as applied to Diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors: strategic choices, intervention
methods, monitoring and evaluation, logic framework elements…
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
• Fighting against epilepsy in Rwanda: An efficient patient-centred experience (2012)
Result of a capitalization on a project related with the access to care of people with epilepsy
and their integration into family and community, with a focus on community-based approach.
Available in English and in English brief
• CVD Project evaluation: Baseline diabetes study, Davao, Philippines 2010 (2011)
Results of a survey conducted among people with diabetes brought together baseline
elements for a comparison with future study that will evaluate the effectiveness of a capacity
development project for the prevention of disabilities related to cardiovascular risks.
Available in English
• United Nations High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (2011)
This document describes the outcomes of the High Level Meeting and collaborations engaged.
It recommends future action to continue to push for the inclusion of disability into the NonCommunicable Diseases agenda though a collaborative approach.
Available in English
• From disease specific toward comprehensive and integrated management of disabling
diseases: diabetes, lymphatic filariasis and Buruli ulcer: Seminar proceedings, Nairobi,
Kenya, 7-11 December 2009 (2010)
This document reports on a disabling diseases seminar. After disease specific workshops, a
joint workshop was on comprehensive and integrated approach of disabling diseases.
Available in English and French
• Needs assessment to develop diabetes control and prevention projects in limited-resource
countries (2009)
The purpose of this document is to provide methodological support for the various phases of
the field mission to carry out the needs assessment with the aim of setting up a diabetes
prevention and control project: preparing the mission, carrying out the mission, completing and
following-up on the mission.
Available in English, French and Spanish
• Diabetes prevention and control projects in countries with limited resources: Lessons
from experience: know-how analysis (2009)
This paper proposes six know-how analysis sheets on diabetes prevention and control projects:
Mobilizing stakeholders to organise a symbolic event / Bringing services closer to communities
/ Supporting the decentralization of diabetes care / Strengthening “clubs” of people with
diabetes / Supporting associations of persons with diabetes in implementing adapted physical
activities / Carrying out a study for a disabling disease project.
Available in English, French and Spanish
Publications related to Rehabilitation Services Unit
Physical and functional rehabilitation
• La réadaptation physique et fonctionnelle dans les camps de réfugiés installés de longue
date (long terme) (2015)
This document is a supplement to the “Physical and functional rehabilitation” policy paper; by
itself it is not sufficient. It focuses solely on physical and functional rehabilitation services inside
long-standing refugee camps.
Available in French / Soon in English
• Understanding financial access to physical and functional rehabilitation services in
developing countries (2014)
This report focuses on financial access to physical and functional rehabilitation services in
developing countries, supported by practical examples from the case of Burkina Faso.
Available in English and French
• Effets de la kinésithérapie et de l'éducation à la santé dans la prise en charge de la fistule
obstétricale (2014)
The objective of this report is to demonstrate the effects of a program of physiotherapy and
health education in the management of adult women suffering from obstetric fistula in Benin and
neighboring areas.
Available in French
• Physical and functional rehabilitation (2013)
This document presents the physical and functional rehabilitation-specific challenges, principles
and recommendations for Handicap International. Above all, it sets out the overall framework
within which the theoretical underpinnings of the Rehabilitation Services Unit are applied.
Available in English, French and Spanish / Available in English, French and Spanish brief
• Quality management of global rehabilitation services (2013)
This report outlines the proceedings and discussions of Handicap International’s seminar
“Quality Management of Global Rehabilitation Services: Global Experiences, Innovations and
Shaping Future Reform”. The report closely follows the structure of the seminar week,
highlighting key information, contributions, discussions and recommendations from the
participants.
Available in English and French
• The Sustainability Analysis Process: The case of physical rehabilitation (2012)
This guide describes the Sustainability Analysis Process (SAP), a coordinated planning approach
that aims to facilitate the development of a common vision of sustainability among various
actors in a system (illustrated here with national rehabilitation system).
