Poverty

Poverty Program

DFN is educating grantmakers to help them understand the crucial importance of taking disability explicitly into account when funding international poverty programs. Tools: DFN has developed publications that will illustrate to grantmakers the significant interrelationships between disability and issues of general interest to “nondisability” funders. DFN’s purpose is to help funders understand the crucial importance of taking disability explicitly into account when funding poverty programs and to encourage poverty funders to be more inclusive of people with disabilities.

Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential to Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion

• PDF format – Half in Ten

Poverty and Disability: The Endless Loop

• MS Word format (select Read Only) – Poverty and Disability
  PDF format – Poverty and Disability

Making Poverty Reduction Strategies Inclusive

• MS Word format (select Read Only) – Press release and summary
  PDF format – Press release and summary
• Comprehensive Web site