Advocacy and Policy Influence

Our work in this area covers our efforts to address attitudinal and systemic barriers through:

Engaging policymakers to influence education, gender and inclusion agendas

Online awareness campaigns

Children’s book publications

Primary school reading programmes.

Capacity Strengthening

This area covers our efforts to support the competency of schools, educators, policymakers, practitioners and families towards meeting the needs of children with developmental disabilities. It also includes initiatives to help mothers of children with disabilities improve their well-being and economic participation. We do this through:

Convening multi-stakeholder gatherings

Train the trainer

Equipping parents and educators series.

Research

This area covers our efforts to conduct meaningful and ethical research using robust and context-sensitive methodologies. We conduct:

Policy reviews

Pilot studies

Other research to generate evidence and document innovative approaches and lived experiences

Research evidence dissemination.