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The Washington Group Disability Training Workshops

…The Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) has conducted or participated in numerous disability training workshops designed to disseminate information on the collection and dissemination of disability data, and…

Online training: Understanding and Using the WG Short Set

…Online training: Understanding and Using the WG Short Set This 2-hour course has been designed to support humanitarian program staff understand, plan for and use, the Washington Group questions to identify persons with…

The Washington Group Secretariat will provide a training workshop to the Disabled People's Organisations Denmark and partners in Ghana, Nepal and Rwanda

…The Washington Group Secretariat will provide a training workshop to the Disabled People's Organisations Denmark and partners in Ghana, Nepal and Rwanda On August 25th 2021, the Washington Group Secretariat provided a…

Training On How To Ask “Disability” Questions On Censuses And Surveys

Training On How To Ask “Disability” Questions On Censuses And Surveys

Training On How To Ask “Disability” Questions On Censuses And Surveys This blog entry provides information on how to train interviewers for dealing with disability in either surveys or censuses. It addresses both the…

Technical Implementation Meeting in Fiji, for National Statistical Offices in the Pacific, July 2016

…26 delegates from 14 nations attended the Technical Implementation Meeting in Fiji in July 2016. The training provided technical training for the Pacific countries implementing the Washington Group questions in an…

How do I train enumerators?

Training enumerators in how to use the WG questions is crucial and should ideally be followed up by ongoing supervision in the field. Key points to emphasize in training include: The word ‘disability’ is not…

Who is entitled to be a WG member and how?

…p is open to any United Nations Member State. If you are interested in attending a meeting or organizing training you should contact The Secretariat.

WG-Extended Set: Results of Cognitive and Field Testing – UN ESCAP 2010

… and testing for census to measure disability through censuses, and produced a Disability Statistics Training Manual. The second project (2008 – 2010) was entitled ‘Improvement of Disability Measurement and…

Learning From The Use Of The Washington Group Questions In Development And Humanitarian Programmes

Learning From The Use Of The Washington Group Questions In Development And Humanitarian Programmes

… Does The WG-SS Differ From Disability Eligibility Determination? for more detail on this point). Training as a Pre-Condition for Collection of Quality and Reliable Data Overall, training has a positive…

Disability Measurement and the Washington Group on Disability Statistics for Non-Government Organisations, March 2017

… London website, where the videos are hosted. These videos are a live recording of an Introductory training for Non-Government Organisations. At times some of the question and answer section may be hard to…