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Patients waiting to attend a trachoma clinic.

A SAFE solution: Sightsavers’ fast-track initiative to eliminate blinding trachoma

A Sightsavers initiative outlining objectives to eliminate trachoma, which, according to the International Coalition for Trachoma Control, affects at least 110 million people living in areas where trachoma is endemic.

Children line up at an educational assessment centre in Kenya.

Making inclusive education a reality

A 2011 Sightsavers policy paper detailing an approach to ensuring that education is inclusive.

A child with a visual impairment learns in a school in India.

Eye health in children: policy brief

A policy brief outlining how school eye health programmes need to be comprehensive, and go beyond the detection and treatment of refractive errors.

Children wait to start lessons outside a school in Sierra Leone.

Education for all: addressing marginalisation

A 2010 set of recommendations by Sightsavers to address marginalisation in education.

A doctor performs cataract surgery in Tanzania.

Cataract services policy 2010

A policy guide by Sightsavers describing how services for cataract fit strategically with the international health agenda.

Children undergo inclusive schooling in a classroom in Sierra Leone.

The Educator: inclusive education

A publication on attempting to achieve inclusive education for all by the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI).

Representatives, teachers, and children attend a seminar on World Sight Day in Pakistan.

Islamabad declaration of accessibility

A declaration prepared by officials, representatives, workers, and people with disabilities on accessibility in Pakistan.

A Uganda woman with a physical disability sits alone in her house.

Not on the guest list: people with disabilities and the Millennium Development Goals

At the mid point of the Millennium Development goals Sightsavers addresses the exclusion of people with disabilities and sets out a context for discussion.

In Pakistan, a disabled mother sits with her large family.

Disability framework in Pakistan

A handbook detailing baseline information, policy perspectives and frameworks for analysis of the status of disability in Pakistan.

Adults and children in Malawi attend a project where a school is being built.

Getting disabled children into school in developing countries

A 2007 briefing outlining what donor governments must do to achieve Universal Primary Education.