International Development Grant
Reducing Unemployment Among People with Disabilities
Project Number: CA-3-S065647001
Status: Closed
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Maximum Contribution: $1,586,086.00
Start Date: January 30, 2013
End Date: December 31, 2018
Duration: 5.9 years
Project Description
This project aims to help 10 000 women and men with disabilities to find sustainable employment and increase their household incomes. The project seeks to identify and address the key causes of chronic unemployment underemployment and poverty of women and men with disabilities in Dhaka Bangladesh; Hyderabad India; and Kathmandu Nepal. It focuses on three sectors that employ a proportionally large number of people with disabilities: cottage or home-based industries the hospitality sector and food processing. The project seeks to influence small and medium enterprises to hire and promote people with disabilities as well as increase the employability of persones with disabilities. It supports 300 employers in offering work placements for people with disabilities thereby providing positive models for other employers in the target countries.
Expected Results
The expected results include: 1) Enhanced national and local enabling policy environment for the inclusion of women and men with disabilities in the labour market. 2) Increased participation of women and men with disabilities in the labour market.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of November 2014 include: (1) organizing over 25 meetings with local employers and stakeholders in India Bangladesh and Nepal to establish strategic and sustainable relationships with key partners to develop and plan workshops on the hiring of people with disabilities; (2) mobilizing over 30 employers and employers’ associations for Disability Creates Innovation in Employment Workshops; (3) conducting Disability Right to Work Workshop in Hyderabad India with the participation of over 50 people with disabilities; and (4) ensuring the coordination of monitoring teams in each country to begin data collection on gender-specific labour market & socio-cultural barriers faced by women and men with disabilities.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
York University Centre for International and Security Studies
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP