The Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) has trained 26 organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) on shadow reporting, rights-based approach and impact tracking.

The training, Development Diaries gathered, covered rights-based advocacy, using Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) principles.

The training was organised with support from the Disability Rights Fund (DRF), through its Technical Assistance Funding Programme.

‘The training would serve as a prelude to the preparation of an alternative report to the CRPD Committee’, Executive Secretary of CCD, David Anyaele, said.

On DRF’s support, he said the funding programme provided resources to beneficiaries for specialised advice and customised support.

This, he noted, was to resolve specific problems and increase the capacity of OPDs and the larger disability movement in target countries.

‘The first three days of the workshop were used to train selected leaders of OPDs on alternative reporting so that participants understand the UN treaty system’, he said.

‘This is for the development of monitoring mechanisms and the major steps in writing an alternative report.

‘The last two days of the training focused on rights-based advocacy and outcome tracking and harvesting with a concentration on CRPD principles.

‘This is to ensure that grantees become more strategic in their advocacy and design projects that are result-oriented.

‘It is also to ensure that participants are able to produce reports that clearly identify outcomes of executed projects or activities’.

For her part, the Regional Head of Programmes, DRF, Katiya Sakala, said the DRF provided the support to enable OPDs to prepare for the submission of an alternative report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of PWDs.

Source: NAN

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