Projects
Disability Inclusion in Food Security Programming
This multi-year project is a collaboration with the United Nations World Food Programme, aimed at generated evidence to inform (1) the collection of disability-related data in the largest humanitarian organization in the world; (2) inclusive processes for accountability to affected populations; (3) inclusive programme design for food assistance activities
People: Caroline Jagoe and Claire O’Reilly in collaboration with colleagues at WFP Headquarters and Country Offices across the globe.
Empowerment programmes and persons with disabilities: A contextually-sensitive investigation of what ‘works’ and why?
This project is funded by the Provost’s PhD Award.
People: Elizabeth Heideman with supervisors Caroline Jagoe and Susan Murphy
Communication accessible information
Using principles of communication access for persons with communicatin disabilities, this strand of work is practice-focused, and involves close collaboration with local focal points in the adaptation of key messages for populations affected by situations of risk. A focus on sustainable and scalable practices has led to the generation of easy to use templates and roll out of training. This project has been short listed for the DRG initiative on Promising Practices.
People: Caroline Jagoe and Claire O’Reilly in collaboration with WFP Mozambique country office, UN agencies involved the Turkiye/Syria earthquake response, and informed by the IRC Laureate-funded Co-Construct project
Disability in Somalia
A collaboration with the National Disability Agency, Somalia and the United Nations Human Rights and Protection Group, Somalia, this project explores the perceptions and priorities is persons with disabilities across six federal member states of the country.
People: Caroline Jagoe in collaboration with the National Disability Agency, Somalia and United Nations Human Rights, Somalia