SAFOD

Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled

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Capacity and Institutional Building Strategy (CIBIS)

Trains leaders and activists of the disability movement in organizational management, fundraising and how to lobby and advocate for disability rights in their countries and in the region. Strengthens the organizational structures of DPOs.

To fill the skill’s gap and to groom new and young leaders in the disability movement of the region SAFOD runs the Capacity and Institutional Building Strategy.
With the support of the Norwegian Federation of the Disabled (FFO) SAFOD organized under that programme in the first half of the African Decade several leadership training workshops.
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) came into the boat in 2002 and offered DPO leaders from Southern Africa the opportunity to travel to Japan and Thailand and to participate in a three-week training course and exchange visit on “Mainstreaming and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in Southern Africa”.
In all there will be a total of five training courses during the period of support (2002 – 2006) and 50 leaders will have been trained.

SAFOD also received support towards this programme and the African Decade from Action on Disability and Development (ADD) and Disability Awareness in Action (DAA), UK.
In May 2004 SAFOD held a management workshop for senior staff members of the Disabled People’s Organisations from all ten member countries in Lusaka, Zambia.

Manuel Lazaro and Carolina Francisca Chiau, delegates from Mozambique attending the SAFOD senior staff training workshop in Lusaka, Zambia in May 2004