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What are reasonable accomodations?

A reasonable accommodation is any administrative, environmental or procedural changes enabling persons with disabilities to fully participate in economic activities and education and enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment or fully access services and livelihood interventions.

Reasonable accommodation may be provided for persons with disabilities, whether the disability is an existing or an acquired condition, or of a temporary or permanent nature.

Most importantly, work with individuals to discuss their support needs and how these could be accommodated by the support services, facilities and funds available.

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Why Should IFAD target people with disabilities?

The World Health Organisation estimates that 15 percent of the world’s population has a disability, 80 percent of whom live in developing countries ¹. Yet, persons with disabilities are still invisible and often left behind. They are overrepresented among the poor. IFAD is the only specialized global development organization exclusively dedicated to transforming agriculture, rural economies and food systems to make them more inclusive, productive, resilient and sustainable. In accordance with its Targeting Policy, IFAD specializes in working in the most fragile and remote areas and with the most marginalized and vulnerable people. To address the issues of inclusive rural transformation, IFAD must also design projects and programmes that purposely include those poor and vulnerable populations with disabilities.

What does inclusive communication mean?

Inclusive communication relates to all modes of communication including written information, online information, telephone, and face to face. It involves sharing information in a way that everybody can understand and implies the use of tools that are necessary for supporting specific communication needs of an individual with disabilities.

When communicating face to face, this could mean sitting down to speak to a wheelchair user at eye level, writing a note to a person with a hearing impairment, or speaking in simple language for a person with an intellectual impairment. If you feel confused about the best way to communicate with a person, feel free to ask!

You can make reports, and communications materials inclusive by producing comprehensive materials in varried formats, adding alt text to photos, and captions to videos

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