Browse our resources to discover more about our approach, learning and the impact of our work.
AHP III Bangladesh: A disability inclusion journey in the Rohingya crisis
This report documents achievements and lessons learned and presents recommendations to progress disability inclusion further in the Rohingya response and for the humanitarian sector at large.
Breaking the silence: Addressing violence against women with disabilities
This document explores how CBM Global implementing partners, including OPDs, are responding to issues of gender-based violence in the communities in which they work, including what is working well and where more support is needed.
CBM Global Climate Advocacy Roadmap
The purpose of the roadmap is to set out our intended direction of travel for climate advocacy (2023 - 2026). Our hope is that international, regional and national level climate policies will fully reflect the inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Advocacy toolkit: Inclusiveness and health equity in national eye health strategies
This toolkit assists CBM Global country teams and partners, including Organisation of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) partners and other eye care Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), in advocating for more inclusive eye health.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Inclusive MHPSS in Humanitarian Emergencies
This document provides guidance on inclusive MHPSS programming in humanitarian emergencies. It is designed to highlight essential frameworks and principles, and the need for robust and sustainable MHPSS programming, rather than to provide detailed MHPSS technical guidance.
AHP Phase III Bangladesh Impact Report: An honest account
A new report seeking to reflect the lived experience of people with disabilities in the Rohingya AHP Phase III Response, their stories and feedback on what has changed for them, and the continued barriers they face.
Gender inclusion in project implementation
CBM Australia recently held a webinar with our partners in Bangladesh, Nigeria and the Philippines looking at what has stopped men, women, girls, and boys from participating in project activities, and what they have done to address this. These are a few highlights from what we learned.
The impact of climate change: From people with disabilities in the places we work
This document captures the perspectives of people with disabilities who have been affected by climate change in the countries we work, and documents how CBM Global is responding.
A learning brief on disability data using Washington Group questions
The learning brief offers practical guidance with suggested approaches to overcoming common issues and concerns, with a focus on the Washington Group questions.
Climate Change and Disability Rights
In commissioning the study “Climate action and its impact on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)” we hypothesised that the costs and damages incurred by climate change, if not met with additional and specific funding, will result in national funds being diverted away from essential government services.
Towards Disability Inclusive WASH Programming in Schools in Nepal
CBM Global’s Inclusion Advisory Group worked with UNICEF Nepal on a project to ensure that school WASH facilities and services were accessible and inclusive for children with disabilities.
WFP Disability Inclusion Helpdesk: Learning Brief
This learning brief provides an overview of the Helpdesk and summarises key lessons from its operation and the broader partnership between WFP and IAG.
What recent evaluations are telling us about our work in livelihoods
Recently, CBM Australia looked at evaluations of our Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) work over the last five years. This document highlights key learnings about livelihoods support which can be used to help inform and improve project planning and monitoring and evaluation.
Good Practice in CBID
CBM Australia recently conducted a meta-evaluation which looked at 33 evaluations from our international projects over four years. This document details what we learnt around good practice when working with people with disabilities in community based inclusive development (CBID) programs.
How CBM Australia’s field programs influence government policy to address inclusion
Drawing on findings from our recent meta-evaluation, this document highlights how CBM Australia’s field projects influence government policy or action. Local policy influence was found to be the most common type of change, followed by national and institutional policy influence.
Disability Inclusive Cash Transfer: Lessons from the humanitarian response to Cyclone Amphan
This learning document highlights good practices and lessons from this response and is intended to provide guidance to NGOs, state actors and OPDs to create inclusive responses and deliver equal outcomes through inclusive Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in humanitarian action.
Barriers to Healthcare Access for Deaf Nigerian Women and Girls during Emergencies
This report presents preliminary research on the experiences faced in health care by deaf women and girls in Nigeria, highlighting the most recent emergency and disaster situation, the COVID-19 pandemic. The report will present several recommendations to reduce the inequities in the intersection of gender, disability, and linguistic minorities.
Missing in Climate Action
This publication tells the story of the people, the individuals and communities affected by climate change, yet absent from key conversations and actions on climate.
Climate Change: This Century’s Defining Issue
The 4 Ps for Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities within Climate Change Plans: Personal, Programmes, Policy and Political
Partner Feedback Exercise 2022
Learnings from our 2022 Partner Survey and Partner Interviews
Pacific Disaster Ready: Disability inclusion tip sheets
The Pacific Disaster Ready Tip Sheets are a suite of documents and includes key messages and talking points for different sectoral and thematic issues drawing on the learnings from the past four and a half years of the Pacific Disaster Ready project.
Value for Money Assessment of Disability Inclusion
Our Inclusion Advisory Group worked with World Vision in Sri Lanka, and their research shows the value of investing in disability inclusion.
Case Study: Climate Change and its Humanitarian Consequences
The impact of the climate crisis in Madagascar, the ongoing food crisis, and the challenges faced by persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in accessing humanitarian assistance.
Case study: Nepal’s changing climate
The impact of climate induced disasters on people living in poverty who have much less adaptative capacity to respond to the negative and sometimes devastating impact of climate change.
Inclusion Advisory Group: Impact Report
An independent evaluation of the work of Australia’s Inclusion Advisory Group shows that the team effectively supports governments, multilaterals and NGOs to better address disability inclusion in their programs.
People with Psychosocial Disabilities in Disaster Events
A report on the impact of exclusion of people with psychosocial disabilities from disaster preparedness.
