Integrate disability inclusion into mental health care systems and interventions

Provide reasonable accommodations so that mental health services and interventions are accessible to people with disabilities

Train mental health care workers to deliver services for people with disabilities.

Improve the identification of mental health difficulties among people with disabilities

Engage people with disabilities in the design and implementation of mental health policies and services.

Conduct research on ‘what works’ to promote access to mental health services

Focus on increasing access to training interventions to alleviate psychological stress in carers.

Provide better access to respite care to reduce the burden on family members as well as acute services as the only source of meaningful support.

Develop contextually-appropriate and culturally-sensitive interventions that take account of the carers’ socio-economic settings.

Train local community workers and other parents with children with disabilities using community resources to provide parent training and support interventions.

Focus on developing a good quality evidence base from LMICs to determine what works to improve the mental health outcomes of carers of children with disabilities.

Generate better evidence on what works to improve outcomes for children with disabilities overall, and disaggregate this by gender

Collect more nuanced data on barriers to education among girls with disabilities in specific settings

Prioritise inclusive and safe sexual and reproductive health support for girls with disabilities in schools

Involve boys and men in supporting girls with disabilities accessing school

Think beyond primary education, to support girls with disabilities through to meaningful livelihoods and to mitigate against risk of violence

Harmonise indicators and outputs to build national baselines and monitor change over time

Explicit inclusion of people with psychosocial disability in all national policies and programmes on disability within the UNCRPD framework.

Address workplace stigma and discrimination around people with psychosocial disability using social contact interventions.

Affirmative action such as workplace reasonable accommodation should be individualised based on the needs of people with psychosocial disability.

People with psychosocial disability should have access to effective and affordable mental health services. Multi-stakeholders should co-ordinate their efforts to support people with psychosocial disability in employment opportunities.

Allocate funding to implement Supported employment (SE), particularly ‘Individual Placement and Support’ (IPS), for people with psychosocial disability.

Further develop the evidence base to inform and guide policymaking.

Address the wider social determinants, that put women with disabilities at high risk of experiencing any form of violence.

Create a safe and accessible system for reporting all forms of violence as well as offering protection and ongoing support.

Invest in capacity building activities for all relevant stakeholders to promote all types of violence prevention for women with disabilities.

Assign dedicated funding for all types of violence prevention and management strategies among women with disabilities.

Invest in policy analysis and further research to strengthen the evidence base on all types of violence prevention and management interventions for women with disabilities.

More focus is needed on the experiences of persons with disabilities in gaining access to employment

Employment interventions can be integrated into health care settings

Individual adaptations for employees in the competitive labour market are needed

More focus is needed to address gender gaps

Greater collaboration is needed

Enhance disability inclusion by reducing or eliminating the barriers and/or providing additional required measures to facilitate participation and inclusion.

Align national policies and programmes on disability with the UNCRPD framework.

Take a collaborative approach to realising the rights of persons with disabilities, and invest in capacity development to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda of ‘Leave no one behind.’

Recognise the influence of intersectionality, and adopt a twin-track approach to promoting disability-inclusive development in all areas including education, health, employment, and social activities.

Improve and harmonise data collection to inform appropriate programme design and implementation as well as evaluate the impact of policies and programmes, using standardised approaches that allow disaggregated data by disability status.

Further develop the evidence base to inform and guide policy making.

Engage directly with women and girls with disabilities and civil society

Prioritise interventions that empower women and girls with disabilities

Develop partnerships with research organisations to document what works

Take ownership for the removal of structural stigma that excludes women and girls with disabilities

National legal and policy frameworks should reflect the rights of persons with disabilities and be aligned with the CRPD principles

Adopt a multi-sectoral approach to formulate and implement policies and programmes for inclusive employment

Develop clear guidelines to mandate the implementation of policies that promote inclusive employment

Ensure adequate financial resources are available to support inclusive employment

Use established tools and strategies to monitor and evaluate the policy implementation

Invest in future research to inform evidence-based disability related policies

Use updated WHO guidance to strengthen and better integrate rehabilitation services into health systems

Build the capacity of an indigenous rehabilitation workforce to better meet population rehabilitation needs

Identify context-relevant approaches to tackle key barriers to accessing rehabilitation among people with disabilities in LMICs

Collect, strengthen and share evidence on what works to improve access to rehabilitation for people with disabilities