The Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre conducts applied research to improve the lives of people with disabilities globally. It collaborates with Leonard Cheshire Disability and various universities. The Centre's research focuses on topics like poverty, livelihoods, health, education and more. It shares its findings openly to benefit the disability sector. Current projects examine issues in countries like Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia and more. The overall goal is to generate knowledge that can be used by organizations, governments, and advocates to promote disability inclusion and development.

1. Leonard Cheshire Disability and
Inclusive Development Centre
Professor Nora Groce
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
University College London
nora.groce@ucl.ac.uk

2. Collaboration
Major NGO:
Leonard Cheshire Disability
> International Department
> LCD Global Alliance
Major University
> University College
London (UCL)

3. Leonard Cheshire Disability and
Inclusive Development Centre
 The Centre is dedicated to
generating a body of knowledge
about disability that helps to improve
the lives of people with disabilities,
their families and their communities,
around the world.
 Concentrates on applied research in
low and middle income countries that
can be used by groups,
organisations and advocates
worldwide

4. Leonard Cheshire Disability and
Inclusive Development Centre
All work is Open Access/ Free
Shared with entire sector
We do
* Theoretical & Applied Research
* Teaching – MSc, PhD
* Advising – UN Agencies/Bilaterals/
Governments/NGOs, DPOs
* Consultant – UN Agencies/ Bilaterials/
Governments/ NGOs
Mission is to share findings with disability and more
widely with disability and development community

5. Leonard Cheshire Disability and
Inclusive Development Centre
Our key research priorities are:
Disability &
 Poverty
 Livelihoods
 Health
 Inclusive Education
 Policy and governance
 Post-conflict and emergency situations

6. For example
Our recent research projects – and partners
include
 Disability and Well-Being - (Liberia) –U of Liberia
 Disabled Street Beggars – (Ethiopia)- ILO
 Inclusive Education: (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sierra
Leone, New Guinea) – DFAT/GEC & etc.
 Access to water and sanitation (Uganda and Zambia)
- WaterAid UK
 Social Protection Programmes (Vietnam) - MOLISA

7. ESRC/DFID Poverty Alleviation
Research
Bridging the
Gap
Examining Disability and
Development in four African
Countries (Kenya, Sierra Leone,
Uganda, and Zambia)

8.  Kenya: University of Nairobi, School of Public
Health, African Centre for Science and
Technology; United Disabled Persons Kenya
 Uganda: Makerere University, Department of
Social Work and Social Administration; National
Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda
 Zambia: Institute of Economic and Social
Research, University of Zambia; Zambia Agency
for Persons with Disabilities
 Sierra Leone: University of Sierra Leone,
Department of Sociology and Social Work; Sierra
Leone Union of People with Disabilities
 South Africa: Stellenbosch University
 International Experts: Dr D, Mont;
Professors T. Shakespeare, S. Mitria, M.
Schneider, L. Swartz
BACKGROUND
RESEARCH CONSORTIUM:
> LCD > 4 AFRICAN DPOS, > 5 AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES

9. THE DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT GAP
 The Disability and Development Gap
The Disability and Development Gap. Groce N, Kett M.
Working Paper 21. London: Leonard Cheshire Disability
and Inclusive Development Centre. 2013.
Unless persons with disabilities are included equally and routinely in all
development efforts, the lives of persons with disabilities will remain
stationary while the lives of those around them will continue to
advance. They will be increasingly poorer and more marginalized in
comparison to their non-disabled peers.