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
• Processes and approaches to enable sustainable access to quality rehabilitation services:
Comparative study of Handicap International programmes in Albania, Kosovo and
Mozambique, October 2011 – May 2012 (2012)
The purpose of this study is to analyse processes and approaches that have been used by
Handicap International to enable access to quality rehabilitation services for people with
disabilities, and specifically to look at their impact in terms of sustainability. The report can be
used to demonstrate the influence and importance of a systemic approach to facilitate access to
services, of defining relevant partnership modalities and sustainability strategies. It illustrates
the relevance of access to services, affirmed as a structuring framework for actions in Handicap
International Federal Strategy, applied to the sector of rehabilitation.
Available in English
• Technical Networking: a guide for the strategic development of partnerships, alliances and
investments within the Technical Resources Division (2012)
This report is the primary output of a process piloted by DRT within the Rehabilitation Unit to
investigate the technical networking processes and to identify new areas of upcoming global
developments where the unit should aim to establish its networks.
Available in English
• Le soutien en famille au service de l'enfant handicapé (2011)
This paper describes a pilot implementation following the finding that children with disabilities in
Togo can not integrate the actual school system. The team has developed a family support
activity: agents in community-based rehabilitation and an occupational therapist visit children at
home, to stimulate the capacities development of the child. This activity has demonstrated the
improvement of everyday life of the child (and family), through child stimulation and an evolution
of its social and physical environment.
This document describes the conduct of the activity, explains its strengths, weaknesses, and
proposes recommendations that can be used to reproduce in another project.
Available in French
Orthoprosthetics and mobility devices
• The provision of wheeled mobility and positioning devices (2013)
This policy paper describes Handicap International’s mandate and values in operational terms as
applied to the theme of provision of wheeled mobility and positioning devices. It defines the topic
and outlines the target populations, methods of intervention (expected results, activities) and
indicators for monitoring and evaluation. It presents the approaches and references for Handicap
International’s actions, choices and commitments. It aims to ensure coherence in terms of
practices whilst taking into account different contexts.
Available in English and French / Available in English (general / focus on emergency contexts)
and French (general / focus on emergency contexts) brief
• Kit de formation : l’emboîture à ischion intégré (2011)
CD-Rom which contains useful elements to the establishment of a technical training on the
ischial containment socket: elements of understanding and framework, protocols related to the
manufacturing steps, video on the fitting of the test prosthesis, elements to implement training
(planning, lists of materials needed,...).
Available in French
Publications related to Social, Livelihoods and Education Services
Unit
Livelihoods
• Inclusive employment projects Tool Box (2013)
This DVD-Rom is made of tools collected from Handicap International programs implementing
livelihood projects. It offers technical support to project managers providing them with
operational tools developed in other Inclusive employment projects. It complements the Policy
Paper on Inclusive Employment, providing practical tools made for and by the field teams.
Available in English and French
• Leçons apprises du Projet Turi Kumwe Réinsertion socio-économique des anciens
combattants handicapés au Burundi 2010-2013 (2013)
Activities supported by the project: The promotion of an inclusive environmental and services to
facilitate the reintegration of participants (physical accessibility, access to services); The
mobilization of economic and psychosocial local actors included local authorities; Promoting a
personalized social support and defining individual projects; Capacity development of staff and
partners involved.
Available in French
• L’insertion socioéconomique des ex-combattants handicapés au Burundi (2011)
Results of a survey conducted in May 2011 on the psychosocial and economic situation of
disabled ex-combatants in five provinces of Burundi (Bubanza, Bujumbura-Mairie, Bururi, Gitega
and Muramvya), in order to guide its work over the coming years.
Available in French
• Inclusive employment (2011)
Policy paper which explains how to develop projects which promote the employment of people
with disabilitis and other vulnerable populations.
