The project entitle ‘DisABILITY: Improving Quality of Work of Youth Organizations Working with People with Disabilities’ will take 15 months. It will start on 1.12. 2020 and it will finish on 28.2.2022. The project will consist from several mobility and capacity building activities created with aim to meet following objectives:1.To strengthen the competencies of CSOs representatives and capacities of their organizations to analyse needs of young people with disabilities, to design and to deliver activities addressing these needs and developing their competencies;2. To increase the competencies of CSOs representatives and capacities of their organizations to raise awareness of local communities on situation of young people with disabilities, to address existing stereotypes and prejudices and roots of discrimination and social exclusion;3. To link involved CSOs and other stakeholders and support development of new projects targeting young people with disabilities leading to creating more socially inclusive society. In the project will take part eight youth organizations working with people with intellectual and psychical disabilities representing Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary, North Macedonia, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Key project results will be increased competences of involved youth workers and educators working with people with disabilities, raised capacities of organizations involved in the project and in overall better quality of activities design with aim to empower and to develop competences of people with disabilities. For wider audience key product will be online course available for free for anyone interested to develop their capacities to work with people with disabilities.

<< Objectives >>By introducing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO 2001) as a common or umbrella language into diverse sectors of support for Persons with Disability the quality of support and the participation of all involved professionals and beneficiaries is increased. Based on its umbrella-character over diverse sectors (medical, social, educational) ICF leads to a desigmatisation of PwD, as abilities rather than disabilities and coordinated goals are focused.<< Implementation >>Implementation focuses on: a) information of relevant stakeholders (mainly quality assurance managers) of service providers, b) providing a tool (concrete guide towards implementation of ICF - including sector specific aspects) and c) pilot guidance in order to start mainly top-down implementation strategies. By the provided tool institutions are enabled to define necessary frameworks (e.g. training needs for their staff) and project steps. Current legal frames support implementation of ICF.<< Results >>The main result consist of: a) information about ICF-implementation frames and requirement, b) sector specific aspects, c) the benefits of a common (international, transparent, destigmatizing and participation goal oriented) language, d) initiated implementation processes, and e) cooperation necessities between diverse sectors in the support of persons with disabilities. These results contribute to a more transparent, participative, efficient and coordinated delivery of services for PwD.