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The Guidance Note is structured along seven main chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction Sets the stage for the guidance note, outlining its purpose, scope, and intended audience.
Chapter 2: The 'What?' Presents the current situation of persons with disabilities globally, highlighting the barriers—social, institutional, physical, and attitudinal—that undermine their rights and hinder their full participation in society.
Chapter 3: The 'Why?' Explains why disability is a cross-cutting concern in EU external action. It reinforces the policy rationale and elaborates on the international and EU frameworks that mandate disability inclusion, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the EU's own strategic commitments.
Chapter 4: The 'How?' – Concepts and Approaches Details key concepts and approaches for disability inclusion and shows how they can be integrated into the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA). It promotes concepts such as accessibility, inclusion, empowerment, and non-discrimination as central to effective cooperation.
Chapter 5: Application Across the Intervention Cycle Provides practical guidance on how to integrate disability inclusion at every stage of the intervention cycle, from programming and design, through implementation, to monitoring, evaluation, and closure.
Chapter 6: Leading by Example Explores how the EU as a public administration can lead by example through inclusive internal practices, procurement, communication, and staff engagement. It encourages institutional ownership of disability inclusion.
Chapter 7: Resources and Tools Points to key resources, further reading, and practical tools, including good practice examples, to support users in putting disability inclusion into action effectively.
Other than the main text, each chapter includes several "boxes" which serve as practical, easy-to-use tools. These boxes present key messages, direct references to both internal and external resources—such as the legal framework, survey methodologies, and field examples. All this content can be readily extracted and adapted for specific needs, whether for policy dialogue with partner countries, targeted discussions with implementing partners, or the design of monitoring systems.
In addition, some boxes are dedicated to facilitating understanding and correct use of terminology, helping users apply appropriate language and vocabulary when mainstreaming disability. These features make the guidance note a highly flexible and user-friendly resource across multiple operational contexts.

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