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Inclusive civic engagement has many facets. Advocacy, education, and government technical knowledge are all critical to ensure that persons who identify with marginalized groups can take part in their communities.

Civil Society Experience

    • Conducting a Disability Inclusion Review of Legal Frameworks (ASEAN countries, Uzbekistan)

    • Creating a Policy Platform for OPDs (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam)

    • Developing Position Papers (ASEAN countries, Uganda)

    • Disability-Inclusive Elections (Syria)

    • Disability Inclusion in CSOs (Bangladesh, Zimbabwe)

    • Disability Rights Advocacy (ASEAN countries, Eastern Partnership countries, Haiti)

    • Election Access Observations (Nepal)

    • Indigenous Youth Wings (Guyana)

    • Intersectional Coalition Building (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam)

    • Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Confidence for Self-Advocacy (Myanmar)

    • Polling Station Accessibility Audits (Guyana, Jamaica)

    • Women with Disabilities Advocacy (Bangladesh, Libya, Maldives, Nepal)

    • Youth with Disabilities Political Leadership (Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)

  • Democracy Education Workshops (Africa region, Asia region, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, South Africa)

    Lessons Learned for Advocacy and Program Design (ASEAN countries)

    Mentorship on Political Participation of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities (Uganda)

    Proposal Development Support (Malaysia)

    Support to OPDs on the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan (ASEAN countries)

  • Democracy education (Colombia, El Salvador)

    Leadership and Indigenous Peoples, religion, and gender (Bangladesh)

    Civic engagement and persons with disabilities, age, and gender (Uzbekistan)

Government Stakeholder Support

    • Building Resources in Democracy, Governance, and Elections (BRIDGE) (Indonesia, Summit for Democracy—Republic of Korea

    • BRIDGE Disability Rights, Media, and Elections (Fiji, Myanmar, Tunisia)

    • Disability Rights Sensitization (Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe)

    • Election Access Observation (Guatemala)

    • Inclusive Voter Education, Inclusion in the EMB, and Related Topics (Libera)

    • Polling Station Audits and Accessible Architecture (Libya)

    • Training of Poll Worker Trainers on Disability Inclusion (Georgia)

    • Disability Rights Focal Point at National Elections Commission (Liberia)

    • Disability Inclusion Policy (Liberia)

    • Lead Curriculum Developer and Trainer for Fourth Regional Disability Rights Dialogue in Southeast Asia

    • Lead Facilitator for Global Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Elections

    • Disability rights and elections (Saskatchewan, Canada)

    • Indigenous Peoples and elections (Saskatchewan, Canada)

Publications

    • Intersectionality Assessment of Uzbekistan, with Shokhrukh Xaqqulov and Inna Tovmasyan, unpublished, February 2024

      Developing a Disability Inclusion Policy: A Strategic Planning and Implementation Guide for EMBs, with Virginia Atkinson, published December 2022

      Inclusive Digital Advocacy Toolkit, with Ashley Law, published January 2022

      IFES COVID-19 Briefing Series: Inclusion and Meaningful Political Participation, with Virginia Atkinson and Meredith Applegate, published July 202

      Election Access Observation Toolkit, with Virginia Atkinson, published October 2018.

      “Disability Rights and Election Observation: Increasing Access to the Political Process,” published in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, December 2017.

      “How to Include Women with Disabilities: A Guide for the Electoral Process in Liberia,” July 2017.

      “Pathways to Inclusive Electoral Participation of African Citizens with Disabilities,” September 2016.

    • Intersectionality Assessment of Chittagong Hill Tracks, with Kaneez Fatema, unpublished, June 2024

      Engaging Indigenous Peoples in Elections: Identifying International Good Practices through Case Studies in Guatemala, Kenya, and Nepal, with Pratima Gurung, et. al., published February 2024

    • IFES COVID-19 Briefing Series: Inclusion and Meaningful Political Participation, with Virginia Atkinson and Meredith Applegate, published July 2020