[PDFlist] FW: Every Voice Included

Setareki Macanawai CEO at pacificdisability.org
Wed Oct 31 09:20:56 MDT 2018 

From: Disability Rights Fund [mailto:info at disabilityrightsfund.org]
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To: Setareki Macanawai <CEO at pacificdisability.org>
Subject: Every Voice Included

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Every Voice Included
Since the Disability Rights Fund and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund began in 2008, we have made it our mission to advance the voices of persons with disabilities, to ensure that the marginalized are not left behind, and to revolutionize participatory approaches in philanthropy and human rights movements.

We are celebrating our 10th anniversary year by sharing how DPOs and leaders with disabilities are ensuring that every voice is included.







Every Woman Counts

1) Robinah Alambuya, Director of DRF grantee Triumph Uganda<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=757fa0d8a3&e=c7c8abe5c1> was one of two women with disabilities DRF supported to participate in Creative Action Institute’s<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=375f5785ef&e=c7c8abe5c1> (CAI) Creative Mentor training in Kenya to better support girl advocates. Robinah, a woman who proudly identifies herself as a woman with psychosocial disability, and one other DRF grantee from Rwanda joined other women from East Africa to strengthen skills to help girls lead change in their communities.  We are proud to support Robinah and other women with disabilities to be the change and look forward to supporting girls with disabilities from Triumph and other grantee organizations from Rwanda and Uganda to attend follow-up CAI trainings in December. Read Robinah's stor<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=27387acf76&e=c7c8abe5c1>y.


2) Recent DRAF-funded advocacy by women with disabilities in Indonesia on the draft Elimination of Sexual Violence Act (RUU PKS) initiated dialogue between the women’s[Image removed by sender. Indonesian Women's Convening] and disability movements. This led to the first-ever convening of women’s rights activists from both movements, held October 2 – 3 in Jakarta and funded by DRAF.  The convening gathered 19 women with disabilities representing DRF/DRAF grantee organizations and 11 women’s rights activists to identify good practices, address challenges, increase awareness and understanding about gender equality and disability-inclusion, encourage learning and sharing, and set a joint advocacy agenda to raise the voices of all women in Indonesia to speak up about their rights. “The result is amazing since both groups were able to recognize key issues that they can work on together and strategize how to jointly advocate,” said Dwi Ariyani, DRF/DRAF Indonesia Grants Consultant.







Disasters and Discrimination Prompt Demand for Inclusion

3) Days before the world commemorated the International Day of Disaster Reduction (October 13), on October 6th, Haiti was hit by a 5.9 earthquake.  The week before, an earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia and left a rising death toll of more than 1,200.  In both countries, DRF/DRAF grantees have been demanding that persons with disabilities be included in disaster reduction efforts.  Read their stories<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=5aab87aa73&e=c7c8abe5c1>.
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4) Persons with disabilities in the Pacific are faced with increasing challenges brought on by rising sea levels due to climate change, development, and globalization. In their own clans, they often still face stigma and discrimination because of their impairments. In honor of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Setareki Macanawai - CEO of the Pacific Disability Forum and DRF/DRAF Board Member, shared how the indigenous concept of "Vanua" can be used to empower indigenous persons with disabilities. Read the blog<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=f9caae362a&e=c7c8abe5c1>.







Participatory Approaches Empower Progress
[Image removed by sender. Rwandan delegates in group discussion]5) "Tying new opportunities for participation back to the right to participate is critical…the SDGs won’t be achieved without utilization of the CRPD,” blogs<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=594cafab1a&e=c7c8abe5c1> Jorge Manhique, DRF/DRAF Program Officer for Rwanda and Malawi.   DRF/DRAF has funded numerous DPO coalitions to draft and submit alternative reports, including those from Rwanda and Vanuatu. Both countries were up for initial review in the 10th session of the CRPD Committee in September 2018. Following the pre-session, the Committee publicized a List of Issues for the governments of Rwanda<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=1850b2828e&e=c7c8abe5c1> and Vanuatu<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=327c5a158f&e=c7c8abe5c1>.  DRF and DRAF are proud of our grantees who have worked hard to increase visibility of the issues that persons with disabilities face on a daily basis.

6) In July, the UK government, in partnership with the Kenyan government and the International Disability Alliance (IDA), held the first-ever Global Disability Summit<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=ef12aeb096&e=c7c8abe5c1> for national government stakeholders, DPOs, and other civil society committed to disability-inclusive development. The Summit was preceded by a civil society meeting hosted by IDA. The events brought together more than 1000 stakeholders and sparked 170 commitments<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=90584daf8e&e=c7c8abe5c1> to tackle stigma and discrimination against persons with disabilities. DRF/DRAF’s Executive Director and Program Director participated in the meetings along with grantee representatives from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malawi, Nigeria, Pacific Island Countries, Rwanda, and Uganda. In the spirit of “nothing about us without us,” DRF provided funding for 22 DPO representatives from our target countries to attend. In addition, towards development of national government commitments, DRF/DRAF staff and grantees helped to support preparatory national summits in Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda.
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7) Over the past three years, DRF/DRAF’s Executive Director, Diana Samarasan, has worked with other participatory grantmakers and the U.S. Foundation Center to develop a Guide to Participatory Grantmaking<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=09527334c6&e=c7c8abe5c1> for funders interested in increasing the roles of beneficiaries of funding in their decision-making. In early October, the Guide was published on the Foundation Center’s GrantCraft website. The introduction to the Guide features DRF, and the site includes a video of Diana<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=d270a18210&e=c7c8abe5c1> explaining why participation in decision-making is so critical for persons with disabilities, as well as a participatory grantmaking mechanics document<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=f90f6bb79c&e=c7c8abe5c1> about DRF processes. Based on the Guide, on October 15th, DRF participated as a presenter in an Institute on Participatory Grantmaking at the global Human Rights Funders Network meeting in Mexico City, reaching more than 50 attendees from diverse human rights funding agencies.




Moving the Marginalized from the Margins

8) As human rights movements and philanthropic organizations begin to recognize the value of participatory approaches and inclusion of persons with disabilities, they struggle with the question of how to be inclusive. DRF’s own inclusion guru, Kerry Thompson, explains how in an insightful blog, Inclusion 101 – A Guide for the Well-Meaning, Well-Doing, and Well, Clueless. Read the blog<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=70f3ab6945&e=c7c8abe5c1>.

9) Making up between 0.2% to 2% of the population, persons with deafblindness are a very diverse yet hidden group.  DRF’s new Program Director, Bailey Grey, came to us from Sense International<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=171bbf3800&e=c7c8abe5c1> – an INGO working with persons with deafblindness. While there, Bailey worked to produce the first global report on the situation of persons with deafblindness, together with the World Federation of the Deafblind, International Disability Alliance, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  Read the report<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=d84b89a57d&e=c7c8abe5c1>.

10) When Kerry Thompson, DRF’s Information & Program [Image removed by sender.] Coordinator,
joined our team in 2008, she was also starting her own movement to fight for the inclusion of those with deafblindness.  As a woman with deafblindness herself, she channeled her struggles into the founding of Silent Rhythms, Inc<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=c3b817f751&e=c7c8abe5c1>. to advance the inclusion of people with disabilities in the arts and to use dance as a means to implement inclusion of people with disabilities in society.  Watch the ABC News’ More In Common<https://disabilityrightsfund.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5ab64248a9a5cf31479c17e28&id=0f7741a20f&e=c7c8abe5c1> episode that features Kerry and her work.
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