DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSWorking with disabled people and their organisations in developing countries

• Strengthening partner organisations • Disabled children and girls’ education

• Disabled people’s rights • Mental health self help groups • Deaf children’s education • Disabled people’s livelihoods 2014

Bindu Nepali of the Forumfor Human Rights &Disabled conducting aninterview with Lal BahadurChaudhari for a base linestudy in Narayanpur village,Dang district, western Nepal.

INDIA

Our work in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadustates is with organisations dedicated to theeducation and wellbeing of disabled childrenand youths, and their families.

Junior secondary education at KiranSociety

Kiran School, a model of inclusivity where 50% ofchildren are not disabled, is providing lowersecondary education with the completion of a six-room two-storey accessible building. We are proudto enhance the learning experience for all 350children using the Kiran campus by fully equippingthree rooms for IT training, audio-visual education,and a video and science lab.

Funded by the Equitable Charitable Trust

Health Awareness and Livelihoods(HAL)

In April 2014 we embarked on the four-year HALprogramme with the Kiran Society by assembling ateam of 26 community-based workers for the 50targeted villages in Varanasi and Mirzapur districtsof Uttar Pradesh state. Our aims are to reducepoverty and hunger, and to improve the health of

mothers and the estimated 9,000 children belowthe age of five. HAL will include training for localhealth workers, anganwadi (village based nursery)workers, and post and ante natal workers. It willalso provide rehabilitation services for up to 1,000children and young people, and disability awarenessfor all. The team will also set up 40 new women ledself-help groups, and strengthen existing ones, forwomen to be agents of change and to alleviate thedeep poverty which lies at the root of poor healthand disability in rural India.

Funded by the BIG Lottery Fund

Computer training at SDET

We have supported the Social DevelopmentEducation Trust (SDET) in Virudhnagar district ofTamil Nadu state to run a vocational computertraining centre which this year has trained 35disabled and disadvantaged tribal youths.

Funded by CMG (Logica) plc Staff Charity and

North South Development Trust

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Women voice their opinions on health matters atself-help group meeting in Tikri Village

Getting to gripswith wordprocessing atKiran!

IT graduates proudly show off certificates withtheir trainer, Manimegalle (in blue sari)

NEPAL

Our focus on disabled people’s rights is nowleading to new programmes to provide accessto livelihoods, education and mental health.

Disabled people’s human rights andNepal’s constitution

Nepal Disabled Human Rights Centre (DHRC-Nepal) and DDP celebrated the conclusion of themajor five-year Disabled People’s Advocacy forChange (DPAC) programme at a gala event withlocal partners, team members past and present andwell-wishers. This project was developed seven yearsago at the end of Nepal’s monarchical rule, and wasan opportunity to invest in the democraticaspirations of disabled people, who have for so long

been marginalised and whose numbers had swelledduring the country’s 10 year conflict. Its mainobjective was to ensure that disabled people’s rightsare enshrined in Nepal’s new democraticconstitution using the tenets of the United NationsConvention on the Rights of Persons withDisability (UNCRPD).

DPAC enabled DHRC-Nepal to build thecapacity of over 50 grass roots DPOs across Nepalto participate in the democratisation process,directly informed over 25,000 people aboutdisability rights and helped them secure theirentitlements, raised the profile of Nepal’s disability

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Shudarson Subedi (centre), DHRC co-founder andcurrently President of the National Federation ofthe Disabled - Nepal joins the National Associationof the Blind rally in Butwol, April 2014

Majhi Bharati (seated on left), a deaf womancheated of her land in Sindhupalchok district,regained it after her sister (on the right) learntabout disabled people's rights

National Association of the Blind rally in Butwol,western Nepal, April 2014

movement in regional forums and internationalnetworking. It has also provided a springboard forDDP’s other partnerships in Nepal, shedding a lighton invisible disabilities such as mental illness anddeafness.

Funded by UKAid

Poverty alleviation in four districts ofwestern Nepal

This new project coordinated by DHRC-Nepal,which started in April 2014 with DPO partners inthe districts of Tanahun, Bardiya, Surkhet andDang, is a natural extension to five years of buildinggrass roots capacity through DPAC. The project willprovide quality livelihood opportunities for 1500disabled people and their families (7500 people inall) over three years.

Funded by UKAid

SHRUTI – National association forhard­of­hearing and deafened, Nepal

Hard-of-hearing children suffer in silence and areoften labelled as stupid because the condition is notvisible, children are unable to express their needs,and teachers are also often unaware that childrenhave hearing difficulties. We are supportingSHRUTI to conduct a pilot project to test the

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Base line study interview by Bardiya DPO

Theatre in education - DPAC takes the rights message to secondary schools

hearing of 450 children in two primary schools inKathmandu, giving practical assistance to thosewith hearing difficulties and using the findings tohighlight this neglected issue.

