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List of acronyms
AAL - Argentinean
Accessibility Law
AIDS - Acquired Immune Defciency Syndrome
ARI - Africa Rehabilitation Institute
AU - African Union
AUC - African Union Commission
CAADE - Special Coordination of Support and Assistance to Persons with
Disabilities
CAS - Country Action Strategies
CBM - Christoffel Blindenmission (Christian Blind Mission)
CDPF - China Disabled People’s Federation
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women
CIL - Centers for Independent Living
CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child
CWIQ - Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaires
DFID - Department for International Development of the UK
DHS - Demographic and Health Survey
DPOD - Disabled People’s Organization Denmark
DPO - Disabled People Organization
DSC - Decade Steering Committees
EA - Enumeration Areas
EMIS - General Educational Management Information System
EU - European Union
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GEQIP - Education Quality Improvement Package
GPDD - Global Partnership on Disability and Development
GTZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (German
Society for Technical Cooperation)
HIV - Human Immunodefciency Virus
HLCS - Household Living Conditions Surveys
ICF - International Classifcation of Functioning
ICT - Information and Communications Technology
IFRTD - International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
ILO - International Labour Organization
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IT - Information Technology
LLRD - Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development
LSM - Living Standards Measure
MDG - Millennium Development Goal
MFIs - Microfinance Institutions
MICS - Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey
MP - Member of Parliament
MUCCoBS - Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies
NADAWO - Namibian Association of Differently Abled Women
NAPC - National Anti-Poverty Commission
NCPEDP - National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People
NCPWD - National Council for Persons with Disabilities
NEPAD - New Partnership for African Development
NGOs - Non-Government Organizations
NICI - National Information and Communication Infrastructure
NRM - National Resistance Movement
NSO - National Statistics Office
OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OHCHR - Office of Higher Commissioner for Human Rights
PhilCOCHED - Philippine Council of Cheshire Homes for the Disabled
POETA - Partnership in Opportunities for Employment through Technology
in the Americas
PRBS - Poverty Reduction Budget Support
PRP - Protracted Relief Programme
PRSPs - Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
PWD - Persons With Disability
RBM - Result Based Management
SAFOD - Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled
SEDESE - Minas Gerais’s State Bureau of Social Development
SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
SINE - National System of Employment
SWAp - Sector Wide Approach
TQSI - Ten Questions Screening Instrument
UK - United Kingdom
UN - United Nations
UNCRPD - United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities
UNDESA - United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
UNECA - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UNESCAP - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
UNICEF - United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
UPE - Universal Primary Education
USA - United States of America
USAID - United States Agency for International Development
USE - Universal Secondary Education
WG - Washington Group
WHO - World Health Organization
WSIS - World Summit on Information Technology