Commit resources to support strengthened disability data
Under the World Bank Strategy for Household Surveys to address data deprivation, the WBG will provide technical assistance and analytical support to client countries in their efforts to scale up the collection, and the effective use, of disability data from future national surveys and population censuses, guided by global standards and best practices, such as the Washington Group’s short-set disability questions. The WBG will provide its project staff with clear and openly accessible guidelines for disability data collection based on the Washington Group disability questions for them to provide appropriate advice to its client countries.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan
In the short and medium-term the World Bank Group commits to work with countries to:

  1. Take stock of disability data in existing household surveys and censuses to establish a baseline
  2. Include the Washington Group short set disability questions in all censuses of the 2020 round supported by World Bank Group, via lending and/or TA.
  3. Incorporate the Washington Group short set questions in at least 12 countries with upcoming household surveys supported by the WBG until 2020.
  4. Aim for use of Washington Group short set questions in at least 50% of WBG supported household surveys in LICs and LMICs from 2021 onwards.
  5. Provide Technical Assistance that nudges all countries working with the WBG on collecting Household Surveys to use the Washington Group short set disability questions as a default. The WBG will adapt its household survey guidance to recommend the Washington Group short set disability questions as best practice to collect data for disaggregating by disability. Furthermore, even among surveys not supported by the WBG, the WBG will advocate for collection of disability data using the Washington Group short set questions.
  6. Include profiles of the disabled population in our publications such as poverty assessments and poverty and equity briefs, as data becomes available. This will help make this invisible dimension, much more visible in everything we do.

In the long term we will work towards mainstreaming of the inclusive data agenda in all countries we support by also building administrative systems to collect data on disability going forward.  

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