A list of regional communities of practice, networks, disability-inclusive organizations and knowledge portals.
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Assistive Technology for Education
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The Atlas Alliance is an umbrella organisation consisting of Norwegian organisations of people with disabilities, parents and patients that are involved in international work. Since 1981 the Atlas Alliance has supported projects for people with disabilities in countries in the South.
Cambridge Network for Disability and Education Research (CaNDER)
Cambridge Network for Disability and Education Research (CaNDER) is a research network committed to generating rigorous scholarship in the field of disability and education. It has its genesis in the shared interests and common goals of researchers at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
Childhood Education International
Our mission is to develop and amplify innovative solutions to significant education challenges worldwide.e.
CIES Special Interest Group 'Inclusive Education'
The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Inc. seeks to contribute to an understanding of education through encouragement and promotion of comparative education and related areas of inquiry and activity.
Commonwealth Children and Youth Disability Network
The Commonwealth Children and Youth Disability Network (CCYDN) is a disabled youth led network (including those who work with, or have set up, DPOs or NGOs working with children and young people with disabilities) whose mission is to strengthen the voices of children and young people with disabilities throughout the Commonwealth, via increasing awareness of their Rights and supporting their Participation and Inclusion.
Education Cannot Wait is a global fund to transform the delivery of education in emergencies. The fund aims to reach all crisis-affected children and youth with safe, free and quality education by 2030.
Education Development Trust works collaboratively with national and local governments, schools and other partners from around the world to design and deliver sustainable solutions to improve education and transform lives.
USAID’s EducationLinks is a resource for all education practitioners to learn and share knowledge to create and implement successful, effective education and skills development programs.
USAID’s EducationLinks is a resource for all education practitioners to learn and share knowledge to create and implement successful, effective education and skills development programs.
Accessible digital content for inclusive and quality education Since our founding in 2012, eKitabu has lowered the cost of delivering accessible content for quality education in local languages through our open architecture, global collection of digital content, and ecosystem partners.
Enabling Education Network (EENET) is a global information sharing and learning network. EENET encourages and supports innovation and critical thinking on inclusion, equity and rights in education.
Equity Education Research Initiative
Launched in March 2016, the Education Equity Research Initiative is a vital forum for generating evidence around equity in education programs and policies. The goal of the Equity Initiative is to advance the field of global education towards equity-oriented education policy and programming.
Face Equality International is an alliance of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), charities and support groups which are working at national, regional or international levels to promote the campaign for ‘face equality’. We aim to improve the life prospects of any person anywhere in the world who has a facial difference or disfigurement, an unusual-looking, scarred or asymmetrical face (or body) from any cause.
The Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network is a coordination body of bilateral and multilateral donors and agencies, the private sector and foundations working to enhance the inclusion of persons with disabilities in international development and humanitarian action.
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a civil society movement that promotes and defends education as a basic human right. We campaign and advocate at the international, regional and national level to put pressure on governments and the international community to deliver the right of everyone to a free, quality, public education.
The Global Education Cluster supports Country Clusters and Working Groups to work towards a predictable, holistic, equitable and well-coordinated response by providing direct and remote field support, developing guidance, building evidence, strengthening capacities and advocating for the continued prioritization of education, to meet growing education needs of crisis affected children and youth.
Global Partnership for Children with disabilities
TheGlobal Partnership for Children with disabilities (GPcwd) provides a platform for collective action and advocacy to ensure that the rights of children with disabilities are included in and prioritized by both the disability and child rights agendas at the global, regional, and country levels.
Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
The Global Partnership fo Education (GPE) is the largest global fund solely dedicated to transforming education in lower-income countries, and a unique, multi-stakeholder partnership. We work to deliver quality education so that every girl and boy can have hope, opportunity and agency.
HI is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.
