Evidence & learning
Impact and results
Results help show what practical support changes for people, families and the services around them. The figures below come from the partner information assembled in the DPRP website content draft.
Reported results in DR Congo
These figures cover ADED and AJEPAD. They are not totals for the whole DPRP alliance. The reporting periods and dates still need confirmation.
- 7,200
- Children and youth with disabilities identified and supported by ADED and AJEPAD.
- 144,000
- Women and family members reached with prevention and maternal-health awareness.
- 61
- Community-Based Rehabilitation Facilitators paid by local government.
ADED reports 6,200 children and youth, 131,000 women and family members, and 55 state-paid facilitators. AJEPAD reports 1,000 children and youth, 13,000 women and family members, and six state-paid facilitators.
Where the work is developing
The draft records five country contexts: Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bangladesh. Comparable country-level information is still being gathered. Friendship’s Bangladesh pilot is described in the draft but is not yet reflected in its own public communications.
Three active health zones are named in the DRC results table: Uvira, Goma/Nyiragongo and Bagira. These are the zones listed for ADED. AJEPAD also works in Baraka; whether and how Baraka should be counted in the combined coverage figure remains to be clarified.
The country profiles contain the available figures for Karuna Foundation Nepal, ADED, AJEPAD, CBIDO and The Action Foundation, together with programme stages, planned exits and information still to be confirmed.
Read the full country profiles
Earlier care in Uvira
The draft describes a maternal-health centre in Uvira that expanded access to ultrasound through DPRP. Staff were able to detect pregnancy complications earlier and arrange appropriate care. After seeing the results, other health centres in the same zone invested their own funds in ultrasound equipment.
This is a proposed example of what the prevention work can change in practice. The full account and its latest figures still need review with ADED and Tunafasi.
Research and evidence
DPRP offers experience across several countries in community-based rehabilitation, disability prevention and public services shaped by local people. Researchers can help evaluate outcomes, document how the approach changes across contexts and strengthen the evidence behind the work.
- Access to available programme data and documentation.
- Connections with partner organisations for fieldwork or interviews.
- Collaboration on research and learning materials that the organisations doing the work can also use.
The draft identifies a cost-effectiveness assessment by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and recognition by the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD). The underlying research documents have not yet been supplied to the public library. As they become available for publication, they should be linked here alongside the results.
Get in touch about researchFigures still being reconciled
The draft’s proposed homepage snapshots use a different set of DRC figures: 20,000+ children and youth supported, 300,000+ women and family members reached, and 500 government-paid facilitators. These do not match the partner breakdown above. Their reporting periods, coverage and relationship to the 7,200 / 144,000 / 61 totals need confirmation before either set can be presented as a single current headline.
The draft also describes 25+ years of practice and, in its Nepal story, more than two decades. Its history dates the Inspire2Care pilot to 2007. The scope and start date behind those duration claims need clarification; they are not treated here as a confirmed programme age.
Completing the picture
Comparable reach figures are still needed for Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania and Bangladesh, including children and families supported and municipalities covered. Figures already included in individual profiles need reporting dates and consistent definitions. The results page and country map also need an agreed update schedule.
Research documents will be added when the files and publication details are available. Until then, the figures above retain their country and partner labels and the gaps remain explicit.