SA-CIBIS: Capacity and Institutional Building Many organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in Southern Africa struggle to sustain themselves. Donor funding has been shrinking for years. Staff capacity is thin. Governance structures are often weak. Without a strong foundation, OPDs cannot advocate, deliver programmes, or hold governments to account. SA-CIBIS was designed to address this.…

SA-IPLJ: Inclusive Policies, Legislation and Justice Across Southern Africa, disability rights are often written into law — but rarely enforced. Most SADC member states have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Many have national disability policies. Yet in practice, persons with disabilities remain excluded from the systems and services…

SA-DRDLC: Disability Research, Documentation and Learning SA-DRDLC: Disability Research, Documentation and Learning Good advocacy needs good evidence. Without data, it is hard to make the case for change. Without documented lessons, the same mistakes get repeated. SA-DRDLC exists to fill that gap — building the knowledge base that SAFOD and its affiliates need to push…

SA-PIAH: Inclusive Access to Health Care For most people, going to a clinic or hospital is straightforward. For many persons with disabilities across Southern Africa, it is not. Health facilities are often physically out of reach. Buildings lack ramps or accessible toilets. Staff are not trained to communicate with deaf patients or those with cognitive…

SA-DEEP: Disability Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Persons with disabilities face some of the highest rates of poverty in Southern Africa. Discrimination shuts them out of formal employment. Inaccessible workplaces, limited skills training, and no access to credit or markets make self-employment just as hard. For women and youth with disabilities, those barriers are even sharper.…

SA-DGMP: Disability and Gender Mainstreaming Women and girls with disabilities face a double burden. They are excluded because of their disability. They are also excluded because of their gender. Together, those two layers of discrimination shut them out of decisions that affect their lives — in their homes, their communities, and the policy spaces where…

SA-IEP: Inclusive Education Education is the foundation for everything else. Without it, children with disabilities grow up with fewer options, less voice, and less power to shape their own lives. Yet across Southern Africa, millions of learners with disabilities are still being failed by education systems that were not built with them in mind. Schools…

SA-CYD: Children and Youth with Disabilities Children and young people with disabilities are among the most excluded in Southern Africa. They are kept out of schools, left out of health services, and rarely consulted on decisions that directly affect their lives. In policy spaces — where those decisions get made — their voices are almost…