How do we ensure the inclusion of persons with #disabilities in the Summit of the Future processes & beyond?

Elizabeth Lockwood, on behalf of the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities for Sustainable Development, shares several recommendations: sdg.iisd.org/commentary/gue…?

Sarah Moon, Safeguarding Manager of CBM Global, talks about working with organisations of persons with disabilities to ensure disability inclusive safeguarding standards are at the front and centre of our work.

Read her blog 👇 cbm-global.org/blog/disabilit…

As discussions on the Pact for the Future begin, it's evident that the inclusion of persons with disabilities is dwindling. With 1.3 billion people worldwide facing systemic exclusion, advocating for their rights is crucial.

Read Elizabeth Lockwood's blog sdg.iisd.org/commentary/gue…

Important read by CBM Global Disability Inclusion colleague @lockwoodEM. Despite progress within 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the inclusion of persons with disabilities and representative organisations regressed: No references in zero draft of Pact of the Future? sdg.iisd.org/commentary/gue…

Today, stakeholders of the CiSKuLA project underwent training on WASH, focusing on educating them about activities and best practices to maintain project progress and aid NTDs affected individuals with disabilities and their communities.

A team from CBM Global Disability Inclusion - KE is currently delivering a training on inclusive Project Cycle Management #iPCM to our team Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya. The goal is to enable our team to fully understand iPCM and apply it in different scenarios of our projects.

Happening on 30 April: 'The Elimination of Trachoma: Past, present and future' - A Seminar by Dr Danny Haddad, CBM Global Disability Inclusion Inclusive Eye Health & Neglected Tropical Diseases Director

⌚ 5-6 PM BST
📷 In-person & online
Learn more:
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-eli…

Happening on 30 April: 'The Elimination of Trachoma: Past, present and future' - A Seminar by Dr Danny Haddad, CBM Global Inclusive Eye Health & Neglected Tropical Diseases Director

⌚ 5-6 PM BST
📍 In-person & online

Learn more: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-eli…

José Viera International Disability Alliance (IDA) & Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities sharing examples of data advocacy led by persons with #disabilities in sustainable development, including organizations of persons with disabilities leading citizen-generated #data efforts in the Leveraging Citizen Data for UN 2.0

Was a great pleasure to co-edit this Supplement on #MentalHealth and #NTDs with Laura Dean LSTM and to publish so many great papers. I commend it to you. Thanks to all who came along to the launch London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Standing on the shoulders of many giants today…predominantly people affected by #NTDs and #mentalhealth conditions to launch our supplement with Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. A privilege to work with Julian Eaton and many others on consolidating this important knowledge base! LSTM

A really helpful word cloud shared by ​​Professor David Molyneux, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, LSTM in his keynote speech on the effects of NTDs and Mental Health and new London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine research launched on importance of holistic person centred approaches London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine CBM Global Disability Inclusion LSTM Professor David Molyneux explores the future priority areas in NTDs

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine CBM Global Disability Inclusion Next we are hearing from Dr David Molyneux, emeritus professor at LSTM, who is delivering the keynote speech and outlining the hard work of the authors involved

#beatntds #mentalhealth #globalhealth