DISABILITY INCLUSIVENESS DEVELOPMENT - RESEARCH PROGRAMME COMPONENT INFORMATION NOTE FOR EARLY MARKET ENGAGEMENT DFID intends to publish a new opportunity shortly to seek partners for a new Disability Inclusive Development (DID) programme, valued between £25- £30 million, which will improve the long-term well-being and inclusion of people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. A complementary component the DID programme will be a new Disability Research Programme. In delivery of these improvements the DID programme seeks to: • Design and implement innovation interventions in DFID priority countries, using contexts that test new approaches to disability inclusion, focusing in areas where evidence is weak; • Generate a rigorous body of evidence of ‘what works’ in particular contexts and deliver significant results for people with disabilities through scale-up of promising interventions; • Ensure that the evidence and learning generated is used in DFID and across the development community to catalyse global action and investment. • Generate reliable and comparable data on incidence and prevalence of disability which is disaggregated by type and across contexts; This Information Note concerns commissioning the delivery of a high quality Disability Research programme component which is expected to have a budget of up to £7 million.