Socio-Economic Rights and Livelihoods for PWPD

Leonard Cheshire (LC) which is a UK registered charity that works globally in the field of Disability and Inclusive Development received funding from Big Lottery Fund to deliver a 2 year project (Aug 2018-July 2020) entitled ‘Increasing access to waged employment for Persons with Disabilities in Kampala’. This project is implemented by Cheshire Services Uganda in collaboration with a consortium of…

With support from our Danish partners Dansk Handicap For bund (DHF) and Para-sport Denmark (PD), UNAPD secured funds to implement a two-year project titled “Building Strategic Alliance for Disability Rights in Uganda” which will focus on three thematic areas and Livelihoods being one of them. The project is to use a strategy of building a broad coalition of…

UNAPD in partnership with International Aid Services Uganda are implementing a project aimed eliminating barriers to Inclusive vocational skilling opportunities among Persons with Special Needs (PSNs) in Rhino Camp refugee settlement. The goal of the six months project is to contribute to improved lives, promote social and economic inclusion of vulnerable refugees, and host communities in Rhino camp settlement. The…

2018 – 2019 supported by Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA) According to the Local Government Act (as amended in 2010), PWDs and other marginalized groups in Uganda have to be represented at all levels of local government beginning from the L.C 1 committees, up to the district councils to have a clear platform of discussion of issues affecting them/or…