People with Disability Australia Incorporated

Photo of the group from the Samoan Women's Forum.

Issues & Campaigns

Supporting PWD

There are many ways to support us:

Make a Donation Becoming a Disability Rights Defender Volunteering and student placement Becoming a financial member

PWD has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

Our Approach

PWDA’s unique position enables us to draw on our history and organisational experience to share with other DPO’s to further their capacity for leadership, organisational development, networking, advocacy, lobbying and policy formulation. We have a strong focus on building partnerships and achieve this through a DPO 2 DPO approach to disability inclusive development.

PWDA fully acknowledges that many of our Asia-Pacific colleagues are likely to experience levels of disadvantage which is compounded by an inability to have even their basic needs meet. The simple fact of not having enough to eat each day, any means to move oneself from place to place, being persecuted as a result of ones gender, being illiterate, living in a country which is in conflict or a state of emergency will greatly hinder their capacity to develop high level advocacy skills, let alone engage in dialogue to understand and progress human rights. Our DPO 2 DPO approach seeks to address this.

Our DPO 2 DPO approach centres on and puts into application the Disabled People’s International (DPI) slogan ‘Nothing about us without us’. It provides a unique DPO 2 DPO partnership model to undertake disability inclusive development where both sides of the partnership are enhanced.

Our DPO 2 DPO approach is a multi-faceted approach which:

builds individual capacity by providing practical assistance to people with disability which aims to meet their basic needs, and establish a platform where capacity building initiatives are effective and empowerment of human rights realised;
enhances DPO organisational capacity by fostering mutually beneficial partnerships between DPO’s, with the aim to achieve sustainable outcomes and comprehensive change locally, regionally and globally; and
continues to build the global disability rights movement by enhancing the individual and organisational capacity of people with disability to have a voice of their own.

Back to International Development menu

Return to Top