What is "Making it Work"?

What is "Making It Work"?

The Making It Work initiative aims at identifying solutions to advance the rights of persons with disabilities and the SDGs for lasting improvements in the lives of persons with disabilities.

Through its methodology, it supports Civil Society Organizations to implement sustainable disability inclusive actions for contributing to reaching the SDGs.

Good practice database

Good Practices Database

We have gathered over a hundred inspiring Good Practices, which have contributed to improving the lives of persons with disabilities across the world. They cover topics as various as education, health, employment, gender, local development, and so on.

Use our interactive database to read more about these inclusive actions!

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"Forgotten women, violence silenced": Report by Plateforme des Femmes pour la Paix en Casamance and MIW

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The Women's Platform for Peace in Casamance and MIW launch the report ‘Forgotten women, silenced violence: The realities of access to care for disabled survivors in Simbandi Brassou, Sédhiou, Senegal’ 

Co-written by Khadidiatou Rassoule Gueye, Programme Officer, Women's Platform for Peace in Casamance, and Sophie Pécourt, Making It Work Coordinator,  Humanity & Inclusion, with the cooperation of disabled women and girls in Simbandi Brassou and resource persons who answered our questions, this report highlights the extent and severity of violence suffered by disabled women and girls in a context where such violence is trivialised, accepted, or even denied by the community.

What's New at MIW? June 2025 Project Brief is online!

Overview- Project Brief avec carte de l'Afrique et pays d'intervention de MIW

Our new "Project Brief", updated to June 2025, is online.

Find out more about: the MIW network; our feminist, intersectional, antivalidist and decolonial approach; our partners' success stories.

VIHEMA DeafBlind Malawi at the 2018 World Disability Summit

Catherine Uteka and Martha Momba from VIHEMA Deafblind Malawi

VIHEMA DeafBlind Malawi attended the Global Disability Summit in the UK, 24 July 2018.

Martha Momba shares her appreciation about the summit and how it was an opportunity to "promote the Deafblind persons to be front and centre of change through self-advocacy and active involvement and close consultation of deafblind persons".

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