Available in English, French and Spanish / Available in English and French brief /
Appropriation Kit on Skill Web (English and French)
• Ensuring access to microfinance services for people with disabilities: Workshop facilitation
guide (2010)
The workshop presented in this guide may be conducted prior to the preparation of a project or
as one of the initial stages in a project for making microfinance inclusive. The methodology and
content of this guide may be used in its present form or adjusted to suit other contexts.
Available in French and English / Available in Cd-Rom with French and English tools
• Reference documents and resources: Professional inclusion (2009)
This CD-Rom offers a selection of documents, films and internet sites relating to professional
inclusion. It offers material for a more inclusive development approach, leading to the
professional inclusion of people with disabilities and other vulnerable group.
Available in English, French and Spanish / Introduction booklet available in English, French
and Spanish
Inclusive education
• Tools and Resources for Inclusive Education (2014)
This resource kit presents a selection of documents and tools, produced by Handicap
International (80%) and other organizations, allowing the user to implement, in various contexts,
inclusive education projects for children with disabilities, according to the existing international
concepts and reference frameworks.
Available in English and French
• Inclusive education (2012)
This policy paper describes Handicap International’s mandate and values in operational terms as
applied to to the theme of inclusive education. It presents the approaches and references for
Handicap International’s actions, choices and commitments. It is a guidance document for
programme staff which defines the topic and outlines the target populations, methods of
intervention (expected results, activities) and indicators for monitoring and evaluation.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
• Scolariser les enfants handicapés au Burkina Faso : un exemple d’approche en éducation
inclusive (2011)
This paper reviews 10 years of projects carried out by Handicap International in the education
sector in Burkina Faso to promote schooling and inclusive education for disabled children.
Available in French
• Schooling for deaf children in mainstream schools in Burkina Faso (2011)
This paper describes all phases of an unique inclusion device of deaf children in mainstream
schools in Burkina Faso project. It proposes results of the experiment and recommendations to
improve the existing system, and prepares future actions.
Available in English and French
• Resource Materials & Reference Documents: Inclusive education (2008)
This CD-Rom includes answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Inclusive Education,
Handicap International’s policy on Inclusive Education, examples of current field projects, a
range of international reference documents and useful web resource links.
Available in English and French / Introduction booklet available in English and French
Social inclusion
• Personalised social support: Thoughts, Method and Tools in an Approach of Proximity
Social Services (2009)
This guide explores in a firt section the theoretical aspects of social work, development and
personalised social support. It is followed by a “Practical guide” to implement personalised social
support, based on various intervention techniques. The third section features a “Toolbox”
consisting mainly of tools sourced from Handicap International programmes.
Available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic / Available in English and French
CD-Rom
• Setting up an action to raise awareness about the situation of persons with disabilities:
practical guide (2009)
This guide offers markers and references for a quality approach to constructing an awarenessraising tool. It offers methodological recommendations organised in stages and illustrated by
exemples of tools for a hight quality awareness approach, to change perceptions.
Available in English, French and Spanish
Disaster Risk Management
• Disability Inclusive Community Based Disaster Risk Management: A toolkit for practice in
South Asia (2012)
This practical guide explain how to make community based disaster risk management (CBDRM)
inclusive of people with disabilities.
Available in English
• Coping capacity of people with disabilities in South Asia: A qualitative study of the impacts
and coping strategies of people with disabilities in communities in India, Nepal, Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka (2012)
Handicap International has undertaken a study on coping capacities of people with disabilities in
four countries. Each study focused on a recent disaster event which occurred prior to or during
the project duration. The events chosen varied in scale and level of external attention and
support received, which in turn reflects a changing picture of increasingly more frequent,
localised disasters. This report attempts to establish the impact of the disaster on people with
disabilities in comparison to the wider population and the coping strategies in evidence.
Available in English
Victim assistance
• Victim assistance in the context of mines and explosive remnants of war (2014)
This policy paper describes Handicap International’s mandate and values in operational terms as
applied to the theme of victim assistance in the context of mines and explosive remnants of war.
