Projects
Promoting Disability Inclusive Development Practice in Key Socio-economic Sectors
The Project aims at contributing to the promotion of inclusive practice from the disability perspective in 3 major development sectors: Physical infrastructure, Education and training, and Employment/labor market. To this end, the action encompasses a number of specific and groups of activities that are planned to be implemented in close cooperation with and the active involvement of relevant government sector organizations and other key actors.
Capacity Building Training Organized on Disability and Inclusive Development Issues For Media Experts and Practitioners
Executed with a Grant from EU CSF IIDate: December 27th -28th, 2017Venue: Sarem International Hotel Venue: Sarem International Hotel, Addis Ababa Venue: Pinna Hotel, Hawassa
Opportunities and Challenges of Visually Impaired Persons in the Music Sector in Ethiopia
Practice has shown that music arts offer talented blind persons opportunities for success and fulfillment. In illustration of this, blind music personalities of international stature may be cited from present as well as past generations. The same holds true of the Ethiopian society. Over the centuries, there have been many blind individuals who made immense contributions in different forms of traditional or religious music.
The Inclusion of the Visually Impaired in the Educational, Social and Economic Systems in Ethiopia
According to the latest statistics, up to one-seventh of the world’s population live with some form of disability. Blindness/visual impairment is reported to be a major type of disability, with well over 300 million people estimated to live with it around the globe (Global World Report on Disability-2011).