Development for All
Towards a disability-inclusive Australian aid
program 2009–2014

Achievement highlights—the first two years

Australia is strongly committed to the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
People with disability are entitled to the same rights as all others.
Australia formally recognised this by ratifying the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2008, and
acceding to the Optional Protocol in 2009. In this context, people with
disability are viewed as citizens with rights, not objects of charity.
The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full
and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all
people with disability, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.
Article 32 of the Convention requires parties to ensure that international
cooperation, including international development programs, is inclusive
of and accessible to people with disability.
Australia recognises that to meet our obligations under the Convention
and achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it is essential that
international cooperation not only reaches people with disability—who
make up 20 per cent of the poorest—but also empowers them to play an
active role in development processes.

Ministerial foreword

I am very proud to release this first report
on our progress towards ensuring that
Australian aid benefits people with disability.
Ten percent of the world’s population—an
estimated 650 million people—are living
with disability and 80 per cent of these
people live in developing countries. In Asia
and the Pacific region this translates to more than 400 million people,
across all communities.
All too frequently, people with disability do not share the same rights and
cannot access the same services as others. They are much less likely to
go to school, get a job, own a home or have a family. A range of barriers
prevent them from fully participating in social, economic and political
life. Existing development programs do not always reach the poorest of
the poor—only 3 to 4 per cent of people with disability are estimated to
benefit from international development assistance.
In December 2008, on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, I declared in Parliament the Australian Government’s
commitment to advancing human rights at home as well as abroad. One
of the most important ways Australia can contribute to advancing human
rights is through achieving the Millennium Development Goals for all.

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We moved quickly to put this commitment into action with the launch
of the first disability strategy for Australia’s aid program—Development
for All: Towards a disability-inclusive Australian aid program 2009–2014.
In May 2010, the government reaffirmed this commitment to people
with disability through a new $30.2 million budget initiative to fund the
disability-specific measures in the strategy, bringing the total budget
allocated to disability since 2008 to $88 million.
This report highlights the early achievements in making Australia’s
aid program more effective through a focus on including people with
disability. I am especially pleased to see the contribution and strong
leadership from people with disability and our partner governments in
promoting inclusive national development.
This is a solid beginning, but it is just a beginning. There is much
more that can be done and the Australian Government remains
committed to pursuing the vision articulated in Development for All
in the coming years.

Kevin Rudd
Minister for Foreign Affairs
December 2010

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Contents

Ministerial foreword
Introduction
People with disability: speaking out on disability rights
Building strong, effective disabled people’s organisations
Active central role for people with disability
Partner governments meeting the needs of all citizens
Education for all children
Accessible environments
Changing how AusAID works: improving aid effectiveness
Australian leadership to mobilise global action
and resources
Senior Australian officials advocating for disability rights
AusAID: an open, accessible and inclusive organisation
AusAID disability and development resources

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Introduction

In November 2008, Australia launched its first disability strategy for
the aid program—Development for All: Towards a disability-inclusive
Australian aid program—marking a change in the way the aid program
is designed and delivered. Two years into its implementation, there are
strong signs that the strategy is working and improving the reach and
effectiveness of Australia’s aid program.
People with disability are increasingly taking a central role in decision
making, ensuring that policies and programs are shaped to better take
account of their requirements.
Australia’s partnerships with the governments of Cambodia and
East Timor are bolstering efforts towards more equitable national
development that benefits all citizens, including people with disability.
Our international leadership in this area is reaping tangible benefits.
The global community is increasing the priority given to disability. More
resources are being allocated to effect change. This is especially evident
in ensuring that people with disability are no longer invisible from global
action to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
AusAID is progressively changing how we work to ensure that people
with disability participate in, contribute to and benefit equally from
Australia’s aid program. Our processes and systems and information
about our programs are becoming increasingly accessible to and
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programs are being strengthened by better analysis on the situation of
people with disability and their families and communities.
Given that people with disability make up at least 20 per cent of the
poorest in developing countries, these improvements in how Australian
aid is being designed and delivered will go a long way to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals.