Funded by the Equitable Charitable Trust

Breaking the chains of stigma

We congratulate KOSHISH’s Matrika Devkota forwinning the prestigious Dr Guislain Award 2013for his outstanding work in raising awareness of andfighting the stigma associated with mental illness inNepal. We are continuing our efforts to supportKOSHISH to reform mental health policy inNepal.

ETHIOPIA

All four projects with partner BerhanLehetsanat (BL, formerly called HandicapNational) focus on girls and women, disabledchildren, and youth education and training,while the latest partnership with the DeafDevelopment and Information Association(DDIA) is for work with deaf youth.

Education and LivelihoodOpportunities for Girls and Women(ELGW)

Now in its penultimate year, ELGW, which workswith over 5,000 school pupils and 585 teachers in18 primary schools, is set to endure thanks to thededicated local team in Hawassa, and the

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Matrika Devkota (2nd from right) with his team

SHRUTI members with founders, Neeta (1st fromleft) and Maheshwar (2nd from right)

Sherbeto Yoka, one of 600 women beneficiaries ofthe ELGW project, sells insett (false banana flour)at Tulla market. She is a member of an associationof Tulla’s Ketema kebele.

constructive relationships that have been developedwith the local community and government. Thisyear we commissioned a study to find out whyharmful traditional practices such as female genitalmutilation persist in the project area, despite beingillegal. The findings have helped us to take action to

prevent these practices where possible, as they trulyhamper girls’ progress in education.

Funded by Comic Relief

From Childhood to Livelihood (FCTL)

Launched a year ago the project team has laid thefoundations of ‘education, skills training andbeyond’ for disabled youngsters. Working withHawassa College of Teacher Education they havebeen finalising and testing an inclusive teachertraining curriculum, so that all student teachers willbe trained in special needs education. By the end ofthe project in 2017 over 8,000 graduate teacherswill be putting into practice special needsknowledge and training throughout schools inEthiopia’s southern region.

Funded by BIG Lottery Fund

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Potter Manitu Geramo, one of ELGW's 600 women beneficiaries is making a better living by having a pitch atTulla market

After school girls' tutorial classes

Grades 9 and 10 students in Tulla High Schoolcan at last sit and learn comfortably in class, eachwith a desk and chair. A new eight-room two-storeyclassroom and toilet blocks have now beencompleted so that an extra 300 students areaccommodated. There has been a spectacularreduction in the drop-out rate from 67% to lessthan 1%, which the School Director attributesdirectly to the improvements brought about by thisproject.Funded by Band Aid Charitable Trust and Guernsey

Overseas Aid Commission

The Women and Girls Centre project provides adedicated space where women and girls can supporteach other, and gain access to training andopportunities they would never have had otherwise.This centre is right by Tulla High School, so that126 girl students come for extra tuition, whichhelps them pass exams to stay at school.Additionally, 54 women are attending adult literacyclasses, and 83 women have received legal advice.BL is negotiating with the local women andchildren’s office to ensure the future of the centreand its services.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

IT training for deaf and hard­of­hearing young people

We are supporting the Deaf Development andInformation Association (DDIA) who haveprovided training for 100 deaf and hard-of-hearingyoung men and women in IT and enterprise set-up. In the first enterprise venture of this type fordeaf people in Ethiopia, 70 of these young peoplewill set up 10 cyber cafe co-operatives.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

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Tulla High School's new 8 room classroom block

Manjula with primary school pupils in Tulla subcity, Hawassa

BURUNDI

Through DDP’s long involvement with deafchildren’s education in Burundi we have nowdeveloped opportunities to work with otherdisadvantaged and marginalised people, includingreturnees.

Signing up for deaf children in Burundi

We are supporting the parents’ association at EcoleEphphatha pour les Sourds (EES – Ephphathaschool for deaf children) to reach out to parents indifferent parts of the country to share their concernsand knowledge about their children’s education andcommunications needs. We hope that they will leadadvocacy with the ministry of education and healthfor better provisions for deaf kids. Back at EES,special needs training courses for teachers and signlanguage interpreters and sign language training forparents and siblings of deaf pupils will continue toimprove the quality of education and

communication support for deaf children inBurundi.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

More sports

We are helping EES pupils play more sports! Forthe first time a physical education teacher has beenemployed and sports activities time tabled for all142 pupils. The school’s field has been levelledwhere the country's first international inclusivefootball tournament will take place with fourschools competing – including a deaf school fromthe Democratic Republic of Congo.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, Evan

Cornish Foundation and DeafKidz International

IT training

Deaf children at EES must also prepare for workand adulthood and IT skills can be a most inclusivemedium for them. A classroom has beenrefurbished as an IT training unit with Wi-Ficonnection, a full-time trainer and 10 desktop

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On your marks, get set, go! Polycarpe Bakorishaka, physical education teacher and EES pupils

computers to introduce IT skills to EES’s childrenand teachers.

