CDPF Disabled Youth Leadership Course 2023/24
The purpose of the course is to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding amongst young disabled people in the Commonwealth, so they feel able to and wish to play a leadership role in Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs / OPDs).
We would like to welcome all of you onto the first Module of the CDPF Disabled Youth Leadership Course. We are running this course from now to the end of March 2024 as our contribution to Commonwealth Year of Youth. There are around 150 of you who have been selected because you are interested in becoming leaders of the Disabled People’s Movement. We have developed this course because as the umbrella organisation representing over 90 DPOs across 50 Commonwealth countries we are aware of the age gap between the current leaders and the 60% of the Commonwealth population under 30. We will be holding seminars with those leaders to explore ways of making their DPOs more representative.
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CDPF Online Disability Equality Capacity-building Course (2021)
Disabled activists, their organisations and leaders need to have a good understanding of the oppression we face as disabled people, regardless of our impairment. We need to understand what has to change. Thinking of us as a problem to be fixed, an object and as people without rights. We need to understand such old-fashioned thinking must change to a social model/human rights approach, in line with the UNCRPD and SDGs, where disabled people are in control of what happens to us as powerful subjects in civil society. We are capable of bringing about real social and economic change for the 450 million disabled people of the Commonwealth.