It presents the approaches and references for Handicap International’s actions, choices and
commitments. It aims to ensure coherence in terms of practices whilst taking into account
different contexts. Essentially this is a guidance document for programme staff which defines
the topic and outlines the target populations, methods of intervention... This policy aims to
ensure that all projects carried out by Handicap International programmes are consistent with
the methods of intervention presented.
Available in English and French / Available in English, French and Spanish brief
Publications related to Civil Society Support Unit
Disability and development
• Disability and development: Concepts, strategies and tools for disability-inclusive
development (2012)
To efficiently and sustainably improve the situation of people with disabilities, disability-specific
actions need to be developed, as well as actions aimed at ensuring that people with disabilities
and disability issues are meaningfully included throughout mainstream development efforts. This
CD-Rom highlights why disability needs to be addressed by international cooperation and
provides strategies and resources for how to become involved in this issue. Developed following
a request of French Agency for Development, this CD-Rom is aimed at actors who are not
specialised in disability but who want to: familiarise themselves with the issues; raise awareness;
persuade or mobilize a wide range of actors to respond to the needs of people with disabilities.
Available in English and French
Inclusive policies
• The EquiFrame manual: A Tool for Evaluating and Promoting the Inclusion of Vulnerable
Groups and Core Concepts of Human Rights in Health Policy Documents (2014)
This manual outlines an analytical framework for assessing the degree to which social inclusion
and human rights feature in policy and policy-related documents. EquiFrame identifies the
degree of commitment of a given policy to specified Vulnerable Groups and to Core Concepts of
Human Rights. The framework was developed with regard to health policy documents with the
motivation to contribute to enhancing equity in healthcare. In its current form it is directed
towards health policy-oriented researchers and policy-makers. This framework can be used to
support the systematic review of the content of health policies, as well as being a means of
facilitating greater social inclusion and human rights in the revision of existing policies and the
development of new policies.
Available in English and French
• Orientation Note about disability-related data in National Censuses (2014)
This note aims to equip Handicap International programs and technical advisors with key
information on what is a census, what census data can be used for and what are limits of using
this type of survey. It also aims to give guidance on when and at which stages of the census
process, technical inputs and contributions can be provided. It proposes a common way for
supporting quantitative disability data collection and analysis of national censuses. It promotes
using the globally tested identification tool proposed by Washington Group to identify those
persons with disabilities who are at greater risk of experiencing limitations in participation than
other parts of the population.
Available in English and French
• Understanding the UN Convention On the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: a handbook on
the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2010)
This manual is a tool to explain the content of the Convention for the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and provides detailed information on what occurred during the negotiation and
drafting process. It provides information on interpreting the text and providing further
information for its implementation at the local, national, regional and international levels.
Available in English and French
• Training Kit: Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (2007)
This CD-Rom contains a set of visual aids, international texts and documentary resources
required to stage training sessions in connection with the Convention on the rights of persons
with disabilities. The visual aids address many aspects of disability, of human rights and of the
Convention and need to be adapted by the organizer to the public concerned.
Available in English and French
• Disability rights and policies: Reference documents and resources (2008)
This CD-ROM presents reference publications, web pages and websites selected in connection
with the theme of disability rights and policies. The aim is to expand on the eight introductory
chapters of the booklet. Each chapter provides both theoretical references to help clarify
important concepts and approaches and resources that stem from practical experience to
support project development and implementation.
Available in English and French
Support to Disabled People's Organisations
• Le handicap dans les politiques publiques tunisiennes face au creusement des inégalités et
à l’appauvrissement des familles avec des ayants droit en situation de handicap (2014)
As part of Project Leadership and Empowerment for Action on Disability (LEAD), this report
examines the situation of Tunisian households inhabited by people with disabilities, their quality
of life and daily obstacles that they encounter.
