Free Online Course Alert: The DiDRR e-Learning on Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Is Open to Everyone in Africa, and It Is Exactly What Our Community Needs

Introduction: Disaster Hits People with Disabilities Hardest: This Course Is Changing That When a flood sweeps through a community, when a building collapses after an earthquake, when a pandemic locks down an entire city, persons with disabilities are statistically among the last to be evacuated, the least likely to receive warnings in accessible formats, and…

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CBM Global: How African Disability Organisations Can Become Partner Organisations and Access Sustainable Programme Support

Most conversations about disability funding in Africa focus on grant competitions with fixed windows, competitive eligibility criteria, and application processes that favour larger or better-resourced organisations. These routes matter, but they are not the only route. CBM Global operates differently. It works through long-term local partnerships, choosing to embed its resources into the structures of…

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

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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