People with disabilities are often excluded from #DevelopmentResearch. People with complex/multiple impairments such as #DeafBlindness are often excluded even from development research that focuses on disability. We wanted to challenge that & work with the most marginalised.
A team of @IDS_UK researchers including @B_Rohwerder & I recently undertook a study with the #InclusiveFutures initiative to understand how people with complex/multiple impairments had experienced the #COVID19 pandemic & associated lockdowns opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handl…
We undertook narrative interviews in #Nepal & #Bangladesh. 🇳🇵🇧🇩 We found that the pandemic and responses have had devastating and life-changing detrimental effects on people with disabilities from the most marginalised groups.
We concluded that disability inclusive approaches to the pandemic must be developed together with people with disabilities to ensure that their rights and fundamental freedoms can be realised without discrimination of any kind on the basis of disability. #UNCRPD #CRPD #LNOB
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