Available in French
• L'inclusion sociale des personnes en situation de handicap dans la wilaya d'Alger (2014)
As part of Project Leadership and Empowerment for Action on Disability (LEAD), this report
examines the living conditions of persons with disabilities in the province of Algiers, with
identification of facilitators and barriers on the social inclusion process, in areas such as health,
education and employment.
Available in French
• Le handicap dans les politiques publiques marocaines face au creusement des inégalités et
à l’appauvrissement des familles avec des ayants droit handicapés (2014)
As part of Project Leadership and Empowerment for Action on Disability (LEAD), this report
examines the situation of Moroccan households inhabited by people with disabilities, their quality
of life and daily obstacles that they encounter.
Avaliable in French
• Advocacy for inclusion (2013)
The aim of this practical guide is to enable the user to identify the relevant strategies and tools
to carry out advocacy activities for the rights of people with disabilities.
Available in English, French and Spanish
• Support to Organisations Representative of Persons with Disabilities (2011)
This policy paper describes Handicap International's mandate and values in operational terms as
applied to supporting organisations representative of persons with disabilities. Essentially this is
a guidance document for programme staff which defines the topic and outlines the target
populations, methods of intervention (expected results, activities) and indicators for monitoring
and evaluation.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief / Available in
appropriation video
• Reference documents and resources: Capacity development (2010)
The CD-Rom which accompanies this booklet presents a selection of documents, books and
websites on Capacity Development. It contains theoretical articles to understand the concept
(Chapter 1) and tool boxes how to get practically involved into a Capacity Development process
(Chapter 2), it explains the idea of a learning organisation as a precondition for an organisational
assessment (Chapter 3). Moreover the CD-Rom highlights the importance of the quality of the
relationships between partners in a Capacity Development process (Chapter 4) and emphasizes
on specific experiences of NGOs (Chapter 5).
Available in English and French
• Capacity development and partnership : overview and methodology (2008)
This document is based on the experiences and lessons learned by Handicap International teams
and partner organisations in relation to capacity development and developing partnerships
between 2001 and 2007, following the creation of the partnership tools. It is the result of
reading key documents and of communication between professionals between 2001 and 2007. It
has been written as a guide for Handicap International staff.
Available in English and French
Local inclusive development
• Le développement local inclusif à Madagascar : de la reconnaissance de la citoyenneté des
personnes handicapées au renforcement des politiques locales de développement (2010)
As part of the project "City and Disability", an inclusive local development experience (DLI),
conducted from 2007 to 2010 in the cities of Tamatave and Tulear, aimed to strengthen the
participation of disabled persons in the life of the city. More specifically, its objectives were to
fight against their social and economic exclusion and to encourage greater inclusion of disability
- and more generally of vulnerable populations - in local development policies. This experiment
demonstrates that the inclusive local development carries a double dynamic: on the one hand it
contributes to the recognition of the citizenship of disabled people, and the other is a lever for
strengthening the relevant municipal policy development.
Available in French
• Inclusive local development: How to implement a disability approach at local level (2009)
This policy paper deals with Handicap International’s mandate and values in the field of the
inclusive local development. It is an action guide that presents the approaches and reference
tools for Handicap International’s actions, choices and commitments. It explains Handicap
International’s current work on inclusive local development and gives indications for future
possibilities and potential limitations. The aim is to promote consistency in the practices of
various programmes working in the area of inclusive local development, while taking into
account the different contexts and circumstances encountered.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
Accessibility
• Conduct an accessibility audit in low- and middle-income countries (2014)
This aim of this guide is to assist the various participants in an accessibility audit. Within the
framework of inclusive local development, an accessibility audit is a complex, substantial and
technical process to implement: Complex, because it involves the participation of a large number
of different stakeholders who are not necessarily used to being together, working together and
who may not know each other / Substantial, because it requires considerable preparation time so
that the stakeholders involved are as well prepared as possible / Technical, because it requires
some rather specialised skills when recommendations to remove the identified obstacles start to
come together. An accessibility audit is a formidable exercise in participatory democracy which,
in the long term, can be used as the basis to formalise the relationship between stakeholders in a
municipality accessibility commission or even a municipality commission for inclusive
development, which will have responsibility for suggesting, studying, organising and
implementing actions to improve accessibility, with, of course, dialogue as the guiding thread.
