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Dear ,
We are delighted to connect with you through this newsletter. As the two new International Directors of Light for the World, we are eager to learn from and engage with you and your organisations – and continue fostering our shared commitment.
We believe that nurturing the next generation is central to achieving our mission and are delighted that this edition of the newsletter features insightful reads focused on children and young people. Additionally, you will find sections dedicated to upcoming events, training and funding opportunities, and noteworthy web highlights.
Our newsletter is designed to enable active exchange. We encourage you to share exciting news and updates with us so we can feature them in future editions. Please also feel free to forward this newsletter to others who may find it useful, and invite them to subscribe.
We look forward to meeting you, learning more about your work, collaborating closely and sparking lasting change for disability rights and eye health.
Best regards,
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Katri Bertram
International Director of Impact & Advocacy
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With 20 years’ spent in building and strengthening international development and health partnerships, Katri brings in vast experience to enhance Light for the World’s strategy to harness the power of inclusive partnerships for enhanced impact, and more equity and inclusion.
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Lucy Nyaga
International Director of Programmes
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Lucy has 22 years’ experience managing a wide variety of integrated health and development programmes across East and Southern Africa. She is passionate about making a lasting positive change in the lives of the most marginalised and vulnerable people — in particular people with disabilities, especially women, girls and the youth.
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Toolkit: social and behaviour change to address stigma and discrimination towards children and youth with disabilities
UNICEF developed a toolkit consisting of eight modules to tackle social norms and behaviours that constitute barriers to the inclusion of children and youth with disabilities. The toolkit offers practical support to a range of stakeholders for designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating social and behaviour change interventions. Learn more and download the different modules.
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Report: engaging young people with disabilities in decision-making |
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The latest report in the “Believe in Better” series of the Youth 2030 initiative maps the global prevalence and key socio-demographic characteristics of young people with disabilities based on data from 46 countries (including Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Sudan and Cambodia). It analyses how young people with disabilities contribute to decision-making processes, what challenges and barriers to participation they face and how these can be overcome to ensure meaningful engagement. Access the full report.
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Interview: championing child eye health – a vision for the future |
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Questionnaire: improving the collection of disability data of school-aged children
UNICEF and the Washington Group on Disability Statistics released a Teacher Version of the Child Functioning Module to take advantage of school-based data collections. The questionnaire consists of 20 questions and is designed to identify difficulties in a number of functional domains such as seeing, hearing, mobility fine motor skills, communication, controlling behaviour, relationships, and affect (anxiety and depression). You can access the teacher version here and an additional module with questions on inclusive education.
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Events & initiatives |
23 August 2024: Submission on draft general comment No. 27 in children’s rights
The Committee on the Right of the Child is drafting general comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and effective remedies and is seeking contributions from interested stakeholders to clarify terms, approaches an actions States should take. Review the call for submissions and submit your input by 23 August.
1-5 September 2024: African Conference on Disability |
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The African Disability Forum (ADF)
will organise a conference to discuss “Persons with Disabilities in a Post-pandemic World: Redefining Inclusive Development & Humanitarian Agenda in Africa” from September 1-5 in Nairobi. The conference will bring together approximately 200 participants from governments, UN agencies, international organisations, the private sector, and civil society organisations, including Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs). The aim is to collectively outline the priority issues for disability inclusion in Africa and develop an action plan to address the current gaps. If you want to learn more, please contact Shitaye Asatwes (ADF’s Director for Advocacy and Communications) via email sastawes@adf-secretariat.org.
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9-13 September 2024: 7th CBR/CBID Africa Conference
This year’s CBR/CBID Africa Conference will be held in Entebbe under the theme of “Advancing Community Based Rehabilitation / Community Based Inclusive Development for a Disability Inclusive Society”. Attendance both online and in-person is possible. More than 50 speakers will present more than 70 workshops. To find out more visit https://afri-can.org/7thconference/ (select preferred language options in right upper corner of the site) and register here.
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23-25 September 2024: World Congress on Rehabilitation |
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Training opportunities
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Ethical storytelling
This platform is all about helping a community of non-profit practitioners and storytellers to learn and grow together. It offers a wealth of resources on ethical storytelling, including free online courses and samples of child protection policies and media consent forms.
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Aga Khan Foundation’s Learning Hub
The Learning Hub is home to the Aga Khan Foundation’s best practices aimed at strengthening development practitioners and empowering communities. The platform provides free access to videos, webinars and learning courses on agriculture and food security, civil society strengthening, climate resilience, early childhood development, education, health and nutrition, and work and enterprise in more than 20 different languages. Browse through the learning catalogue and sign up.
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Funding opportunities
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UN Young Talent Pipeline
The second phase of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Young Talent Pipeline aims to engage young talented individuals to become future leaders across environment, pollution and climate action. This joint partnership initiative between UNEP and UNV has a twin objective:
To deploy the second cohort of 13 young talented individuals in areas related to UNEP's mandate.
To seek candidates from Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.
If you are 33 years of age or younger, check out the employment opportunities here. Women and individuals from marginalized groups are especially encouraged to apply. Deadline for applications is 8 August 2024.
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Disability Justice Fund for Women |
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ADD International launched a new participatory fund for local organisations in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda. The fund has been designed by a team of women disability activists and aims to support the African Disability Protocol (ADP) and strengthening movements of women with disabilities. Find out how to apply.
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How to report on disability: 6 tips for journalists |
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