In recognition of the International Day of People with Disabilities last month, NDI is highlighting the essential work of partners who are at the forefront of fighting for greater levels of equality and organizing to shift social norms and perceptions and reduce barriers to political participation for persons with disabilities.

In recognition of the International Day of People with Disabilities, NDI is highlighting the essential work of partners who are at the forefront of fighting for greater levels of equality and organizing to shift social norms and perceptions and reduce barriers to political participation for persons with disabilities.

Around the world, humanitarian crises and disasters have deepened pre-existing inequalities that marginalized populations, particularly people with disabilities, experience. Despite comprising more than 15 percent of the global population, people with disabilities are often excluded from crisis response and recovery efforts as well as broader policymaking processes. Sub-Saharan Africa is no exception to this trend, with crises not only threatening to do new harm to the disability community but also threatening to erode the gains the disability rights movement has made.