The CDPF represents Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) / Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) from across the 56 countries of the Commonwealth. At present CDPF have 95 member organisations in 50 Commonwealth countries.
While 60% of the population of the Commonwealth are under the age of 30, nearly all the leaders of our disability organisations are over 30 years. We urgently need to develop and recruit many more disabled youth leaders to the leadership of the Commonwealth’s Disability Movement.
The Executive Committee has decided as part of CDPF’s contribution to Commonwealth Year of Youth (YoY), to recruit young disabled people (aged 30 or under) to take part in a 6 module on-line leadership training course. Modules will cover Social Model/Human Rights Perspective, Organising the Struggle for Rights, Ensuring Equality, DPO Democracy, Funding and Project Management, Maximising Impact on Public and Government. Each module will cover essential knowledge and ways of taking forward our struggle for meaningful realisation of disability rights.
Our task is to get our Governments and Societies to fully implement Disabled People’s Equality and Rights.
We are keen to recruit participants representing the full range of impairments and intend to provide access in sign language, captioning, easy read and audio description. The course and its materials will be in English.
Each module will cover essential knowledge and ways of taking forward our struggle for meaningful realisation of disability rights.
The course will run with a module each month from September 2023 to February 2024. Each module will consist of an online presentation, background reading materials & activities and an interactive seminar. There will also be an on line application for participants to interact.
Those applying must commit to complete the 6 modules and must undertake private study of our 14 module 2021 online Disability Equality course prior to the start of the course. It’s available at www.commonwealthdpf/training