
Resources & Research
Building the evidence base is essential if we are to achieve sustainable change for people with disabilities.
Search or browse our reports, briefings and resources which bring together the expertise and experiences of CBM and partners on topics including:
- disability-inclusive development
- disability-inclusive humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction
- inclusive education
- inclusive eye health.
CBM Global Climate Advocacy Roadmap
Download resourceThe purpose of the roadmap is to set out our intended direction of travel for climate advocacy (2023 – 2026). Our hope is that international, regional and national level climate policies will fully reflect the inclusion of persons with disabilities. This is needed in advance of the Global Disability Summit in 2025 so as to help shape upcoming global processes for future development frameworks.
Understanding Stigma: Listening to people living with NTDs in Nigeria
Download resourceIn this paper we hear from people living with leprosy and lymphatic filariasis in Nigeria. Their testimonies were gathered through focus group discussions and key informant interviews conducted as part of the Mind Skin Link project in Nigeria.
The Impact of Climate Change from people with disabilities in the places we work
Download resourceCBM Global recognises that climate change disproportionately affects 1.3 billion people with disabilities living around the world in complex and interconnected ways. In this document, you will find perspectives from the people that we work with and how CBM Global is responding.
Project evidence brief #3: Disability inclusion and economic empowerment
Download resourceIn the third in our series of CBM UK Project Evidence Briefs and Infographics, we publish the key lessons from our Inclusive Savings and Loans Associations project in Uganda. The Brief provides valuable insights into how economic empowerment can increase inclusion of people with disabilities.
Project evidence brief #4: Adapted VSLAs supporting inclusion of persons with disabilities
Download resourceProject Evidence Brief #4: Adapted Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) supporting inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, presents lessons from our SaveAbility project in Rwanda.
CBM UK Safeguarding Policy
Download resourceThis policy applies to all employees of CBM UK and all staff contracted by CBM UK and associated personnel whilst engaged with work or visits related to or under the direction or care of CBM UK.
Disability Inclusive Cash Transfer: Lessons from the humanitarian response to Cyclone Amphan
Download resourceThis learning document highlights good practices and lessons from this response and is intended to provide guidance to NGOs, state actors and OPDs to create inclusive responses and deliver equal outcomes through inclusive Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in humanitarian action.
Missing in Climate Action: Stories of persons with disabilities from the Global South
Download resourceThis publication tells the story of the people, the individuals and communities affected by climate change, yet absent from key conversations and actions on climate. Its purpose is to amplify the perspectives of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations and by doing so make a small contribution into an under researched area.
Climate Change and Disability Rights: Discussion Paper (June 2023)
Download resourceDoes the climate crisis impact implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)? A 3-country study.
Project Evidence Brief #2: A holistic approach to improving employment inclusion for deaf employees
Download resourceThis second publication, in new series of CBM UK Project Evidence Briefs and Infographics, presents a holistic approach to improving employment inclusion for deaf employees, drawing on key lessons from the i2i project in Kenya.
Project Evidence Brief #1: How to include people with ear and hearing conditions in the healthcare system
Download resourceIn the first of a new series of CBM UK Project Evidence Briefs and Infographics, we publish the key lessons from our five-year PrevENT project in Zambia. The Brief provides an outline of how to improve ear and hearing services in resource-constrained settings.
Missing in Climate Action: Stories of persons with disabilities from the Global South
Download resourceThis report shares the experiences of people with disabilities affected by the climate crisis in Madagascar and Bangladesh and explores how they are involved in responding to it.
Case Study – Climate Change and its Humanitarian Consequences: The impact on persons with disabilities in Southern Madagascar
Download resourceFunded by the Global Greengrants Fund and the humanitarian response initiated by CBM Global, this study shares learnings on the impact of the climate crisis in Madagascar, the on-going food crisis and the challenges faced by persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in accessing humanitarian assistance.
Case study: Nepal’s changing climate & its impact on communities including people with disabilities
Download resourceThe purpose of the case study is to highlight the impact of climate induced disasters on people living in poverty who have much less adaptive capacity to respond to the negative and sometimes devastating impact of climate change.
Lessons learned from partnerships with organisations of persons with disabilities
Download resourceCBM Global partners with organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in its international work, country-level advocacy, and
grassroots programming. During 2020-2021 a listening exercise was conducted across fourteen countries and 32 organisations to see how the partnerships were working, and what could be strengthened. This report shares the learnings.