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Pictured are the first Samoan students with hearing impairment that are accessing secondary education in 
a regular setting at Faatuatua Christian Secondary School in Samoa.
Back row (L-R): Melissa Resitala, Leone L Peteru, Cassandra Havili. Front row (L-R): Seinafo Mavaega, 
Simona Simati, Russell Watts, Maselina Iuta, Eli Tafola
Photo: Sue Rasmussen, Photo Centre

With Australian support through the Samoa Inclusive Education Demonstration
Program, SENESE is assisting local staff at Faatuatua to include students who are
deaf in school lessons. Two of these students have completed work experience in
2010 and have gained full-time employment for 2011 as a result. Families of these
children receive support in their village by a local outreach worker who teaches
weekly sign language lessons. SENESE is also being supported by Australian
volunteer Russell Watts to train local staff in advanced-level interpreting.

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People with disability:
speaking out on disability rights

People with disability traditionally have lacked a voice on the global
social, political and economic stage. In developing countries, the
conservative estimate is that they make up 20 per cent of the poorest.
For development to reach and benefit all, people with disability must be
included as active participants.
Empowerment and active participation of people with disability is an
important objective of Australia’s Development for All strategy.

Having a voice—the Disability Rights Fund
Australia contributes to and is a steering committee member of the Disability
Rights Fund. This global pooled fund enables disabled people’s organisations
(DPOs) to raise awareness and support efforts towards achieving the
objectives of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
From 2008–09 to 2010–11 Australia will have contributed $2 million to
the Disability Rights Fund, enabling it to expand its reach to DPOs in
14 Pacific Island countries and Indonesia. Examples of projects funded in
the region include:
> $20 000 to People with Disabilities Solomon Islands to expand
awareness of the Convention through outreach to remote areas and
building partnerships with service providers and other DPOs
> $15 000 to Fiji Youth Champs for Mental Health to build a media bank of
youth who speak out about their experience with psycho-social disabilities.

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Disability Rights Fund Director Diana Samarasan visits grantee Little People of Uganda.  
Photo: Frederick Ouko Alucheli, Disability Rights Fund Advisor

Little People of Uganda is a marginalised group, excluded even from their national
disability movement. Through a $5000 grant from the Disability Rights Fund in 2009,
Little People of Uganda gathered their membership from across the country to learn
about the Convention and to build an advocacy plan addressing their rights. Within
a few months, they had gained national media attention and secured a meeting with
the Commissioner for Disability and the Elderly. During a meeting of fund grantees,
they successfully confronted their exclusion from the disability movement. Today,
with additional financial support, Little People of Uganda is collecting data on and
addressing human rights abuses against people of short stature in Uganda.

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Building strong, effective disabled
people’s organisations

DPOs are organisations established and run by people with disability.
They work towards inclusive, barrier-free and gender-equitable societies
that recognise the rights, citizenship, participation and contributions of
people with disability. DPOs are mandated under the Convention to work
with governments for the achievement of rights of people with disability.
As people with disability are often denied access to education and other
development opportunities, they can lack basic literacy, numeracy and
computer skills as well as experience in organisational management.
An important early initiative under Development for All has been
assisting DPOs to strengthen their capacity to deliver on their mandate
to drive more equitable development.
> In 2009, Australia provided $150 000 to people with disability and
their representative organisations in Cambodia to strengthen
capacity in rural provinces and provide opportunities to develop
leadership skills. Around 80 people with disability received leadership
training in 2009–10, including provincial members. More than
60 people with disability are enrolled in English language courses
which will enable them to apply for Australian Development
Scholarships in 2012.

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> Australia has partnered with the Government of New Zealand to
support the Pacific Disability Forum, the Pacific region’s umbrella DPO.
Since 2009, Australia’s support of $450 000 is enabling the forum to
increase the scale and effectiveness of its activities. These include
strengthening members’ capacity to raise awareness of disability
rights and to provide advice to governments on policies and budgets,
to ensure equal access and full participation by people with disability.

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Setareki S Macanawai, Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Disability Forum (centre), chairing a panel discussion 
at the 2010 Australian Disability and Development Consortium Conference with Dame Carol Kidu, DBE, 
Minister for Community Development in Papua New Guinea (right), and David Lewis, CBM Australia (left). 
Photo: Christine Walton, Australian Disability and Development Consortium

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Australia supported the inaugural Pacific Islands Forum Disability Ministers’ Meeting in the Cook Islands, 
October 2009. For the first time, civil society including DPOs were engaged as formal members of the 
delegations to the forum.  