Available in English and French
• Making public drinking fountains accessible to all (2012)
This document aims to share knowledge from the experience of making drinking fountains
accessible in Majunga (Madagascar). This capitalization highlights successes, expertise but also
the difficulties and issues faced in the field of water accessibility. Furthermore, this
documentation has come from Handicap International's ambition to have an in-depth analysis of
the approach and the implementation process involving a wide range of stakeholders working
together towards the same goal: access to water for all. The idea is therefore to analyse the
processes behind running a network and capacity building, to describe how the various
stakeholders led and adopted this project's various phases and activities and finally to see how
this could be replicated for future projects.
Available in English and French
• Accessibility: How to design and promote an environment accessible to all (2009)
This document is a tool to help develop accessibility as a theme in its own right. It aims to
support projects that include accessibility as a major theme, as well as numerous projects that
include specific, one-off activities aimed at facilitating access for people with disabilities.
Available in English and French / Available in English and French brief
Technical publications related to Emergency Response
• Les Relais Handicap et Vulnérabilité (Disability and Vulnerability Focal Points ou DVFP)
(2014)
This guide offers general principles of intervention, methodological guidance and practical files
on setting up a Disability and Vulnerability Focal Point (DVFP) mechanism in an emergency
setting. It is intended for all Handicap International professionals responsible for developing,
implementing or analysing this type of intervention.
Available in French, soon in English
Together with Rehabilitation Services Unit
• The provision of wheeled mobility and positioning devices: Integrating wheelchair provision
into rehabilitation systems: Focus on emergency contexts (2013)
This policy brief is an introduction to Handicap International’s 2013 Policy Paper on the
provision of wheelchairs in emergency settings.
Available in English and French brief
Together with Prevention and Health Unit
• Protection against violence based on gender, age and disability in emergency and
development settings (2013)
This guidance note sets out the points of reference for Handicap International’s protection
related interventions in emergency and development settings. It defines the thematic area,
explains its intersection with the organisation’s mandate, the areas of intervention (expected
results, activities) and future perspectives for working in this sector.
Available in English and French
• Mental health and psychosocial support interventions in emergency and post-crisis settings
(2013)
This guide sets out the general principles of intervention with methodological advice and
practical files on mental health and psychosocial support in emergency and post-crisis
situations.
Available in English and French
Technical publications related to Landmines Response
• An impact assessment of the armed violence reduction project in North Western Kenya
(2015)
This report discusses an impact assessment of the armed violence reduction (AVR) project in
North Western Kenya. The impact assessment was made possible via the administration of the
Pre & Post-Impact Assessments (PIA) survey. The PIA survey was designed for two purposes.
Firstly, it was designed to establish a baseline on: i) the levels of community knowledge
regarding small arms and sexual and gender based violence, ii) the perceived prevalence of
armed violence in the targeted regions, iii) the safety perceptions within the targeted
communities, and iv) the knowledge within the targeted communities of appropriate reporting
and security structures. The second function of the PIA was to act as an impact assessment tool
of the five-month AVR project. The current publication focuses entirely on the impact
assessment of the AVR project and the development of recommendations for future
implementation phases.
Available in English
• Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Survey: Mine Risk Education in South Sudan (2013)
This document presents the results of a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) survey
related to landmines and UXO. It was undertaken between May and August 2013 in South Sudan.
Available in English
• Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices for Risk Education: How to implement KAP surveys
(2009)
This guide presents 6 practical stages to implement KAP surveys (Knowledge Attitudes
Practices) related to landmine and unexploded ordnance.