Organisations of Persons with Disabilities: Making a Difference in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands
A report exploring the roles and impact of OPDs in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands and identifying key challenges and enablers constraining and supporting OPDs’ contributions to the disaster preparedness and response sector.
Our Lessons: disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction report
An approach to disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction based on consultations with people with disabilities in the Asia and Pacific regions.
Key Principles & Recommendations for Inclusive Cash & Voucher Assistance in Ukraine
This technical brief is intended to provide general guidance for humanitarian agencies operating in Ukraine on how to implement Disability Inclusive Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). It aims to ensure that disability is mainstreamed within the CVA intervention and in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), International Humanitarian Law and the Humanitarian Principles.
“We have a key role now” Lessons learned from partnerships with OPDs
In order to gather feedback on its partnerships with organisations of persons with disabilities CBM Global conducted a listening exercise through 2020 and 2021. The listening exercise celebrates what is working well and identifies areas for improvement. It is offered as an example of what partnership can mean and as a contribution to the wider efforts of integrating organisations of persons with disabilities into international cooperation.
Disability Inclusive Cash Assistance: Learnings from practice in Humanitarian Response
This case study collection describes lessons learned from seven inclusive humanitarian cash transfer projects implemented from 2015 – 2020, and five ongoing projects from the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic responses. The projects employed cash transfer in a range of humanitarian crises; using unrestricted cash transfers distributed via different cash delivery mechanisms. Annex 1 provides an overview of the analysed responses and the project briefs of seven of the case studies. The collection aims to benefit both humanitarian practitioners engaged in CBI and the wider humanitarian sector by presenting insights and learning on how humanitarian CBI programs can be made more inclusive, to ensure equal outcomes for disaster-affected people with disabilities and other at-risk groups.
Engaging with organisations of persons with disabilities in humanitarian response
Reflection from CBM Global’s Covid-19 response in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nepal
Disability Inclusive Development Toolkit
This toolkit is designed as a resource for CBM that can be used in a variety of ways: to support staff induction, team meetings, refresher days and training workshops. It can also be used as a tool for personal reflection and self-study. Tips for those intending to use it as a training resource are shaded differently. The toolkit is presented in four main chapters targeting different audiences. Chapter 1: DID an introduction Chapter 2: DID for managers Chapter 3: DID for programme staff Chapter 4: Inclusive training and facilitation
Climate change, mental health and wellbeing
The negative impacts on mental health and wellbeing of climate change.
CBM Global Programme Quality Framework
The purpose of the Programme Quality Framework is to set out the high-level principles and commitments that we expect to guide programme quality and to which we seek to be held accountable. The overall aim is to ensure that those who we serve and assist through our programming and the donors who support these programmes, can have trust in the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, sustainability and impact of the work that we undertake.
CBM Global’s Approach to Partnership
This is a summary of CBM Global’s approach and commitment to Partnership. It outlines our Partnership Principles and the relationship we have with our partners. In all our work we want to be guided by and held accountable to these principles.
CBM Global’s Programmatic Strategy
CBM Global’s programmatic strategy is driven by 5 stark facts.
AccessibilityGo: A Guide to Action
Accessibility GO! A Guide to Action aims to provide practical support on how to deliver a whole-of-organisation approach towards accessibility. It describes how to progressively achieve 7 core accessibility commitments across built environments, information and communications, procurement of goods and services, training and capacity development, programmes, meetings and events, recruitment and human resource (HR) management.
Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit
The aim of this toolkit is to contribute to the growing global dialogue on the importance of data on people with disabilities, specifically to provide some basic knowledge on data collection, analysis and use of data for evidence-based advocacy.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Peer Support
Practical examples of how different types of peer support programs can be delivered, drawing on CBM Global’s experiences around the world.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Mental Wellbeing & Stigma in NTDs
Practical examples of how CBM Global is working with partners to mainstream mental health in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programs, to reduce stigma improve mental wellbeing.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Mental Health System Strengthening
Strengthening mental health systems is a focus of our work. Practical examples of how initiatives, such as the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) health system building blocks, can be used to strengthen mental health systems, drawing on CBM Global’s experience in West and Central Africa.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Community Mental Health Forums
Practical examples of how CBM Global is supporting Community Mental Health Forums, including good practice recommendations and lessons learned.
Community Mental Health Good Practice Guide: Anti-Stigma and Awareness-Raising
Practical examples of how anti-stigma, anti-discrimination and awareness raising work can improve the mental wellbeing of people with disabilities, drawing on CBM Global’s own experience.
Accessible meetings and events: a toolkit
Guidance on organising accessible and inclusive events and meetings in planning, delivery and follow-up stages.
Evidence Summary: Experiences of People with Disabilities During COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
Global and national surveys have highlighted that people with disabilities have been disproportionally affected by COVID-19.
Inclusion Advisory Group: Impact Report 2020
This overview showcases the work of our Inclusion Advisory Group in 2020.
Disability inclusion and COVID-19: Guidance for WASH delivery
This guidance note from our Inclusion Advisory Group provides some key principles, considerations and actions.
Organisational Engagement on Disability Inclusion tool
This tool was developed with ANCP Partner Organisations to support development organisations to capture a ‘snap shot’ of how they are engaging with disability inclusion, to assess what areas need further work, and to assist action planning.
End the Cycle
Provides free and downloadable videos, factsheets and toolkits in which people with disability tell their own stories.
CBM Disability & Gender Toolkit
How organisations can assess their context and their approaches.
Disability Mainstreaming: Impact through a catalytic approach
This report gives an overview of the work of our Inclusion Advisory Group Australian team from 2014 to 2019.