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Uganda

Country Director: Christine Matovu
Programme start: 1987
Population: 29m
% living on less than US$1 a day: 23% (estimated)
Adult life expectancy at birth: 50 years

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ADD Uganda is one of our longest established programmes, we have been supporting disabled people’s organisations here for about 22 years.

ADD supports disabled people’s organisations to build up their membership by seeking out disabled people who are stuck at home. When disabled people meet other people and realise that they are not alone, it gives them strength to be more active and get involved in the struggle for rights.

In Uganda there is a strong national federation (NUDIPU) in place and functioning independently of ADD.  ADD works with about 50 groups across all levels.  Some of these are district level impairment specific associations that their national association is not yet strong enough to link with directly.  Others are district unions that ADD supports on behalf of NUDIPU until it has the capacity to manage all the areas.

Visit ADD Uganda's website and read more about their work and partners.

International Disability Conference 

The Disability Fraternity in Uganda, led by NUDIPU and ADD, is organising the first ever Disability Conference in the Commonwealth in the run up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Kampala. The Conference, being held from 4th to 7th November 2007 has the theme ‘Promoting Disability Rights: The inclusive way of Transforming Commonwealth societies to achieve Political, Economic and Human Development’.

The conference is intended for leaders of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs), Policy makers, implementers, representatives of International DPOs, Multilateral organisations and other stakeholders in the Commonwealth Countries. The aim is to bring together leaders of Persons with disabilities and key disability stakeholders in the Commonwealth for the first time, with a view to:

Raising awareness on the recently adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, creating an understanding that Millennium Development Goals and establishing a forum of disabled people in the Commonwealth.

The conference has been organised with support from ADD Uganda, USDC and Sight Savers.