This report examines the workplace challenges and barriers facing disabled people and considers solutions to some of the key issues. It looks at the impact on disabled people where they cannot access adequate support and what works in improving their employment prospects.
This toolkit helps persons with autism find and keep employment. It provided advice, stories, best practice data, tips, and resources that can be used in the job finding process
This report examines how public policies at national, regional, and local levels can support job creation, economic growth and social inclusion by overcoming obstacles to business start-ups and self-employment by people from disadvantaged or under-represented groups in entrepreneurship. It shows substantial potential to combat unemployment and increase labor market participation by facilitating business creation in populations such as women, youth with disabilities, the unemployed, and immigrants.
The report analyzed the disability practices and financial performance of the 140 companies participating in the Disability Equality Index (DEI) — a benchmarking tool that gives businesses an objective score on their disability inclusion policies and practices — over four years. A key finding of the report is that companies that embrace best practices for employing and supporting more persons with disabilities in the workforce have outperformed their peers.
This brief provides a roadmap to design, procure, and use AI to benefit and not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities, including a policy framework, discussion of challenges and opportunities regarding recruiting, hiring, and provision of reasonable accommodations guiding principles.
This report connects different social and economic dimensions and looks at the key trends of the future of work from a disability perspective. It provides recommendations of action needed to shape the future of work in a more disability-inclusive way.
This report reviews the main challenges to the realization of ICT-enabled inclusive development and presents cost-beneficial policy and practice recommendations for governments and development practitioners.
The report shows the need for comprehensive and inclusive policies that address the demand and supply side of the labour market, working both with employers and persons with disabilities. Promoting the labour market inclusion of persons with disabilities requires mainstream and specialized services, as well as promoting an environment that is more conducive to decent work for persons with disabilities. Incentives need to be generated for persons with disabilities, employers and institutions to promote the entry and retention of persons with disabilities in the labour market.
Digital technologies can facilitate new opportunities and create challenges for the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sectors. This report provides a global, high-level snapshot of the digitalization of TVET and skills systems in a set of countries and international organizations.
This tool is designed as a practical step-by-step tool for national digital skills assessments. It can be used to determine the existing supply of a digitally skilled cohort at a national level, to assess skills demand from industry and other sectors, to identify skills gaps, and to develop policies to address future digital skills requirements.