Photo: Pacific Islands Forum  Secretariat

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Active central role for people
with disabilty

People with disability are best placed to inform and guide decisions,
policies and programs to ensure their particular requirements are
accounted for. However, they have historically been left out of
consultation and decision-making processes.
Development for All recognises that how the aid program works is as
important as what is done. Promoting and enabling active participation
of people with disability is a fundamental guiding principle for AusAID’s
work.

People with disability improving aid effectiveness
AusAID is increasingly including people with disability in program design
and decision-making and measuring outcomes of development activities
so that Australian aid reaches and benefits everyone.
> People with disability have been represented on the Australian
Development Research Awards selection committee since 2008.
> The Pacific Disability Forum was consulted on the design of the new
phase of the Australia–Pacific Technical College.
> AusAID’s scholarships team has engaged a consultant with disability
to develop a reasonable adjustments policy—improving access to
appropriate assistance so scholars with disabilities can fulfil their
learning objectives.

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Disability-Inclusive Development Reference Group
In June 2009, AusAID established a Disability-Inclusive Development
Reference Group to provide high-level guidance and help shape the
implementation of Development for All. The five-member reference
group is an honorary panel of leaders drawn from development agencies,
civil society and academia. The group has extensive experience in
inclusive development and includes people with disability.
The reference group has convened four times with the most recent
meeting held in Cambodia in August 2010. Group members met with
Australian Embassy staff, Cambodian Government counterparts, DPOs
and NGOs. They witnessed first-hand the Australian aid program’s
positive impact on Cambodian people with disability and broadened
their understanding of how Development for All is changing AusAID’s
work abroad.

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Members of AusAID’s Disability-Inclusive Development Reference Group 
with AusAID Director Disability-Inclusive Development, Kristen Pratt, 
and observer Ingar Düring, Head of the Sector Initiative Persons with 
Disabilities, Social Protection Section, GTZ, during their August 2010 
meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 
Reference group member Rosemary Kayess, Visiting Fellow, International 
Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, was 
unable to be present for this photo.
Front (L–R): Kristen Pratt; Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Senior Operations 
Officer, World Bank; Megan McCoy, Pacific Regional Human Development 
Programme Officer, NZAID.
Back (L–R): Christine Walton, Executive Officer, Australian Disability and 
Development Consortium; Setareki S Macanawai, Chief Executive Officer, 
Pacific Disability Forum; Ingar Düring.
Photo: Sokunthea Chhor

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Partner governments meeting the
needs of all citizens

Good governance meets the needs of all citizens, including people with
disability. Australia is supporting partner governments’ efforts where
there is strong national commitment and action to ensure the rights of
people with disability.

East Timor
The Government of East Timor has demonstrated an increasing
commitment to ensuring that its citizens with disability are able to
participate in, contribute to and benefit from national development.
In 2009, Australia provided $300 000 to enable the Ministry of Social
Solidarity to finalise East Timor’s disability strategy and implementation
framework. This assistance also included support for:
> establishing a government–civil society working group to oversee policy
implementation, including the membership of East Timor’s first DPO, the
Association for the Equality of the Disabled People of Timor, or ASSERT
> expanding community-based rehabilitation to promote collaboration
among local leaders, people with disability, their families, and other
concerned citizens to provide equal opportunities for all people in
the community
> developing the draft ‘National disability policy for Timor-Leste—
Towards a disability-inclusive Timor-Leste’ for public comment. The
document is expected to be finalised in late 2010.

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Cambodia
In February 2009, Australia recognised the Royal Government of
Cambodia’s commitment to addressing the barriers experienced by
people with disability in accessing social and economic opportunities.
Australia has provided $1.5 million in support since 2009 towards efforts
for inclusive national development. The Royal Government of Cambodia’s
achievements include:
> enacting a law to promote the rights of people with disability
> developing a national plan of action for people with disability
> appointing a national disability-inclusive development adviser to
strengthen leadership and management of the disability sector and
work of staff in relevant ministries
> establishing a technical working group to implement a 10-stage
process towards ratification of the Convention.

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Mr Yi Veasna, Director of Cambodia’s 
National Centre of Disabled People, 
speaking at the national workshop in 
May 2010 to promote the adoption of 
the law and endorsement of the national 
plan of action. Australia’s Ambassador, 
HE Ms Margaret Adamson, was a keynote 
speaker at the workshop, which drew 
more than 300 attendees. Photo: AusAID

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Education for all children

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‘Strikingly, 98 per cent of children with disabilities in developing countries do not
attend school.’
UNESCO, Policy brief on early childhood, June 2009

Australia recognises that education is a great enabler. It opens two
doors—social inclusion and economic opportunities—and is the
platform for all other development objectives.
Universal primary education goals set out in MDG 2 will not be met
unless barriers to education for children with disability are removed.
Australia is working to address the range of barriers, such as
inaccessible school buildings, poorly trained teachers, inflexible
curricula and a lack of disability-specific resources. Stigma and societal
prejudices that fail to acknowledge the capacity and strengths of
children with disabilities are also being addressed.
> In Samoa, Australia provided $1.3 million in 2009–10 to support
the transition of children with hearing impairment and intellectual
disability from primary to secondary school. The Ministry of Education,
Sports and Culture is developing inclusive education policies and
programs with our support.
> In Indonesia, the Australia Indonesia Basic Education Program is
developing ministerial regulations on inclusive education, training
personnel from the 2000 schools in the program, and piloting a model
for inclusive education in five districts.

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Front (L): Robert Yendegl, student at Taurama Primary School in Papua New Guinea. Photo: Rocky Roe

Robert Yendegl dreams of becoming a pilot—and he wants to fly big planes, not
small ones. Robbie is in Grade 5 at Taurama Primary School, a small mainstream
school on the outskirts of Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea’s Department of
Education is focusing its efforts for students like Robbie, by training teachers
to integrate students with special needs into mainstream schools. While some
encouraging work is underway, there are still challenges.
‘It basically comes down to a lack of manpower’, explained Jennifer Tamarua, who is
Head of Inclusive Education with the Department of Education. There are 21 Special
Education Resource Centres covering 17 provinces in Papua New Guinea, with 4 to 11
staff in each centre.
‘If we can reach up to 10 schools each year, and bring them on board to thinking
about students with a disability and how they can best educate them in the context
of a mainstream education system, we are getting there’, said Mrs Tamarua.
And as for Robbie, the 12-year-old has a big goal for 2011: to be a vice class captain.

> In Papua New Guinea, Australia has provided disability-inclusive
training to 50 Special Education Resource Centre staff, 25 teacher
education lecturers and approximately 300 school-based counselors.

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Accessible environments

Accessible, barrier-free built environments are essential for making sure
that people with disability can participate in all areas of community life.
However, many cannot access services or the communities in which
they live. Accessible infrastructure provides a better environment for all,
including older people, people with temporary impairments, pregnant
women and parents with young children.
Australia is working with partners to ensure that new roads, buildings,
facilities and transport, including rebuilding after natural disasters and
conflict, are accessible to all.
> In Indonesia, approximately 1000 junior secondary schools
constructed with Australian assistance have been built with ramps
and accessible toilets, enhancing access to education for students
with disability.
> The Australia – Papua New Guinea Basic Education Development
Program is supporting the Department of Education to produce
infrastructure guidelines for elementary, community and primary
schools, including access for students with disability.
> A new AusAID Civil Society Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Fund of
$32.6 million will strengthen NGO activities to improve water quality,
sanitation and hygiene, ensuring access for people with disability.

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Local work crews outside the Auki Courthouse in Malaita, Solomon Islands. Photo: Sinclair Knight Merz

Funded by Australia through the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands,
the Auki Courthouse was modified during construction to comply with Development
for All. The toilet, bathroom and kitchen facilities are accessible for people with
disability and a ramp was added to improve access to the courtrooms and registry.

