Disabilities through the Capability Approach lens: Implications for public policies

The United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: Opportunities and tensions within the social inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities

“…Recently proposals particularly sensitive to the aspirations of people with disabilities for estimating inclusion and participation within a population have emerged (Trani, Bakhshi, Bellanca, Biggeri, & Marchetta, 2011). With similar goals in mind different authors have put forward proposals using different methodological tools for monitoring whether policy is coherent with the attributes of articles of the United Nations Convention (Bickenbach, 2011;Madans, Loeb, & Altman, 2011;Mannan et al, 2012) and others.…”

Youth’s Responsible Sexuality and Capability Approach: A Conceptual Framework

“…The framework of analysis that we are going to describe did not have the same objectives as the work of Nussbaum [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] and the team of Pavia [7]. In order to examine the responsible sexuality for young people through the Capability Approach, while taking account of these works, we decided to stick to a logical structuring between the definition of the Capability Approach, the factors of variation in the benefit that an individual can derive from the use of the resources made available to him or her and the fundamental principles of right and freedom with regard to sexual, reproductive health and rights.…”

“…Indeed, it served as a framework for analysis and / or exploration for the well-being [3]; to gender inequality [4,5]; to Self-help [6]; to poverty [7]; and to disability [8]. The focus on the Capability Approach was due to the fact that it revolutionized the way development was viewed and initiated the concept of "human development" in 1990 [9].…”

Approaching Development Projects from a Human Development and Capability Perspective

“…Although labelling has not been a central topic in the capability literature, it is considered by Trani et al (2011) in their analysis of public policies with regard to disability and by Walker et al (2013) in their study of urban projects in Mumbai, India. Both studies argue that the capability approach allows us to consider the multiple differences between people.…”