Capacity Building & Awareness Raising

The GPDD works to strengthen the capacity of disabled people’s organizations (DPOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), governments, and other organizations to promote, guide, and facilitate the inclusion of disability issues and the participation of people with disabilities in international, regional, national, and community-level development policies and programs. One of GPDD’s primary areas of work includes raising awareness about the relationship between disability and poverty and the need to mainstream disability into development. GPDD’s capability building and awareness raising activities strive to impart knowledge about effective strategies and good practices to strengthen local efforts to identify and capitalize on entry points for disability in development activities as well as promote ability for disability inclusive monitoring and evaluation.

Projects

• Including People with Disabilities in Poverty Reduction and Social and Economic Growth and Development Strategies – A Demonstration Project in Mozambique