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Collaborating with disability groups has earned the Inclusive Futures consortium a Zero Project Award in 2024.

Johannes Trimmel, February 2024

Teenage girls learning trade skills in Nigeria pose for a group photo along with course leaders.

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Teenage girls from Kaduna State marked the global event by attending the launch of a new project that will give them the skills they need to start their own business.

January 2024

Two staff members enter ask a man questions during a survey about river blindness.

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The updated plan reaffirms Sightsavers' commitment to enhancing inclusive data and collaboration in the international development sector.

November 2023

Three women discuss gender-based violence at a workshop in Uganda.

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Women and girls with disabilities face a higher risk of gender-based violence, yet they are often prevented from receiving support due to inaccessible services.

Lucy Muchiri, November 2023

In a village in Mozambique, two people in blue polo shirts hold clipboards and talk to members of the local community.

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We spoke to Dominic Haslam, Sightsavers’ director of policy and programme strategy, about the launch of our second Inclusive Data Charter Action Plan and how it reaffirms our commitment to inclusive data.

Sightsavers, November 2023

John Chiti smiles while wearing sunglasses.

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The film ‘Can You See Us?’ is based on the life of John Chiti, who is a Zambian albinism rights campaigner and Sightsavers’ ambassador for the African Disability Protocol campaign.

September 2023

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There is compelling evidence that improving access to contraception can reduce mortality and high-risk pregnancies, improve child health and increase protection against sexually transmitted infections.

Andrea Pregel and Amalie Quevedo, September 2023

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The Promise in Peril campaign culminated at the SDG summit with a declaration reaffirming commitments to achieving the global goals that explicitly references disability rights.

September 2023

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As learners with disabilities are disproportionately affected by global crises such as climate change, we're urging governments to build more resilient education systems for everyone.

Mariana Rudge, September 2023

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Five years since the creation of the Inclusive Data Charter, we’re updating our goals and commitments on inclusive data. So what are our key learnings?

Tichafara Chisaka, July 2023

Junior Painter award-winner Lauren shows off her framed artwork.

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Finalists in Sightsavers Ireland’s annual competition have been celebrating their prizewinning artwork at an awards ceremony in Dublin.

July 2023

Joy Shu’aibu, Sightsavers’ director of programme operations in Nigeria.

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The conference, taking place in Kigali on 17-20 July 2023, is one of the world’s largest multi-sector events to advance gender equality.

July 2023

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In my years as a disability advocate, I’ve learned that getting angry needs to be accompanied by getting active. We wanted to advise organisations on how to do better to include women and girls with disabilities.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, July 2023

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Sightsavers’ Joseph Mensah shares four key learnings from a SBC programme in Ghana that aims to reduce stigma around disability, and how they'll inform our future SBC work.

Joseph Mensah, June 2023

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Sightsavers’ Cathy Stephen shares what we've learned from embedding inclusive, accessible social behaviour change processes in some of our recent projects in East and West Africa.

Cathy Stephen, June 2023

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Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares successes and what we learned from the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie participation project, which Sightsavers supported as a partner to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Peter Kwasi, June 2023

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Through Ghana Somubi Dwumadie, Sightsavers’ Diane Kingston delivered training that will help protect and promote effective mental health provision and human rights in Ghana.

Diane Kingston, June 2023

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Sightsavers’ Simon Brown shares how organisations like Sightsavers can influence labour markets to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in decent employment.

Simon Brown, June 2023

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Sightsavers’ Saleck Ould Dah and Ujala Sarfaraz highlight two key issues around disability inclusion that are hampering efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sightsavers, June 2023

As part of an Inclusion Works programme, Manuel, who has a physical disability, assists a colleague to check in a guest at a hotel in Kenya.

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Sightsavers has partnered with the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance to help make the hospitality sector accessible to everyone, with a particular focus on Africa and Asia.

April 2023

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Sightsavers’ Laurène Leclercq shares successes from an award-winning project in Cameroon and Senegal that’s supporting people with disabilities to participate in all aspects of political life.

Laurène Leclercq, March 2023

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame speaking into a microphone.

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Gertrude, who is Sightsavers’ global advocacy manager for social inclusion, becomes the first African woman to lead the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

March 2023

During a press interview in Senegal, a man faces a video camera while speaking into a microphone. Three fellow event attendees are standing behind him.

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The initiative outlines the steps needed to ensure that people with disabilities are represented in official data, which will inform the government’s planning and monitoring.

December 2022

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The prize was awarded for our inclusion project which promotes the rights of people with disabilities to participate in civic and political life in Cameroon and Senegal.

December 2022

A group photo of people involved in the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie programme.

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Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares the journey that led to the establishment of a parliamentary caucus that champions disability issues.

Peter Kwasi, November 2022

A woman with crutches walks into a building.

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We’re working with partners in Cameroon and Senegal to ensure people with disabilities are able to take part in every stage of the political process.

Two young people hold up flip charts on the wall as part of a training programme in Kenya.

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We’re working with partners in Kenya to give young people the skills and practical experience they need to begin a career in IT.

An older man smiles as he holds his right hand over his eye during an eye test.

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We’re working with governments in Uganda and Malawi to improve access to quality eye care services and prevent avoidable blindness.

Nora in her classroom with a student who is in a wheelchair. Nora is holding her hands in the air, and the student is watching.

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In Malawi, we work with partners to ensure young children with disabilities can learn, play and develop alongside their peers.

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The African Disability Protocol (ADP) addresses disability rights issues specific to people with disabilities living in African countries.

October 2022

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Disability and inclusion

The key to inclusive education is engaging organisations of people with disabilities

Spectrum Markets helps teenagers in Nigeria gain creative skills on World Children’s Day

Sightsavers launches new action plan on inclusive data

Collaborating to improve gender-based violence services

Lifting the rock on inclusive data: Sightsavers and the Inclusive Data Charter

Sightsavers campaign ambassador inspires Netflix film about albinism

Improving contraceptive choices and bodily autonomy for women and girls with disabilities

Sightsavers campaign sends message to world leaders at UN summit

How inclusive education can create a more equal and sustainable future

Inclusive data and Sightsavers: an ongoing journey

Junior Painter 2023: students’ ‘phenomenal’ artwork commended

Sightsavers to call for action on disability rights at Women Deliver Conference

First anger, then action: why you should sign the Feminist Accessibility Protocol

Social behaviour change: a game-changer to reduce stigma

Inclusive, accessible social behaviour change: what it is and how to do it

“In Ghana, the work we began on disability inclusion will continue”

How we’re championing mental health and human rights in Ghana

Why disability-inclusive employment benefits all of us

Why disability rights are integral to the Sustainable Development Goals

Sightsavers partnership aims to improve inclusion in hospitality

How we’re transforming political participation in Cameroon and Senegal

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame elected chair of UN disability committee

Senegal launches action plan to collect high-quality inclusive data

Sightsavers wins Zero Project award for work on political participation

A parliamentary caucus on disability issues in Ghana is possible!

We are… promoting inclusive elections

We are… training young people with disabilities

We are… creating inclusive eye health services

We are… ensuring pre-schools are inclusive

Sightsavers launches campaign to ratify African disability rights treaty