> Jointly supported by the Australian and New Zealand governments,
the Pacific Eye Institute in Fiji provides eye care training for
ophthalmologists, doctors and nurses from around the Pacific and
served 20 000 patients in 2009. Universal design principles were
applied in the design and construction of the institute’s new building
so that it can be accessed by everyone. The building will be a model of
accessible infrastructure in the Pacific.
Universal design guidelines are being finalised by AusAID to provide
advice on how Australian aid activities involving the development of
infrastructure (schools, health facilities, public buildings, roads and
transport) can be more accessible to people with disability.

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Changing how AusAID works:
improving aid effectiveness

Significant progress has been made to ensure that information about
AusAID’s programs is available in accessible formats. Increasingly,
programs are being designed and delivered so that people with
disability are included and benefit from them—making the aid program
more effective.

Joel has just completed a master’s degree
in information technology at the University
of Southern Queensland, which will help
him overcome barriers to employment. The
lack of adaptive supports and negative
social attitudes have made it difficult for
Joel as a person with a hearing impairment
in Papua New Guinea. ‘I wanted to show
them that I can do it’, said Joel, who now
has an ambition to return to Papua New
Guinea and establish e-learning and distance
education opportunities for other students
with disability. In 2010, Joel was among the
first cohort of scholars awarded a Prime
Minister’s Pacific–Australia Award, which
provides work placement and leadership
training opportunities.

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Joel Silas, an Australian Development 
Scholarship graduate at the University of 
Southern Queensland. Photo: Shannon 
Svenson, University of Southern Queensland

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> Since 2008, 120 students, most of whom were people with disability,
have studied disability and development through the Australian 
Leadership Award Fellowships.
> From 2009, Australia’s Human Rights Small Grants Scheme has
included a focus on disability rights. In the 2009 funding round, five
of the 36 successful projects and almost $400 000 was provided to
organisations promoting rights of people with disability in Burkina
Faso, Iraq, Jamaica, Somaliland and Togo.
> Since 2008, 107 Australian volunteers have contributed to disability-
related fields during their placements overseas. Almost 25 per cent
of the current Australian volunteers in Bangladesh are working with
locals with disability.
> Australian Development Research Awards guidelines have been
revised to include disability as a priority theme of research. In 2008
and 2009, Australian and international partners were awarded a total
of nearly $2 million to:
– develop efficient ways of measuring the effectiveness of
development activities that focus on or include people with disability
– investigate the economic costs of disability-related stigma in Vietnam
– examine ways to improve access for people with disability through
inclusive infrastructure development in Papua New Guinea.
> Australian Development Scholarships guidelines have been revised
to promote access and inclusion, which has resulted in an increasing
number of scholars with disability. Africa and Pakistan programs now
include specific targets for awarding scholarships to people with
disability or for study in a disability-related field.

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Australian leadership to mobilise
global action and resources

‘The government … stands proudly in the strong tradition of the defence and
promotion of human rights … [W]e believe in a creative use of diplomacy to build
stronger human rights protections in every part of the world. Today this House
affirms again … our resolve as a nation, as a government and as a people to work on
our own soil and to work with governments around the world towards the realisation
of these rights for all peoples.’
Kevin Rudd, then Prime Minister of Australia, speech to the Parliament on the 60th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 2008

Australia’s increased focus and leadership on disability-inclusive
development has contributed to a stronger response from the
global community.
> Australia provided $200 000 to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
to host the inaugural Forum Disability Ministers’ Meeting in the Cook
Islands, held in October 2009. Ministers, government representatives
and DPOs all worked together to finalise and endorse the Pacific
Regional Strategy on Disability 2010–2015 at the meeting. This
was the first time a forum ministers’ meeting included community
representatives. Contributions by people with disability were welcomed
and demonstrated the value of inclusive development partnerships.
> Australia played a lead role in forming the resolution ‘Realizing
the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities’,
which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in
November 2009.

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Senior representatives at the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with 
Disabilities Australia–UNICEF side event, September 2009. 
L–R: Victor Pineda, Victor Pineda Foundation; Bob McMullan, then Australian Parliamentary Secretary for 
International Development Assistance; Hilde Johnson, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF; Graeme Innes AM, 
Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner. Photo: Trevor Collins

> At the 2009 Conference of States Parties to the Convention in New
York, Australia initiated and co-hosted a major event with UNICEF on
meeting the needs of children with disability through the Convention.
UNICEF publicly committed to do more on education for children
with disability.

