DDP project partners are committed and passionate organizations working with and for disabled people.
Each partner is unique in what they know and understand of disabled people and vulnerable groups, their needs and challenges. We support our partners by developing programmes together, finding the funding and by helping to put in place sound management, monitoring and financial systems, all of which strengthens the sense of ownership.
Partners are the lynchpin of DDP because without them we will not exist. We have worked with 22 partners, and our current partnerships are in Burundi, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique, Nepal and in the UK. Past partnerships have taken us to Angola, Bangladesh, and Cape Verde.
Partnership is a two-way and evolving process that brings with it mutual responsibilities and learning opportunities. Our partners share with us their particular circumstances and the problems they want to tackle, while we bring more than 20 years’ experience to supporting these aspirations.
Rainbow Disability Nepal
Rainbow Disability Nepal is a powerful advocate for a marginalized community often overlooked in development efforts: LGBTQI+ persons with disabilities.
GMSP
Gramin Mahila Srijansil Pariwar (GMSP) is a women-led, women-focused NGO founded in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk District in 1993. Their objective is to prevent the trafficking of women and girls, prevent gender-based violence, and promote development programmes for women.
AJODEMO
Associação dos Jovens Deficientes de Moçambique, the national disabled youth association, works to prevent the marginalization and exclusion of disabled young people from educational and employment opportunities.
ACPDH Burundi
ACPDH is a community-based human rights association dedicated to the promotion and protection of universal human rights. They provide advice and support to people that have faced discrimination, injustice and displacement.
Deaf Development and Information Association
DDIA is a Deaf-led Ethiopian NGO that aims to improve the lives of young deaf people through education, training, information, awareness, Sign Language and support.
Social Development and Education Trust
The Social Development and Education Trust (SDET), in Virudhunagar District in Tamil Nadu, provides academic and vocational education for children and young people with special educational needs resulting from learning and physical disabilities.
KOSHISH
KOSHISH means ‘making an effort’, and is the first mental health self-help organization in Nepal fighting to improve mental health policy, quality of care, and to challenge prejudice and discrimination suffered by people affected by mental illness.
SHRUTI
SHRUTI (National Association of the Hard of Hearing and Deafened, Nepal) is a pioneering organization focused on addressing the issues of HoH and Deafened people all over the country.
Disabled Human Rights Centre, Nepal
DHRC is a national disabled people’s organization formed in 2000 to promote the political, social, legal and economic rights of all disabled people.
Berhan Lehetsanat
Berhan Lehetsanat (‘Light for Children’) is an Ethiopian NGO based in Addis Ababa. Their work is primarily with disabled children and focuses on education, health and livelihoods using a community-based development approach.
People
Gunaraj and Govinda
Schoolfriends who became respected disability activists and founded the Disabled Welfare Association in Nepal.
Rahel
Participant and cafe proprietor in our project ‘Improving Income for Deaf People’ with DDIA in Ethiopia.
Raju
Active community mobilizer in Nepal supporting many other disabled people into self-help groups and livelihood activities.