Available in English and French
Cross-cutting publications
Access to services
• Representation and Evaluation of Disability in Haiti (2013)
Handicap International and the International Center for Evidence in Disability (IDED) at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) joined forces to carry out a crosssectional study to analyse the situation in which people with disabilities found themselves in
Port-au-Prince in 2012, and thereby identify the operational mechanisms by which the needs of
people with disabilities can be best met. Specific objectives: (1) Provide statistically reliable data
on disability and people with disabilities in Port-au-Prince; (2) Provide a snapshot of the situation
for people with disabilities and compare it to a control group without disabilities in order to
reveal restrictions on participation and barriers that specifically affect the study population; (3)
Investigate from a qualitative perspective people with disabilities’ difficulties in terms of
inclusion, access and social participation.
Available in English and French / Available in scientific summary (English / French) and in
brief (English / French)
• Representation and Evaluation of Disability in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Methodological report
(2013)
This document presents the methodology used to assess the magnitude of disability and service
needs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The survey process was divided into three phases: 1. a populationbased prevalence survey, to get an estimation of disability prevalence in the study area; 2. a
disability study, to collect specific data on disability from people with disabilities; 3. a nested
case-control study to compare people with disabilities to those without disabilities.
Available in English
• L’accès aux services des personnes handicapées dans 7 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (2011)
A series of documents was carried out under the project DECISIPH (Equal Citizenship Law
Solidarity Inclusion of People with Disabilities), West African regional program coordinated by
Handicap International in Dakar (Senegal), for a period of six years (2008-2013). One study,
midterm, was conducted in different areas of intervention with the aim to compare within each
country the conditions of access to services for people with disabilities compared to people
without disabilities. A cross-sectional questionnaire has been conducted. A report about each
country was published, and a document proposes a synthesis.
Synthesis: available in English and French / Mali: available in French / Togo: available in
French / Burkina Faso: available in French / Niger: available in French / Senegal: available in
French / Benin: available in French / Sierra Leone: available in English
• Access to services for persons with disabilities (2010)
This guide focuses on a systemic approach of services including the policy of a country or a
given sector (sectoral policies) practice (supply service) and people's lives. It contains three
parts. The first establishes the basis of a shared vision of the key determinants of access to
services. The second part presents the steps involved in planning at a program level. These steps
help to define parameters for analysis and decision, in agreement with the specificities of
Handicap International. The third section offers practical tools that can implement the various
techniques proposed in the Guidelines.
Available in English and French
• Building Expertise on Community Services for Persons with Disabilities (2010)
This kit was designed as an Expert Training program, with the aim to enhance local expertise in
the domain of service delivery and to support a group of high profiled and accredited experts
who would be able to provide on a long term a professional support for authorities, service
providers and users’ organisations. The Kit has been developed with the intention to support any
actor involved in enhancing access to services for persons with disabilities in countries where
this sector is undergoing construction, reconstruction, reforms or modernisation.
Available in English
• Access to services for persons with disabilities in challenging environments (2010)
This publication presents a collection of articles by Handicap International staff, field partners
and international experts. It follows directly from the exchanges during the seminar on access to
services in Amman in December 2009. The collection consists of research, policy initiatives and
case studies of differing perspectives on theme of access to services, and is intended to fuel
information sharing, knowledge development and collective understanding.
Available in English and French
• People with disabilities in the suburban areas of Maputo and Matola: Social representation
of disability, Socio-economic situation, Access to health and social services, Local
stakeholders system (2010)
This report outlines the analyses and recommendations arising from the local assessment of the
situation facing people with disabilities in nine of the capital’s suburban areas, performed by
RAVIM and Handicap International between April 2009 and April 2010, as part of the “City and
Disability” project. This assessment aimed to provide more information about the social
representation of disability in the area, the socio-economic situation experienced by people with
disabilities, the conditions for accessing health and social services, and lastly the operation of
the local stakeholders system. From a methodological point of view, the socio-anthropological
approach was complemented by an epidemiological investigation.
