Disability News & Opportunities Across Africa. Covering jobs, grants, advocacy, inclusion, health, education, and programs for persons with disabilities across all 54 African nations.
Climate change disability Africa is rapidly becoming a major crisis affecting millions of people across the continent. As climate impacts intensify, persons with disabilities face greater risks due to systemic exclusion from emergency systems and climate policies. Climate change disability Africa is not just an environmental issue—it is a human rights and inclusion issue that…
African Disability Protocol implementation has become the defining issue for disability rights across the continent in 2026. While many countries have ratified the treaty, the real challenge now lies in turning commitments into measurable outcomes. Across Africa, governments are facing increasing pressure to move beyond promises and begin enforcing disability rights in practical, visible ways….
For most of Nigeria’s political history, the 35 million Nigerians who live with disabilities have occupied a familiar position in the country’s political landscape: they appear in party manifestos as a group to be served, they are mentioned in speeches as a constituency to be considered, and then they are largely absent from the rooms…
At a media roundtable held in Abuja on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, disability rights advocates in Nigeria did something that does not happen often enough in African policy spaces: they sat down with journalists, opened the government’s own commitments document, and went through it line by line, pointing out what had been promised, what deadline…
Kenya passed one of the most progressive disability laws on the African continent in May 2025. It was celebrated. It was described as transformative. International development partners called it a turning point. And then, as so often happens in the space between the signing of a law and its implementation, the celebration faded and the…
Status: Open Now | LOI Deadline: June 21, 2026 | Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia, Pacific Island Countries | Funder: Disability Rights Fund (DRF) The Disability Rights Fund has officially opened its 2026 grant round. The application portal is live today, and the deadline for submitting a Letter of Interest (LOI) is Sunday,…
Overview In a development that marks one of the most concrete institutional commitments to disability inclusion in Kenya’s public sector in recent years, the Kenya Public Service Commission (PSC) signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on May 23, 2026, alongside three partner organizations: the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), CBM Kenya, and…
Introduction A Landmark Step Toward Campus Inclusion For students with disabilities navigating Nigeria’s universities and polytechnics the journey to a lecture hall can begin long before the first class it begins at the gate at the staircase at a door that was never designed with them in mind That reality is now squarely in the…
There is money set aside for persons with disabilities in every single parish in Uganda. It is government money, it is backed by a presidential directive, and it is available right now. Yet in many districts across the country, the majority of eligible persons with disabilities have never received a single shilling of it. This…
For hundreds of thousands of South Africans living with disabilities, the monthly payment from the South African Social Security Agency is not just financial assistance, it is a lifeline. The SASSA Disability Grant provides the primary source of income for people who cannot work due to a medically confirmed disability, helping them cover food, transport,…
