Should you use the WG questions in your humanitarian programming? A tool to help you decide. This blog presents five criteria developed to help humanitarian workers make the best decisions regarding…
Disability Disaggregation: Envisioning Inclusive Development Inclusion is the guiding principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which includes the pledge to leave no one behind and…
Why is it Important to Identify the Population with Disabilities? – a video just released by the WG – is available here The WG has partnered with Sightsavers and the Center for Inclusive Policy to…
The COVID-19 webinar took place August 25, 2020 To view the "Using the Washington Group Tools to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disability" document, click here. To view the…
This website (‘the site’) is published by The Washington Group on Disability Statistics (‘WG’). The 'site' includes other materials published by WG which are on the site or reached via links on the…
A Ukrainian translation of the WG Short Set on Functioning is now available. The WG-SS has been translated into Ukrainian. It may be obtained here or by email request to the WG Secretariat at:…
Below is a list of published journal articles, books (including book chapters and proceedings) and reports that focus on the tools developed by the Washington Group. This WG Published Materials…
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) recognizes that ‘disability is an evolving concept’ (UNCRPD, 2006, p. 1), and defines persons with disabilities as those who…