Funded by the British & Foreign Schools Society

‘Twunganire abahungutse’ (EveryoneSupports Returnees)

While discussing disabled children’s rights with theAssociation Communautaire pour la Promotionet la Protection des Droits de l’Homme(ACPDH), a human rights organisation, they

expressed an urgent need to help some of thethousands of Burundians who had been expelledfrom Tanzania in December 2012 where they hadbeen refugees for many years. Without ‘home’connections, civil rights and sometimes even thelocal language, these returnees face poverty andexclusion. We will directly help 150 families whofind themselves displaced within their own countryand support ACPDH to continue their advocacyand human rights advice work and their drop-incentre.

Funded by the Baring Foundation

Flood victims

Following unprecedentedly heavy rains, floods tookpeople unawares on the night of 10th February2014 in parts of the capital city, Bujumbura. Over70 people were killed, 1,000 homes destroyed and3,000 people, many children, were left destitute.DDP’s two partner, EES and ACPDH, were quickto contact us with news of this devastation and wethank Jersey Overseas Aid Commission whoresponded swiftly and generously to our appeal withan emergency grant of over £20,000 to provideurgently needed food, clothes, and children’s schoolmaterials for 489 families (2606 people).

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Young mother who lost everything in floodscollects essential food and kitchen items to startagain.

Bigirimana Louise, a single mother with 5 children is accommodated in the unused jail cell of Gatumbacommune administration

MOZAMBIQUE

DDP’s 20 year engagement with disabledpeople in Mozambique continues with a newpartnership and we expect about 3,000 youngdisabled people and their families to improvetheir standards of living in the two newinitiatives starting late in 2014.

Disabled youth and rights

We are delighted to partner with Associação DosJovens Deficientes De Moçambique (AJODEMO– a national disabled youth organisation). The firstproject will bridge the gap between theory andpractice in the government’s obligations towardsdisabled young people. Through awareness raising

and training disabled youths can be effectivecitizens, knowing their rights under domesticlegislation and the UNCRPD, to collaborate withlocal government officials as duty bearers to upholdthem. This two-year initiative is in 2 districts of theprovince of Maputo and includes the capital city,Maputo, and in Xai-Xai city and two other districtsof Gaza province.

Funded by the Commonwealth Foundation

Training and livelihood opportunitiesfor young disabled people

In a second and complementary initiative withAJODEMO practical assistance, through skills andenterprise training and start-up funds, will be givento 300 young disabled people to create their ownlivelihoods and support their families. With

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Cantol Pondja and AJODEMO member travelling in Quelimane to reach out to disabled youth and organiselocal branches.

training provided by the government vocationaltraining agency, candidates will be assessed forbusiness start-up kits and other materials andprofits from their enterprises will be revolved toother young disabled people to start their ownenterprises.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

SOUTH TO SOUTHEXCHANGES

This year we facilitated partner networkexchanges between India and Ethiopia, andbetween Nepal and Myanmar.

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Ruma Banerjee and Manjula Nanjundaiah of Seva-in-Action (SIA), from India shared their expert knowledge ofinclusive practices in schools with partners BL and the Hawassa College of Teacher Education in Ethiopia.

Jagadish Adhikari (back row, 2nd from left) of DHRC-Nepal and Shudarson Subedi (back row 3rd from right)of the National Federation of Disabled People, Nepal found much in common as DPOs in emergingdemocracies when they visited the Myanmar Independent Living Initiative in Yangon. MILI founders Aung KoMyint (1st from left, back row) and Nay Lin Soe (front row, 1st from left)

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Expenditure 2013-2014: £543,727

Programmes &Projects: £525,677 (97%)

Management &Administration: £12,868 (2%)

Fundraising &Publicity: £5,182 (1%)

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Income 2013-2014: £588,908

Grants: £573,276 (97%)

Individual Donors: £15,389 (<3%)

Other (Interest): £243 (<1%)

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Deaf children's families learn sign language at classes organised by Ephphatha school for deaf