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Senior Australian officials
advocating for disability rights

‘Today development practices by and large exclude persons with disabilities.
Australia’s leadership in disability inclusive development is highly regarded; not
only at the strategic level such as influencing the recent UN resolution to realise
the MDGs for persons with disabilities, but also at the program level—where senior
Australian representatives are making a difference on the ground.’
Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, World Bank Senior Operations Officer

The Convention calls for shared responsibility among all stakeholders
and greater leadership by international donors so global development
efforts are inclusive of and accessible to people with disability.

Australian advocacy in Cambodia
In August 2010, AusAID’s Disability-Inclusive Development Reference
Group visited Australia’s mission in Cambodia. Australia’s Ambassador
to Cambodia, HE Ms Margaret Adamson, led a meeting of the reference
group with Minister Sam Heng, the Cambodian Minister for Social Affairs,
Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, and committed Australian support for
the government’s preparations to ratify the Convention.
The reference group recognised the impact of the mission’s high-level
engagement with the Cambodian Government to promote the inclusion
of Cambodians with disability in national development. The group
also considered the mission a model of good practice in inclusion. For
example, people with disability were recruited into temporary vacancies
which has led to permanent employment elsewhere.

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HE Mr Ian Kemish, Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, opening a refurbished 
physiotherapy centre at Cheshire Disability Services. Photo: William Natera, Department of Foreign Affairs 
and Trade
The main physiotherapy unit at Cheshire Disability Services in Papua New
Guinea received much-needed renovations, furnishings for the exercise room
and therapeutic equipment with the help of Australian Head of Mission Direct Aid
Program funding. The upgraded facility will benefit residents with disability, staff
and carers, and services will be extended to the community so that people can learn
about disability.

Australian advocacy in Papua New Guinea
In September 2010, Australia’s High Commissioner to Papua New
Guinea, HE Mr Ian Kemish, and his partner, Ms Roxanne Martens,
hosted a development partner function focused on disability-inclusive
development. At the event, the United Nations committed to lead and
coordinate donors’ actions on disability, particularly around education,
and ensure disability is added to the agenda of future development
meetings in Papua New Guinea.

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AusAID: an open, accessible and
inclusive organisation

AusAID has strengthened corporate policies and practices,
communication strategies and training programs to create a workplace
that enables and promotes the inclusion of people with disability.
> The AusAID Disability Action Plan builds on the Workplace Diversity
Program 2007–2010 and sets out performance indicators, measures
and reporting in relation to AusAID’s employer and purchaser roles.
The plan applies to all AusAID employees in Australia and overseas. It
is consistent with the Commonwealth Disability Strategy, which aims
to enable full participation of people with disability in the Australian
Government’s programs, services and facilities.
> AusAID’s London Circuit headquarters in Canberra is physically
accessible and regarded as a good practice example in the Australian
Public Service.
> AusAID has a strong focus on improving electronic publishing and
online content to ensure accessibility of online materials.
> AusAID is working towards meeting the latest international W3C Web
Content and Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), which will provide
much greater access to AusAID information for people with disability
using assistive technologies.

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Joanne Webber has been the Inclusive Development Officer for CBM Australia since February 2010 and 
has been contracted by AusAID to develop reasonable adjustment guidelines for Australia’s Development 
Scholarship programs. Coming from a background of promoting disability-inclusive education and having 
vision impairment herself, Joanne knows first-hand the impact of exclusion and the importance of an 
inclusive environment. Photo: CBM Australia

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AusAID disability and
development resources

AusAID Disability-Inclusive Development website
www.ausaid.gov.au/keyaid/disability.cfm
Development for All: Towards a disability-inclusive Australian aid
program 2009–2014
www.ausaid.gov.au/developmentforall.cfm
Development for All: Companion volume
www.ausaid.gov.au/developmentforall-companion.cfm

Abbreviations

Convention

DPO
MDG
NGO
UNICEF
W3C

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United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
disabled people’s organisation
Millennium Development Goal
non-government organisation
United Nations Children’s Fund
World Wide Web Consortium

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