Disability News & Opportunities Across Africa. Covering jobs, grants, advocacy, inclusion, health, education, and programs for persons with disabilities across all 54 African nations.
The Women Environmental Programme (WEP) is seeking strategic partnerships with government institutions and community stakeholders in Nasarawa State as it begins implementing the Transforming Her Resilience, Inclusion and Value in Economies (THRIVE) Project. The initiative is designed to strengthen resilience, inclusion and economic empowerment for women, including women with disabilities, and WEP has been engaging…
Disability advocates have commended the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for steps taken to improve airport accessibility and assistance for persons with disabilities and other passengers with reduced mobility. The commendation comes amid a broader conversation about whether Nigeria’s airports provide passengers with disabilities with safe, dignified and genuinely independent access throughout the entire…
The National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) has partnered with the Discovering Ability in Disability Initiative to create a new entertainment platform designed to showcase the talents and abilities of persons with disabilities. The partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on August 18, 2026, will support the development of a reality…
Nigeria Disability Tech Summit 1.0 has opened a call for volunteers to join the team building Nigeria’s first major disability technology summit, bringing together technology, accessibility, innovation and inclusion.
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,…
