ABSTRACT
In order to understand the demand for rights by disabled people and the response from supply-side institutions, it is important to have an understanding of key themes in disability mainstreaming in international development aid. Disability mainstreaming is now imperative in development aid and part of the United Nations (UN) sustainable development agenda to ‘leave no one behind’ (Cobley, 2018). Thanks to the work of disability rights activists Chataika and McKenzie (2016), who note that global institutions, governments, local and global non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are required to include or mainstream disability in all processes of international development aid and programming. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) explicitly states that mainstreaming should be an imperative for all states to ensure sustainable development (UN, 2006; Koistinen, 2018). Chataika (2013) argues that like gender mainstreaming, disability mainstreaming is the inclusion of disability in all features of aid from Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) to NGO activities.
