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AbleChildAfrica

AbleChildAfrica is unique in that we work exclusively with and for children with disabilities and their families in Africa, and are the leading UK charity to do so. The children we work with are some of the world’s most vulnerable.

Our Mission is to promote the realisation of equal rights for children with disabilities and their families in Africa and to facilitate their meaningful inclusion in all aspects of life. This is achieved by working in partnership with locally registered and independent African organisations to provide direct services such as health and education, as well as by engaging in advocacy and influencing work in the UK and internationally.

Our Vision is a world in which all children with disabilities are fully included as equal members of society and are able to achieve their full potential.

Read more: http://www.ablechildafrica.org/


Women and Girls with Disabilities Updates Progress

Commitment year: 2018

We will deliver a programme that focus of access to reproductive health and WASH education for 245 girls with disabilities in Rwanda.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: We will reach our target by June 2021 and will do this through working with parents, young women with disability mentors, government, community and girls themselves. We will use evidence collated to seek meaningful commitments to financing inclusive reproductive health education and WASH for girls with disabilities in Rwanda.

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Update in 2020
The project is successfully underway, and is well on its way to meet its targets in June 2021. To date, we have helped 192 girls with disabilities to access reproductive health and WASH education, including regular individual mentoring sessions from older women with disabilities and group health clubs. The school health clubs also include girls without disabilities which promotes integration, and helps them to better understand and advocate for the reproductive health and WASH rights of people with disabilities. ...

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Data Disaggregation Updates Progress

Commitment year: 2018

Commit to use the Washington Group questions
We will disaggregate all new data collected in new grants and projects using the Washington Group Short Set Questions and work with implementing partners to make this contextually viable through trainings and workshops.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: From January 2018 any project we apply for and implement will include the Washington Group Short Set Questions in any evaluation frameworks that are designed.

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Update in 2020
Able Child Africa has committed to disaggregating all data in all new projects since January 2018. This includes data on both primary and secondary beneficiaries, with data disaggregated by gender and disability type as standard, as well as by more project-specific data in all project evaluation frameworks. For example, data will usually be disaggregated by gender, age, impairment type and disability according to Washington Group Short Set Questions but may also be disaggregated by family type (ie. single-parent ...

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Inclusive Education Updates Progress

Commitment year: 2018

Capacity Building: Teachers and Staff
We will implement child-to-child inclusive education interventions to enrol over 950 children with disabilities into mainstream government schools across Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya. 

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: We will reach this target by July 2018 and will do this through working with parents, teachers, government, community and crucially children themselves. We will not only advocate for systemic attitude change among civil society towards inclusive education but seek meaningful commitments to financing inclusive education aligning with national policies relating to inclusive education in the countries we work in. We will put young people and children at the forefront of our work and approach.

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Update in 2020
Able Child Africa have successfully achieved and have now surpassed this commitment. In Tanzania, one project has successfully enrolled 340 children with disabilities into schools; while another project in Uganda enrolled 388 children with disabilities in its latest project year (bringing total enrolment figures for this project to 1716). Despite hitting targets set for 2018, Able Child Africa continues to utilise this proven methodology to surpass these targets and embed this approach in new and ongoing ...

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