HUB Cymru Africa 2015

Disability Inclusive Development3rd December 2015

Who we are

A partnership of • Welsh Centre for International Affairs • Wales Council for Voluntary Action • Fair Trade Wales • Sub Sahara Advisory Panel • Wales for Africa Health Links Network

Funded by the WG Wales for Africa programme

What we do

Strengthen the capacity of the Wales Africa and Fair trade community to contribute to

‘a globally responsible Wales’

What we deliver…

Training, networking and events

Project advice

Communications

Cold hard cash!

Grants

£180,000 total pot for 2015 £50,000 ring-fenced for health activities

All activities should have ‘benefit to Wales’ (Welsh Government)

Funding Focus Sustainable livelihoods

• Promoting realistic and sustainable livelihood opportunities for communities and groups, ensuring that the most marginalised are included

Healthy communities

• Promoting and protecting the mental and physical health and wellbeing of communities

Climate change and environment

• Protecting the natural world for future generations

Life long learning

• Supporting individuals and groups to gain skills and knowledge for the benefit of their communities

The Challenge

• Disability engagement often patchy• Often based around services rather than

advocacy and rights promotion• Few disabled people involved in the sector

generally; this is replicated in Wales.• Disabled people are needed to promote

disability engagement• Solidarity between disabled people in Wales

and Africa

Disability Prevention

Interburns• Specialist support in Ghana from a network of

professional burns specialists

Hayaat Women• Mental health work in Somaliland

Disability Response

Shine Cymru• Nigeria Child Rights Act 2003• Spina Bifida

Hazina Powys • Community based care for disabled children in Tanzania • School linking to Tanzania

Plus DWA and others… - dowe need this see new slides

AND…

Disability engagement in Wales

• Re-enforcing the work of DWA• Ensuring disability voices are heard • Ensuring our sector is truly diverse

Disability isn’t a barrier to international work! ( Just ask Paul )

The DWA Declaration

"Disability in Wales and Africa (DWA) has a vision of societies where disabled people are full, equal, and participatory members of their community in Wales, and particularly in Africa…. In the past the needs of disabled people, and their families, have often been sidelined within mainstream development, with actors believing it to be a specialist, standalone, issue. DWA believes that disability should be part of every development initiative.

Therefore, Wales Africa Sector activists are invited to sign a pledge to explore, and implement, ways in which this aim can be achieved."