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About RI projects

RI works in collaboration on all of its projects striving to combine international expertise, best practices and lessons learned with local knowledge and experience. Most of RI’s projects are carried out in partnership with RI members and with the guidance and expertise of RI’s Executive Committee and specialized Commissions. RI seeks to work with other like minded organizations working to advance the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities worldwide and welcomes new partnership opportunities. RI works with its members, partners, experts and regional leaders to create and carry out projects with the following objectives across the globe:

Rehabilitation and Habilitation

  • Implementation of the CBR guidelines
  • Rehabilitation Best Practices
  • Transition from education to employment
  • Review of International Classification of Functioning (ICF)                                  

Disaster Management

  • Inclusive preparation, aid and recovery
  • Guidelines on disability and disaster

UN CRPD 

  • The Global Advocacy Campaign                                                                                      
  • Best Practice Education Model

Accessibility

  • Access to the skies
  • Global certification
  • Guidelines for the international symbol of access
  • Accessibility reviews

Poverty Reduction

  • HIV/AIDS and Disability
  • Children and Disability
  • Vocation, empowerment and heath training for Women with Disabilities

Employment

  • Transition from Education to Employment
  • Integration of Employers
  • Return to work standards

                   

 

 

What We Have Achieved

Throughout RI’s long history of innovative projects RI has achieved the following notable outcomes:

  • Lead the campaign for the elaboration and adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
  • Conducted the first global survey on disability
  • Created the International Symbol of Access                     medium-sized access symbol
  • Established the conceptual basis for community-based rehabilitation  
  • Established one of the first self help groups and micro-credit enterprises
    for women with disabilities
  • Contributed to legal reform in Mexico and Argentina.

For more information on RI projects please visit our Featured Project section.