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.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Peer Support
Download resourcePersons with lived experience with mental health conditions and/or psychosocial disabilities have unique expertise and in-depth knowledge of navigating health and mental health systems, first-hand experience of segregation and discrimination, and of effective and practical strategies that promote recovery. In principle, the common experiences shared amongst peers place them with an advantage of being in a better position to truly have empathy for a fellow peer and have understanding of their needs and vulnerabilities. Support provided and received between peers creates a safe space for meaningful conversations to take place, that focus on peer relationships and the development of trust amongst peers.
This Peer Support booklet is an excellent resource on what peer support work entails, featuring practical examples of how peer support can be delivered, and testimonies from peers on the value of peer support services.
CBM Global Disability Inclusion - Approach to Partnership
Download resourceThis is a summary of CBM Global’s approach and commitment to Partnership. It outlines our Partnership Principles and the relationship we have with our partners. In all our work we want to be guided by and held accountable to these principles.
14 years of CBM’s inclusive eye health projects through Seeing is Believing (2007-2020)
Download resourceThis report outlines the key achievements and learnings from the 14 year partnership between CBM and Seeing is Beliveing (SiB), a colloboration between Standard Chartered and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, to treat avoidable blindness and visual impairment by improving access to affordable and quality eye care in 20 countries across Africa, Asia and South America.
Inclusion in Eye Health Brochure
Download resourceThis brochure explores how to make eye care services accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities.
4 Ps for Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities within Climate Change Plans: Personal, Programmes, Policy and Political
Download resourceClimate Change: This Century’s Defining Issue. The 4 Ps for Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities within Climate Change Plans: Personal, Programmes, Policy and Political
Disability Inclusive Development: The UK government’s role in furthering inclusion
Download resourceCBM UK parliamentary briefing January 2020.
People with disabilities face discrimination and structural inequalities in many areas of life, which often leads to disadvantage and exclusion; and those with disabilities in low and middle-income countries are at most risk of being left behind. The UK can play a key role in challenging this by continuing its leadership on disability inclusive development, and ensuring that disability inclusion is addressed through all of the UK’s foreign policy decision-making. This decade provides new opportunities to do so, as the UK renegotiates its role in the world, and in the run up to the 2030 deadline to achieve the Global Goals.
Case Studies: Inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action
Download resource39 examples of field practices, and learnings from 20 countries, for all phases of humanitarian response
CBM Neglected Tropical Diseases Report 2019
Download resourceThis report details CBM’s global Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) programmes for 2019.
Lessons from Disability Audit of North East Nigeria Transition to Development (NENTAD) Humanitarian Response
Download resourceThis briefing provides recommendations and conclusions for humanitarian stakeholders in Nigeria, based on the findings of the Disability Audit of DFID’s North East Nigeria Transition to Development (NENTAD) Humanitarian Response. The audit was funded by DFID Nigeria and conducted in late 2018 by CBM and the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), the umbrella organization of persons with disabilities (OPD).
Policy Brief: Involving people with disabilities in humanitarian response
Download resourceIn 2018, the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned CBM and Nigeria’s Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities to review disability inclusion in four humanitarian projects funded by the North East Nigeria Transition to Development (NENTAD) programme1 – the first time such a review has been conducted of DFID’s humanitarian programmes.
This policy brief shares key findings and recommendations from the review.
Creating a global enabling environment for mental health to flourish
Download resourceCBM UK policy briefing exploring the prevalence, determinants and impact of poor mental health particular; and offering recommendations to the UK Government on how to create a global environment that enables good mental health to flourish and reduces risk of mental illness.
CBM Community Mental Health Initiative
Download resourceIntroducing CBM’s Community Mental Health Initiative, launched in 2019. This will bring focus and scale to the work that CBM does in order to have a greater impact for people with mental illness and psychosocial disabilities,for the wider communities where we focus our work, and people with other disabilities, who are often at increased risk of mental health problems.
CBM response to IDC Inquiry on DFID's approach to disability
Download resourceCBM UK responds to the International Development Committee (IDC) Parliamentary Inquiry into DFID’s work on disability – positive steps, especially around women and girls, mental health and humanitarian situations; but still a way to go with DPO engagement and disability mainstreaming.
The Intersection of Disability and Gender in the Global South: Narratives, Gaps and Opportunities - advocacy paper
Download resourceCBM UK advocacy paper exploring the particular challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities and recommending how the UK Government can help to promote equality and inclusion.
Good practice guide: embedding inclusion of older people and people with disabilities in humanitarian policy and practice
Download resourceThe Good Practice Guide outlines the lessons learnt from the Age and Disability Capacity Programme (ADCAP), detailing nine change themes that can help organisations to embed age and disability inclusion.