Special Issue on Knowledge and disability inclusive development

The most recent issue of the open access 'Knowledge Management for Development Journal' focuses on disability inclusive development. It represents the second part of a double issue on this theme. Published on 25 January 2017, the Special Issue explores the role of knowledge and knowledge processes in disability inclusive development in low and middle income countries. Disability inclusive development requires negotiated understanding and synthesis of ‘multiple knowledges’ to address the multiple forms of disadvantage experienced by people with disabilities in diverse settings. To this end, contributors to this special issue share a concern with various ways in which different types of knowledge are recognized, valued and shared by different stakeholders in the development process, to generate new insights and evidence to inform policy and program planning to address disability-related disadvantage in different contexts. The purpose is to enhance understanding of how to create fertile conditions for insightful learning and meaningful action among all stakeholders concerned with disability and development who have different ways of knowing and experiencing the world. Study sites include Ghana, India, Tanzania and Uganda.