Date of publication
February 2025

These are the local government, NGOs and INGOs resources available globally including in the countries we work in, to help people with deafblindness and those that support them, to navigate through daily life.

Global

World Federation Of Deafblind People – WFDB

The World Federation Of Deafblind is a global non-governmental organisation by and for people with deafblindness, which aims to improve the quality of life and protect their rights, all within the framework of the search for equal rights and opportunities in all sectors of society, as well as being the global forum for the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the area of deafblindness.

Peru

National Council For The Integration Of People With Disabilities – CONADIS

CONADIS is a public organisation with technical, administrative, economic and financial autonomy, which is part of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations of Peru, whose work is the inclusion of people with disability; the generation of policies and processes that reduce the gaps in inclusion, participation and exercise of full rights of people with disabilities at the national level.

Uganda

National Council for Persons with Disabilities

The National Council for Persons with Disabilities is a government agency tasked to monitor disability inclusion in both government and private sector. It has current news and events about disabled people, research and government reports.

Romania

Educatedra

Educatedra is an accessible platform bringing edcational materials across a wide range of school topics and subjects

Kenya

Kenya Institute for Special Education (KISE

KISE is a semi-autonomous government agency of the Ministry of Education with a mandate to ensure that every child with special needs and disability accesses quality education and achieves their full potential.

Nepal

Nepal Disability Portal

Nepal Disability Portal is collective effort of organizations working on disability. It is defined as one stop centre for all disability related data and resources.

India

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities offers extensive resources in accessible versions on policies, programs, schemes, scholarships, and guidelines for the empowerment of persons with disabilities, including those with deafblindness in India

Bangladesh

National Resource Centre on Deafblindness (NRC-DB)

The Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) is one of the first organisations which took up systematic initiatives to provide support for the deafblind people. Under its deafblind support programme, CDD established NRC-DB to develop a range of resources for the deafblind population.

Tanzania

Disbaility:IN

Disability:IN provides information on legislation, employment requirements, accessibility requirements and data insights.

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