Inclusion Matters by Shane’s Inspiration
Inclusion Matters by Shane’s Inspiration has grown into a powerful worldwide network of inclusive, sensory- and literacy-rich playgrounds with more on the way. Our mission has taken us to Mexico, Israel, Canada, Ecuador, Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Armenia, the Dominican Republic and beyond.
Inclusive Development Partners
Inclusive Development Partners (IDP) is a unique, women-owned, private advisory organization that leverages unparalleled expertise in the field of disability rights to achieve policies, practices, and programs in corporate, governmental, and civil society sectors that ensure that international development and humanitarian aid and government services reach all members of society.
Inter-agency Network for Education In Emergencies
The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open, global network of members working together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure that all individuals have the right to a quality, safe, relevant, and equitable education.
International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment
The International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) is the world’s major association of individuals and organisations concerned with equality of access to appropriate education for children and youth with vision impairment.
International Disability Alliance
The International Disability Alliance (IDA) is an alliance of networks. IDA brings together over 1,100 organisations of persons with disabilities and their families from across eight global and six regional networks.
International Disability and Development Consortium
The International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) is a grouping of civil society organisations coming together around a common objective: promoting inclusive international development and humanitarian action with a special focus on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights by all people with disabilities.
International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO
The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET) is committed to promoting and strengthening international education and development for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and other differences. Through its membership UKFIET constitutes a body of professional expertise that serves as a resource to policy-makers in multi-lateral, government, and non-government organisations, and to other institutions and agencies.
US International Council for Disabilities
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO is the only specialized organization with the mandate to support educational policy, planning and management. IIEP helps strengthen the capacity of countries to plan and manage their education systems for a more equal and sustainable future.
Leonard Cheshire is a charity supporting individuals to live, learn and work as independently as they choose, whatever their ability.
Light for the World is a global disability & development organization, breaking down barriers to enrich society and unlock the potential in all of us. We enable crucial eye health services and empower people with disabilities in some of the poorest regions of the world.
Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies (The Partnership) is the only U.S. disability-led 501(c)3 nonprofit with a focused mission on equal access, disability rights and full inclusion of people with disabilities, older adults, and people with access and functional needs before, during, and after disasters and emergencies.
We are global leaders in the education of children with visual impairment and multiple disabilities, including deafblindness. Our mission is to ensure that all underserved children and young adults with visual impairment receive a high-quality education that enriches their lives and prepares them for an active role in their families, schools and communities.
The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre pioneers research into overcoming barriers to education, such as poverty, gender, ethnicity, language and disability, and promotes education as an engine for inclusive growth and sustainable development.
Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre
The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre pioneers research into overcoming barriers to education, such as poverty, gender, ethnicity, language and disability, and promotes education as an engine for inclusive growth and sustainable development.
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future.
Sightsavers works in more than 30 countries worldwide, focusing on Africa and Asia. We work with local, regional, national and international partners and governments. With their help, we distribute treatments to prevent disease, carry out eye operations, advocate for disability rights and improve health services to create sustainable development projects
Teach For All is a network of 58 independent, locally led and governed partner organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate the network's progress.
The Education Commission is a global initiative encouraging greater progress on Sustainable Development Goal 4 – ensuring inclusive and quality education and promoting lifelong learning for all. The Commission is helping to create a pathway for reform and increased investment in education by mobilizing strong evidence and analysis while engaging with world leaders, policymakers, and researchers.
The Education for All Coalition (EFAC)
The Education for All Coalition (EFAC) is a network of organizations and individuals dedicated to creating education opportunities nationally and internationally for displaced and marginalized children.
UKFIET - The Education and Development Forum
The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET) is committed to promoting and strengthening international education and development for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and other differences. Through its membership UKFIET constitutes a body of professional expertise that serves as a resource to policy-makers in multi-lateral, government, and non-government organisations, and to other institutions and agencies.
Every child has the right to grow up in a safe and inclusive environment UNICEF works with partners around the world to promote policies and expand access to services that protect all children.
