From 12 to 18 April 2018, Uganda played host to the first Module of the Bridge CRPD-SDGs training initiative. The Bridge CRPD-SDGs aims to support organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs)...
BRIDGE CRPD-SDG is an intensive training programme that aims to support organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs) and disability rights advocates to develop an inclusive (all persons with disabilities) and comprehensive (all human rights) CRPD perspective on development, including the post-2015 agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to reinforce their advocacy for inclusion and realisation of rights of persons with disabilities.
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Testimonials of the Technical Workshop on Ensuring the Rights of Indigenous Persons with Disabilities
From the 20th to the 23rd August, the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network (IPWDGN), the Narok South Disability Network and the International Disability Alliance (IDA) held a Workshop on ensuring the rights...
Fernanda de Almeida Santana
Country: Brazil
Organisation: Latin American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and their Families (RIADIS)
Completed: BRIDGE CRPD-SDG Training of Trainers Module A, Geneva, Feb 2018
“I’m so excited to be taking part in the BRIDGE CRPD-SDG Training of Trainers Module A which is showing me the methodology behind training persons with all types of disabilities. Being in such a diverse group gives me exposure on how to work together and collaboratively with different disability consistencies and from all over the world!”
“I am the President of an association called Abraça, which is the Brazilian Association for Action on the rights of Autistic People. At Abraça, we deliver training to smaller local associations, and also deliver awareness campaigns and campaigns specifically on the CRPD. We also look at the national legislation to ensure that the law are respecting the CRPD.”
“As an Autistic person, I am looking forward to contributing with my own experience from this training and deliver training to autistic persons in my country. The BRIDGE CRPD-SDG training is intense and I’ve already learnt some tips that I will use in delivering training to autistic people in my country.”
BRIDGE CRPD-SDG is a unique inclusive capacity development initiative with the aim to supporting organisations of persons with disabilities and activist to develop an inclusive and comprehensive perspective on the rights of persons with disabilities in development, including the UN 2030 Agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs). The BRIDGE CRPD-SDG training has already been delivered to more than 140 leaders and activists with disabilities in South East Asia, Latin America, Indonesia, East and West Africa and the Pacific. More information on the BRIDGE CRPD- SDG training available at: http://bit.ly/2yLHWjG
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame
Country: Ghana
Organisation: Sightsavers
Completed: BRIDGE Training of Trainers Module B, Brighton 2017
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame from Ghana represents Sightsavers, a UK-based international charity which fights avoidable blindness and promotes equal opportunities for visually impaired people. “I have been trained to deliver a capacity-building training – known as the BRIDGE CRPD-SDGs - so that I can increase the capacity of organisations of persons with disabilities in the countries where we work. Already, I have noted an increased of the strengthening in the work of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations in our efforts around advocacy on disability rights”.
The BRIDGE CRPD- SDG training works to strengthen the understanding of international conventions and commitments. The training links the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This program also helps the participants to translate the generalities of the CRPD and SDGs into tangible ways that can transform the lives of persons with disabilities at the grassroots level. More information on the BRIDGE CRPD- SDG training available at: http://bit.ly/2yLHWjG
The BRIDGE CRPD-SDG training has already been delivered to more than 140 leaders and activists with disabilities in South East Asia, Latin America, Indonesia, East and West Africa and the Pacific.
“Because of the training and my role in delivering it, I have stronger collaborations and partnerships with local and global activists, and the disability community is growing stronger. My organisation is working with regional governments to make sure that the commitments they make at the United Nations are actually translated at country level”.
Gertrude has been an instrumental leader for the rights of women with disabilities in her region, and has delivered sessions on women’s rights during capacity building workshops. Due to her leadership, Gertrude will be nominee of the government of Ghana to become an independent expert on the rights of persons with disabilities to the UN CRPD Committee.