SAFOD

Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled

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Information is power

Disability Documentation, Resource and Training Centre  DDRTC-SA  provides comprehensive information on disability issues.

Information is power - and information is essential for advocacy and lobbying.

In the year 2000 SAFOD started to establish a Disability Documentation, Resource and Training Centre DDRTC - SA  for Southern Africa.
This Centre rests on three pillars:
A - Documentation and Resources
B - Information Services
C -Training Unit.

Read more about DDRTC - SA Structure.

The Documentation and Resources Department has several databases with information and addresses of Disabled People’s Organisations, international development organisations, civil society organisations. There is a Documentation Database to find all collected documents referring to disability issues. There a mailing lists for SAFOD publications and a database of resource persons for the training unit.

The library collects printed matters, audio and video material.
The Information Services Department develops and publishes SAFOD publications like Disability Front Line, Disability Dialogue
and other printed media like this halftime report.

In addition Information Services runs SAFOD’s Information Network with e-mail (safod@netconnect.co.zw), internet and the SAFOD website www.safod.org.
On a long range it is planed to produce information material on audio-cassettes (DAISY - Disability Audio Information System) and in Video (DIVIS - Disability Video Information System).

The Training Unit in cooperation with the Programmes Department offers training workshops in different areas, like:
- Information & Media
- Leadership & Capacity
- Institutional Building
- Business Training.

The DDRTC-SA provides all interested persons, groups, organisations, institutions with data and information material on disability issues. It supports the disability movement at all levels, the DPO’s and their leadership, Governments and non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, to advocate the rights and responsibilities of disabled people in a society for all.