US International Council for Disabilities
The US International Council for disabilities is a non-profit, membership organization that works to build bridges between American and international disability communities and cultures. USICD's mission is to promote the rights and full participation of persons with disabilities through global engagement and United States foreign affairs.
The World Blind Union (WBU) is the global organization representing the estimated 253 million persons who are blind or partially sighted worldwide. Members are organizations of and for the blind in 190 countries, as well as international organizations working in the field of vision impairment.
The major objective of the WG is to provide information on disability that is comparable throughout the world.
World Inequality Database on education
The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) highlights the powerful influence of circumstances, such as wealth, gender, ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but which play an important role in shaping their opportunities for education and life. It draws attention to unacceptable levels of education inequality across countries and between groups within countries, with the aim of helping to inform policy design and public debate.
It is a platform where the most innovative and effective solutions to problems that persons with disabilities face, are shared. Its mission is to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) and to work for a world without barriers.
We partner with disability activists in Africa and Asia to help them access the tools, resources and support they need to build powerful movements for change.
Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation
The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation is committed to understanding autism from a scientific perspective, increasing opportunities and services available to the autism community and educating the public about autism. In pursuit of its mission, the Foundation develops and provides grants to programs in research, clinical care, policy, advocacy and education.
CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world.
Africa
The Action Foundation (TAF) is an award winning, youth-led organization that works with communities, organizations, local and national government bodies to end exclusion, discrimination and violence towards children, women and girls with disabilities in marginalized areas.
AbleChild Africa works with local partners to protect, educate and empower children with disabilities so they are able to fulfil their potential.
Arthur’s Dream Autism Trust (ADAT FOUNDATION) exists to provide solutions for families of people living with disabilities. Our purpose is to aide parents in getting a timely diagnosis for their children, connect with the right schools and establish a support mechanism for parents of children living with various disabilities.
The Africa Educational Trust (AET) works for education for all in the face of conflict and poverty.
African Disability Forum
African Disability Forum (ADF) is the membership organization of organizations of persons with disabilities in Africa.
At Backup Uganda, we believe that access to education is crucial, but not enough. Every child has unique learning needs that can and should be met. That is why we equip all stakeholders in Uganda’s education sector with the knowledge and the skills they need to make this happen.
CAMFED is a pan-African movement revolutionizing how girls’ education is delivered. Through a gold-standard system of accountability to the young people and communities we serve, we have created a model that radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women.
Disability Africa
Disability Africa is working with disabled children and young people, their families and local organisations in The Gambia, Zambia, Kenya, and Sierra Leone to create inclusive communities, where no-one is left behind.
Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)
ECDD works collaboratively with other organizations to promote and facilitate “disability inclusive development” in Ethiopia – the inclusion of disability issues and persons with disabilities in mainstream government and non-governmental service delivery and development programs.
Feed the Minds runs practical education projects to help women and vulnerable people living in some of the world’s poorest and most marginalised communities.
We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.
Inclusive Education South Africa
Inclusive Education South Africa is a registered NPO that has, since 1995, been committed to promoting and supporting positive models of inclusive education in schools, preschools and other centres of learning in South Africa. Our mission is to ensure that families, educators and service-providers of children experiencing barriers to learning have access to information, and are introduced to support networks and services that can facilitate inclusion into ordinary neighbourhood schools.
Le Programme Handicap Et Developpement Inclusif
The vision of this program is "an open world in which children and young people with disabilities should have equal opportunities to realize their personal potential."
Nest of Joy is an Education and Rights advocacy organization for out of school children and young adults. We purposely seek out the hidden, forgotten and ignored victims of circumstances and operate in areas where our resources can be most beneficial.
Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD)
We are a leading disability-focused network engaged in coordination of activities of organisations of Persons with Disabilities in the Southern Africa region. The organisation was formed in 1986 as a federation of Disabiled Peoples Organisations (DPOs) currently working in ten (10) countries, namely Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Bina Foundation for People with Special Needs
Bina Foundation for People with Special Needs is a non-profit Organization that works for improved personal development, economic empowerment, social inclusion and human rights of people with special needs in Nigeria.
