DHRC is a national disabled people’s organization formed in 2000 to promote the rights of all disabled people: political, social, legal and economic. Our partnership began in 2007 with a 5-year Advocacy for Change project, raising awareness and generating evidence to ensure that Nepal’s new constitution included disabled people’s rights in accordance with the UN Convention.
DHRC has continued in its advocacy role and offers legal services for disabled people who are subject to any kind of abuse, discrimination or cheated of their inheritance. With DDP’s support, DHRC moved into direct work to alleviate poverty among disabled people and their families and management of a programme of work requiring the training, monitoring and capacity building of local partners.
DHRC has been instrumental in helping DDP establish partnerships with other Nepalese NGOs and DPOs working with such ‘invisible’ disabilities such as mental illness and deafness, and to support the inclusion of disabled women and girls.
Through its Disability Voice TV and radio programmes and magazine, DHRC has an important role in raising awareness of disability issues in the national media, with inclusive employment a major focus in 2022-2025.
DHRC has coordinated large livelihoods projects with DDP and other Nepalese DPOs: the UK-Aid-funded Women-led, Disability-Inclusive Livelihoods programme (2018-2021), and the USAIDÂ Inclusive Livelihoods – Central activity (2022-2025). Our current project is for Disability Inclusion and Self-Advocacy through community media development.