10. ESRC/DFID BRIDGING THE GAP
 The grant specified four domains of focus:
 Health
 Education
 Labour Market/Livelihoods
 Social Protection
Year 1: Review of Policy/Secondary
Data analaysis
Year 2: Household Survey
Year 3: Qualitative research

11. The UN Washington Group on Disability Statistics:
A Resource for Research and Practice
• Professor Nora Groce, Director and
Chair, Leonard Cheshire Disability and
Inclusive Development Centre,
Epidemiology and Public Health
- University College London
• Dr. Daniel Mont, Senior Research Fellow,
Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive
Development Centre, Epidemiology and
Public Health,
– University College London
• Dr Jennifer Madans, Associate Director
- National Centre for Health Statistics, US
• Mitchel Loeb, MA. Health Scientist, US
- National Centre for Health Statistics, US
<www.washingtongroup-disability.com>

12. Providing an academic home base for the Washington Group
on Disability Statistics
Funding from Australian Department of Trade and Finance (DFAT) 2015-2019
(£1.3 million 2015-2019) –
Work in collaboration with other projects (UN Statistics/ UNICEF’s MICs/ & etc.),
to improve and advance collection, theory and practice of disability related
statistics through collection and analysis of Washington Group methodology/
integration of this methodology in census, survey and research.
WG launching new and expanded training, website and outreach efforts to provide
support for WG data collection for census, survey, advocacy and research efforts
Already have/ will shortly be organising/ helping to run
> Regional/international training in:
• New York 2016
• Fiji 2016
• Mexico 2016
• Latin America 2016
• Middle East 2017
• London 2017
• Caribbean 2017
• Bangkok 2017
> Annual meetings
• Copenhagen 2015
• Pretoria 2016

13. Over coming four years, the WG will
Continue to work on developing question
sets for sub-populations (children) and
specific areas (mental health, environment,
participation) and application (registry
data)
 WG will focus on
 Capacity building
 Training & technical assistance
 Analysis of data once collected
 Implementation and dissemination of
findings
Because unless findings are disseminated
to policy makers, governments, advocates
and general public, nothing gets fixed

14. Disabled Street Beggar Project: Ethiopia
with Barbara Murray, International Labor Organisation – Geneva
Thy city lifts its hand like a cripple ‘O my lord Shun-Sin’ – Sumerian clay tablet2400 BC
 166 individuals – (24 in-depth
interviews/42 focus group/ 100 surveyed
* Urban – rural based
* Life course
– what brings people to streets
- what keeps them on streets
- what are their lives life
- what do they see as their future
FINDINGS: Unanticipated complexity
- Disabled early in life – sent to beg
- Disabled early in life – sent to school
- Disabled once in urban area
Significant points of intervention
different

15. Examples of Desk Research
• Inheritance
Groce N, London J, Stein M. 2014. Inheritance, Poverty and
Disability. Disability and Society. 29:10:1554-1568.
• Poverty and disability
Groce N, Kett M, Lang R, Trani JF. 2011. Disability and
Poverty: The Need for a More Nuanced
Understanding of Implications for Development
Policy and Practice. Third World Quarterly.
32(8):1493-1513
• Illiteracy
Groce N. Bakshi P. 2013. Illiteracy among Adults with
Disabilities in the Developing World. Nidhi
Singal (ed). Disability, Poverty and Education
London. Routledge.
• Polio
• Groce N, Morgon L, Stein M. 2014. Surviving Polio in a Post-
Polio World. Social Science and Medicine. 107-171-178.

16. NEW: Global Disability Innovation Hub
Leonard Cheshire Disability in collaboration with
> London Legacy Development Corporation
> Partners, including Loughborough University,
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design -Royal
College of Art, London College of Fashion,
Victoria and Albert (V&A), Sadlers Wells
> UCL – full Resources of a major : collaboration across
campus – disability, engineering, architecture,
medicine and public health, transportation,
computer
> WHO – In discussion with The GATE Initiative
Creating a hub for technological innovation to improve the
lives of disabled people worldwide.
To be based at: OLYMPIC PARK - London
https://www.disabilityinnovation.com

17. Leonard Cheshire Disability and
Inclusive Development Centre
In summary, Leonard Cheshire Disability
has an active research centre that is
anxious to:
- Partner with colleagues, fellow
organisations and individuals
- Share findings
That allows us continue to generate applied
research that can contribute to immediate and
long term improvements in the lives of persons
with disabilities.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/leonard-cheshire-research