For more than 40 years, whether in emergency situations or contexts of chronic crisis or extreme poverty, HI has been helping people with disabilities and other vulnerable people along the road to inclusion or re-inclusion in their community.
72
projects led by HI in 2024 in 34 countries
72 HEURES
notre temps de réponse
opérationnelle
42,223
beneficiaries worldwide in 2024
Deeply-rooted in local communities, our teams work alongside relevant local authorities and services, as well as Civil Society networks, including Disabled People’s Organisations.
They develop close links between mainstream services (such as social services, teachers, and actors in the employment sector), and specialist actors to improve the inclusion of people with disabilities and vulnerable people, whatever their specific needs or personal projects. HI works to promote an inclusive governance of disability issues, and the full participation of people with disabilities in decisions that concern them.
Access to education
HI has been promoting access to school for children with disabilities since 2004 and is developing projects in 31 countries.
economic inclusion
Our projects are aimed at people with disabilities and vulnerable people living in poverty.
Inclusive employment, an opportunity to build a brighter future
Our inclusive employment projects target people with
disabilities and people who are vulnerable (due to their
social-economic status, gender, ethnic origin, etc.) whose
employment prospects are limited because of the barriers
they encounter when studying, training or working.
Our goal is to promote access to decent work in conditions of freedom, equality, security and dignity. To create sustainable livelihood opportunities, we implement internationally recognised and proven economic development initiatives at the local level. These initiatives include:
Supporting self-employment
Supporting self-employment by helping entrepreneurs to begin or scale up their economic activities through access to Financial services (e.g. microfinance institutions, village savings and loan associations), professional or technical training courses, access to markets, etc.
Increasing access to waged employment
By helping jobseekers to develop their technical or interpersonal competences and find employment, and supporting employees to make their activities systematically inclusive of vulnerable people and people with disabilities.
Supporting mainstream economic development
Supporting mainstream economic development stakeholders (such as employment agencies, for example) to make their actions inclusive, with a view to creating environments that are conducive to professional inclusion.
Support to vulnerable people
Implementing specific interventions for extremely poor households (living on less than 2.15 dollars per day per person) to enable them to escape poverty through an approach that progressively combines social safety nets and support for the development of their economic activities.
Support for associations
Supporting organisations representing people with disabilities to defend their right to employment and assisting with the implementation of inclusive employment policies at the national level.
Our professional inclusion projects allow vulnerable people and people with disabilities to work, provide for their families and play an active role in society. Partnerships with economic stakeholders (microfinance institutions, employment agencies, companies, etc.) are established to promote inclusive employment. This area of HI’s work is pursuant to articles 5 and 27 of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Sustainable Development Goal 8 on access to a decent work for all.
The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown on this map are not warranted to be error free nor do they necessarily imply official endorsement or acceptance by HI.
Social inclusion for equal opportunities
HI works for the full social participation of vulnerable people, including people with disabilities1. Our social inclusion projects especially aim for deeply connected relationships, social development and empowerment of individuals, and enabling social environments conducive to full social participation.
Our teams firstly rely on Social Work and promote social interventions within our organization, such as the Personalised Social Support process. Their work:
- Social development of individuals/groups and social cohesion of communities by “Living Together” (sports, games, cultural and leisure activities...)
- Implementation of social action facilities (IOLC2, support services, unique portal...)
- Quality Approach development
- Support to the definition and operationalization of social protection policies at local and national levels
For more information about our projects and our approach to livelihood
Francesca RANDAZZO
Manager Livelihood
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