Buikwe Disabled and Vulnerable Empowerment Association [BUDIVEA]
BUDIVEA is a community based organization founded in 2016 by women with disabilities in rural communities of Buikwe District. We target girls and women with disabilities, older women and disabled LGBT that are living around Lake Victoria shores.
Down Syndrome Society of Kenya
DSSK is a non- profit disabled persons Organisation working for the rights and welfare of persons living with Down syndrome. It was registered in 2003 under the Society’s Act and in 2013 with National Council for persons with Disability (NCPWD), Kenya. It was successfully launched on 6th March 2004 with an overwhelming support from both the private and corporate world. A support we yearn to nurture and maintain.
BUDIVEA is a community based organization founded in 2016 by women with disabilities in rural communities of Buikwe District. We target girls and women with disabilities, older women and disabled LGBT that are living around Lake Victoria shores.
East Asia & Pacific
Community Mental Health Australia
Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA) is a coalition of the eight peak community mental health organisations from each State and Territory and was established to provide leadership and direction to promote the importance and benefits of community mental health and recovery services across Australia.
Europe & Central Asia
Validity was established in 2002 as a legal advocacy organisation to tackle the generations of isolation, segregation and exclusion faced by people with mental disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe. Originally named the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC), today Validity is a thriving network of practitioners, volunteers and partner organisations providing specialist legal support to the disability rights movements in Europe and Africa.
Latin America & Caribbean
Red Regional por la Educación Inclusiva
La Red Regional por la Educación Inclusiva—Latinoamérica, RREI, is a coalition of organizations of and for people with disabilities, family members, and human rights from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. We work for the right of people with disabilities to receive inclusive education in a school for all.
The Latin American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations of Persons With Disabilities and their Families.
Sociedad y Discapacidad (SODIS)
Our mission is to promote compliance with the rights of people with disabilities in Peru through their active participation as citizens.
Barbados Council for the Disabled
Barbados Council for the Disabled is the non governmental umbrella body partnering with all sectors of the community and International Agencies to effect change and champion the rights of all persons with disabilities, ensuring their full and effective integration into society./p>
Middle East & North Africa
LEAPS Center is a learning support center that offers services to learners who have difficulties as well as gifted and talented needs. Services are preventive, corrective, and accelerated. LEAPS Center aims to holistically develop students’ skills to help reach their utmost potential through the LEAPS Center approach.
Association Des Parents & Malades Spina Bifida - Bejaia
The association receives parents of Spina Bifida patients on a daily basis. The headquarters of the association is both a space for the exchange of experiences between the parents of patients and a refuge for those in need of support.
South Asia
Promoting sustainable development, greater economic and social equity and justice by promoting mutual understanding through dialogue and shared experiences among various sections of the society and to reflect social issues and people’s concerns in the marginalized segments of society.
Karachi Down Syndrome Program (KDSP)
The Karachi Down Syndrome Program (KDSP), a non-profit organization, was launched in March 2014 by a group of affected parents and passionate individuals who, due to limited support and resources available locally, realized a need for a platform of those affected by Down syndrome.
Raised Lines Foundation is a not for profit, Section 8 company incubated out of IIT Delhi. We started our work 4 years ago under Centre of Excellence in Tactile Graphics (CoETG), established at IIT Delhi, with an objective of developing end to end solutions for the development of tactile diagrams in affordable and scalable manner.
Women with Disabilities Development Foundation
To strengthen national advocacy by women with disabilities through the organizational platform of Women with Disabilities Development Foundation, using the CRPD as a primary tool. The project will carry out advocacy to ensure greater recognition and inclusion of women with disabilities in the implementation of the new Disability Rights and Protection Act 2013.