Available in English, French and Portuguese (synthesis)
Impact Monitoring Evaluation
• Measuring quality of life, safety, and social and family participation of project beneficiaries:
The ScoPeO tool (2014)
This guide presents ScoPeO, a tool for measuring changes in living conditions as perceived by
beneficiaries once a project is implemented. More specifically, the method serves to evaluate
quality of life, perception of safety and participation in society and family life in two phases:
before or at the start of the project (baseline survey) and at the end of the project (endline
survey). Thus, this guide presents concepts related to quality of life and similar notions, the key
phases in the process and provides the tools needed to conduct a study on quality of life.
Available in English, French and Spanish
• Resource Kit: Methodology of project (2008)
This kit presents the key methodological concepts and ideas that are needed to draw up,
implement, monitor and evaluate our projects, mainly our development activities, whilst
respecting the quality requirements established by our beneficiaries, partners and funders.
Available in English and French
Knowledge management
• Selection of key figures in Handicap International's sectors of activity (2015)
Handicap International makes frequent use of statistics in its various activities for purposes
such as providing evidence for research subjects, supporting training, awareness-raising and
advocacy actions or illustrating a press release. Whatever the objective, quantitative data
combined with qualitative data play a key role in identifying gaps, understanding barriers and in
the implementation of solutions or initiatives for bringing about improvements. This document
lists the key global statistics for all of Handicap International’s sectors of activity. The
quotations it contains are extracted from world reports (including the World Report on Disability)
published by international organisations, scientific studies and articles. Its purpose is to help
Handicap International’s teams find up-to-date key statistics for use in their activity.
Available in English and French
• The knowledge management for Handicap International (2014)
This guidance note presents the vision of knowledge management for Handicap International.
It defines the associated processes and clarifies: The key stages of the process; Key
stakeholders; Working methods; Future challenges and priorities of action.
Available in English and French
• Research at Handicap International (2014)
This guidance note has a number of objectives: To assert Handicap International’s intention to
develop this technical and scientific area of activity; To provide a shared vision of research to
ensure the coherency of the activities conducted within the organisation; To help provide a
reference framework for future research activities; To foster the kind of environment that
encourages research and innovation, both at head office and in the field; To explain the different
stages involved in developing research activities at Handicap International.
Available in English and French
• Learning lessons from experience (2014)
This practical guide on learning lessons from experience is for all Handicap International staff
(individuals and teams) who intend to conduct or support lesson learning from a project or
programme experience. The guide is organised into three main sections. Principles and
Benchmarks: this section provides important definitions and a framework for understanding how
lesson learning occurs within Handicap International programmes. Planning: this section offers
practical advice for planning a lesson learning process. It explains how to formulate clear Terms
of Reference; how to select a methodology; and how to prepare a detailed Action Plan.
Implementation tools: this section offers practical tools to help implement an effective lesson
learning process, including: how to capture, formalise and publish lessons learned; how to
disseminate your publication: and how to influence change.
Available in English and French
• Orientation Note about disability-related data in National Censuses (2014)
This note aims to equip Handicap International programs and technical advisors with key
information on what is a census, what census data can be used for and what are limits of using
this type of survey. It proposes a common way for supporting quantitative disability data
collection and analysis of national censuses. It promotes using the globally tested identification
tool proposed by Washington Group to identify those persons with disabilities who are at greater
risk of experiencing limitations in participation than other parts of the population.
Available in English and French
• The writing project: from ideas to publication (2011)
This guide helps the authors to effectively structure their work, and to have tools throughout the
writing phase. It contributes to accelerate and enhance the writing process, and increases
responsiveness in sharing and dissemination of knowledge.
Available in English and French