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DPI Region

Africa

DPI’s African membership spans anglophone, francophone, lusophone and arabophone countries, working through national federations of persons with disabilities.

DPI has organised in Africa since the 1980s, when regional development offices were established to serve anglophone countries (initially hosted in Zimbabwe) and francophone countries (initially hosted in Mauritius). Today the region brings together national federations and umbrella bodies of persons with disabilities from across the continent.

African members work on the domestication and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), disability-inclusive development, the leadership of women and youth with disabilities, and the inclusion of persons with disabilities in national poverty-reduction and development plans.

National Assemblies

39 listed

  • Angola

    Federação de Organizações de Deficientes de Angola (FAPED)

  • Benin

    Fédération des Associations de Personnes Handicapées du Bénin

  • Botswana

    Botswana Society of People With Disabilities (BOSPED)

  • Burkina Faso

    Fédération Burkinabè des Associations pour la Promotion des Personnes Handicapées (FEBAH)

  • Burundi

    Union des Personnes Handicapées du Burundi (UPHB)

  • Cameroon

    Handicap sans Frontières

  • Cape Verde

    Associação Caboverdiana de Deficientes (ACD)

  • Central African Republic

    Union Centrafricaine de la Fraternité Chrétienne des Malades et Handicapés Physiques

  • Chad

    Union des Associations des Personnes Handicapées du Tchad

  • Côte d’Ivoire

    Fédération des Associations des Personnes Handicapées de Côte d’Ivoire (FAHCI)

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Intercommunautaire Congolais pour les Personnes avec Handicap (CICPH)

  • Eswatini (Swaziland)

    Federation of the Disabled in Swaziland (FODSWA)

  • Ethiopia

    Federation of Ethiopian National Associations of Persons with Disabilities (FENAPD)

  • Gambia

    Gambia Federation of the Disabled (GFD)

  • Ghana

    Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD)

  • Guinea

    Fédération Guinéenne pour la Promotion des Associations de et pour Personnes Handicapées (FEGUIPAH)

  • Lesotho

    Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD)

  • Liberia

    National Union of Disabled (NUOD)

  • Madagascar

    Plateforme des Fédérations des Personnes Handicapées de Madagascar (PFPH)

  • Malawi

    Federation of Disability Organisations of Malawi (FEDOMA)

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  • Mali

    Fédération Malienne des Associations de Personnes Handicapées

  • Mauritius

    Federation of Disabled Persons’ Organisations Mauritius

  • Mozambique

    Fórum das Associações Moçambicanas dos Deficientes (FAMOD)

  • Namibia

    National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia (NFPDN)

  • Niger

    Fédération Nigérienne des Personnes Handicapées (FNPH)

  • Nigeria

    Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD)

  • Republic of the Congo

    Union Nationale des Handicapés du Congo (UNHACO)

  • Rwanda

    National Union of Disability Organisations of Rwanda (NUDOR)

  • Senegal

    Fédération Sénégalaise des Associations de Personnes Handicapées

  • Sierra Leone

    Disability Awareness Action Group

  • Somalia

    Somali Disabled People Council

  • South Africa

    Disabled People South Africa (DPSA)

  • Sudan

    Sudan Union for Persons with Disabilities

  • Tanzania

    Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organisations (SHIVYAWATA) (SHIVYAWATA)

  • Togo

    Fédération Togolaise des Associations de Personnes Handicapées (FETAPH)

  • Tunisia

    Tunisian Blind Federation

  • Uganda

    National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU)

  • Zambia

    Zambia Federation of the Disabled (ZAFOD)

  • Zimbabwe

    Federation of Organisations of Disabled People in Zimbabwe (FODPEZ)

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