The Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development (EDID) partnership builds relationships with civil society organizations, policy makers, and researchers to improve the lives of diverse girls and women with disabilities.

Through four interconnected country studies, transnational studies, and cross-cutting research, the project seeks to uncover, co-create, and share knowledge that supports disability-inclusive development and policies.

Image: Several EDID-GHDI project partners and leadership team members gathered for an initial project development meeting in August 2019, where they braided six colourful ribbon together as a symbol of their partnership.
A group of people, including leadership team members and project partners, around a table holding a braided ribbon.

The Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development (EDID) partnership builds relationships with civil society organizations, policy makers, and researchers to improve the lives of diverse girls and women with disabilities.

Through four interconnected country studies, transnational studies, and cross-cutting research, the project seeks to uncover, co-create, and share knowledge that supports disability-inclusive development and policies.

A group of people, including leadership team members and project partners, around a table holding a braided ribbon.
Image: Several EDID-GHDI project partners and leadership team members gathered for an initial project development meeting in August 2019, where they braided six colourful ribbon together as a symbol of their partnership.

Meet Our
Project Partners

Meet the Leadership
Team, Team Leads

& Staff

Meet Our
Council of Advisors

A group of young girls smiling with their arms around each other

Together, we explore disability-inclusive development using a gendered and intersectional lens.

To achieve its goals, the partnership uses collaborative, community-engaged, and participatory research approaches and complementary theoretical approaches.

A group of young girls smiling with their arms around each other

Together, we explore disability-inclusive development using a gendered and intersectional lens.

To achieve its goals, the partnership uses collaborative, community-engaged, and participatory research approaches and complementary theoretical approaches.

Did you know?

An estimated 1 billion people live with disabilities globally—the majority of whom are women and girls—and face unique barriers that lead to poverty and exclusion. Women and girls with disabilities face systemic inequalities because of the interconnected kinds of discrimination they face, which make them among the most marginalized groups in the world.

What are disability-inclusive policies?

The United Nations defines disability-inclusive policies as “a full range of policies, designed with persons with disabilities in mind, that take into account the environment in which people live and how it interacts with any impairment people may have.”

Our Motivation

Too little attention has been paid to the causes and consequences of disability in development—a critical gap that we aim to help fill.

Intersectionality reminds us that disability may not be the first or only way that women and girls identify themselves or explain their experiences. With this in mind, the EDID partnership seeks to model inclusive approaches, both in the content of what we study and in the practice of working together.

Our Motivation

Too little attention has been paid to the causes and consequences of disability in development—a critical gap that we aim to help fill.

Intersectionality reminds us that disability may not be the first or only way that women and girls identify themselves or explain their experiences. With this in mind, the EDID partnership seeks to model inclusive approaches, both in the content of what we study and in the practice of working together.

Connect with us!

EMAIL: edid-ghdi@uoguelph.ca

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BLUESKY: @edid-ghdi.bsky.social

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edid-ghdi

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@EDID-GHDI

BLOG: https://liveworkwell.ca/category/edid-ghdi

INSTAGRAM: Coming Soon!

MAIL: Live Work Well Research Centre, University of Guelph, Attention: EDID-GHDI, 501 MacKinnon Building, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

Connect with us!

EMAIL: edid-ghdi@uoguelph.ca

TWITTER: @edid-ghdi

INSTAGRAM: @edid_ghdi

MAIL: Live Work Well Research Centre, University of Guelph, Attention: EDID-GHDI, 501 MacKinnon Building, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1