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Tanzania Country Focus: Social Housing, Oral Health, and the Growing Disability Inclusion Agenda in East Africa’s Largest Country

Tanzania, with a population of over 60 million people across the mainland and Zanzibar, is East Africa’s most geographically expansive country. Its disability community is represented primarily by the Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organisations, known as SHIVYAWATU, which coordinates advocacy and policy engagement across the country’s diverse regions and its unique mainland-island political structure….

Ethiopia Country Focus: Disability, Labour Force Exclusion, and the Fight for Inclusion in Africa’s Second-Largest Nation

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Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country, home to over 120 million people. With an estimated disability prevalence of around six percent, that translates to more than seven million Ethiopians living with disabilities — a population larger than the entire population of many African countries. The scale of the inclusion challenge in Ethiopia is enormous….

Uganda Country Focus: Africa’s Most Disability-Inclusive Constitution — and the Gap Between Law and Life

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Uganda occupies a unique position in the African disability rights landscape. Its 1995 Constitution explicitly recognises the rights of persons with disabilities including reserved parliamentary seats for disability representatives making it one of the most formally inclusive constitutional frameworks on the continent. Uganda was also one of the early ratifying states of the African Disability…

Ghana Country Focus: Disability Inclusion Progress, Gaps, and What to Watch in 2026

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Ghana has one of the most established legal frameworks for disability rights in West Africa. The Persons with Disability Act 715, passed in 2006, was one of the first comprehensive national disability laws on the continent. It predates the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Ghana ratified in 2012. In legal…

South Africa’s Housing Regulator Takes a Historic Step: SHRA Hosts First Disability Inclusion Dialogue in Gqeberha

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Housing is not simply shelter. For persons with disabilities, it is the foundation on which everything else employment, education, health, social participation either becomes possible or impossible. An inaccessible home is not just uncomfortable. It is a barrier to the world. South Africa has long acknowledged this in policy language. What has been missing, in…

Union Bank Nigeria Puts Women with Disabilities at the Centre of Its 2026 International Women’s Month Campaign

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Corporate disability inclusion campaigns in Nigeria often exist at the level of statement. A press release, a social media post, a token appearance by a disability representative at an event primarily designed for other audiences. What Union Bank of Nigeria did during International Women’s Month 2026 was different — not because it was perfect, but…

Global Fund for Children: Grants for Community Organisations Serving Children with Disabilities in Africa

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Of all the groups within the disability community, children with disabilities face perhaps the most compounded barriers. They are excluded from schools, denied healthcare, subject to harmful cultural beliefs, and frequently invisible in both official statistics and national policy. In Africa, where fewer than ten percent of children with disabilities attend school and where disability…

USD 300,000 Over Three Years: The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Grant That African Disability Social Enterprises Should Know About

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Most disability funding in Africa targets established OPDs with existing governance structures and track records. But what about the growing number of disability-focused social enterprises, hybrid organisations, and innovative impact-first ventures that are building new solutions to disability inclusion challenges across the continent? What about the organisation that has run a successful pilot programme, demonstrated…

Abilis Foundation: The Grant African Disability Organizations Can Apply for Any Time of Year

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Most international grant programmes operate on fixed annual cycles applications open in one month, close in another, and organizations that miss the window must wait another twelve months before they can try again. For small, under-resourced OPDs operating in complex environments, this rigidity is a structural barrier. Opportunities are missed not because of a weak…

Rights in Action: How CBM Global Is Strengthening Disability Advocacy in Nigeria and Zimbabwe

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Across Africa, disability advocacy is not primarily driven by international organisations or government agencies. It is driven by communities by organisations of persons with disabilities that operate with limited resources, enormous determination, and an intimate understanding of the daily realities their members face. The challenge, always, is how to strengthen these organisations so that their…

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Tanzania Country Focus: Social Housing, Oral Health, and the Growing Disability Inclusion Agenda in East Africa’s Largest Country

Ethiopia Country Focus: Disability, Labour Force Exclusion, and the Fight for Inclusion in Africa’s Second-Largest Nation

Uganda Country Focus: Africa’s Most Disability-Inclusive Constitution — and the Gap Between Law and Life

Ghana Country Focus: Disability Inclusion Progress, Gaps, and What to Watch in 2026

Union Bank Nigeria Puts Women with Disabilities at the Centre of Its 2026 International Women’s Month Campaign

Global Fund for Children: Grants for Community Organisations Serving Children with Disabilities in Africa

Abilis Foundation: The Grant African Disability Organizations Can Apply for Any Time of Year

Rights in Action: How CBM Global Is Strengthening Disability Advocacy in Nigeria and Zimbabwe