Deadline: 23-Jul-22
The African Disability Forum, West Africa Federation of the Disabled (WAFOD), the International Disability Alliance (IDA), and Humanity and Inclusion (HI) have the pleasure to launch this open call for participation in the Bridge CRPD-SDGs Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso & Togo.
The training consists of two week-long residential modules of 7 days each, with an intervening period of six months within which participants undertake to write a policy paper. Participants are expected to take their learnings forward with an organization of persons with disabilities (OPD) that they are linked to.
This is a two-part intensive training focused on an inclusive and comprehensive understanding of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as well as generating a human rights-based perspective on development, in general, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular.
The medium of the training will be French with simultaneous interpretation in the National Sign Languages. Where required, participants will be supported to have materials and access in Braille, alternative script, or augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication that they may be using.
Elements
The basic quality of a Bridge CRPD-SDGs Training Initiative is ensured by focusing on 3 main elements:
- Composition, diversity and inclusiveness of the group of participants,
- Facilitation team, and an
- Inclusive facilitation plan.
Eligibility Criteria
Persons with disabilities from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. They welcome applications from all ages, levels of experience, all levels of literacy, and across the diversity of the disability movement, especially from those groups who face high restrictions in participation.
- The Bridge CRPD-SDGs Training is meant to strengthen the OPD movement, therefore, applicants must show linkages to the OPD movement, at any level.
- Candidates should be an active member, staff or volunteer of an OPD or OPD federation which works at the national, sub-regional or continental level.
- The OPD does not need to be a formally registered organization, especially if you are a person with disability from an underrepresented group. It can be a collective, or a network, but it must be led by persons with disabilities and working on rights-based advocacy on the rights of persons with disabilities.
- All candidates must show a commitment to learning, exchange, mentor and support other disability activists within their own group and beyond: be this at a local, national or regional level.
- Even if you work with a single impairment group, you must have a genuine commitment to working inclusively to strengthen a cross-disability movement, being ready to share and learn about the complexity and diversity of the lived experience of disability.
- Preferably, candidates must have a working awareness of the CRPD and a commitment to learn more about how to apply human rights concepts approach, including using other human rights treaties, and the SDGs to advocate for disability inclusive public policy at national and local levels, however, this may be relaxed in the case of persons who have not had access to this exposure on account of the barriers they have faced.
- Candidates must demonstrate experience, interest and aptitude to engage in influencing development processes and public policy, be this at a local, national or regional level,
- Finally, candidates must be able to fully attend both modules and to undertake given assignments. A full missed day disqualifies the participant from completing the Bridge training.
- This will be a fully residential training, and candidates will also have to respect the COVID-19 related protocols that will be in place for the training.
Note: There are no fees payable to the organizers either by participants or their organizations to attend the Bridge CRPD-SDGs Training.
All participants will be asked to sign a letter of commitment, that they will revert the knowledge they receive back to the organization that supported their application.
For more information, visit https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/blog/bridge-crpd-sdgs-niger-benin-burkina-faso-togo