Events

PAST EVENTS

• ‘Advancing Disability Rights Monitoring through Disaggregated Statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Launch Event’ on February 19th, 2025.Here is the recording’s Zoom link.
• ‘Monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities: Launch of the Disability Data Initiative (DDI)’s databases on January 23rd, 2025. Here is the recording’s Zoom link. The password to access the recording is: #EJ4Ce.m
• Kaviyarasam Patchaoappam, Pavani Saikam, and Sophie Mitra spoke at the 8th International Conference on Development and Development at PRASHO, Hyderabad on November 23rd and 24th, 2024.
• The Disability Data Initiative participated in the United Nations World Data Forum in Medellín: Session TA 1.12: Data and Persons with Disabilities – Innovative and Recent Efforts from Different Stakeholders on November 15th, 2024. More details here.
• ‘Disability Inclusive Statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the Disability Data Initiative’ on July 17th, 2024. Access the presentation slides here.
• ‘Disability Data for Inclusive Development: Highlights from the 2023 Disability Data Report’ on March 4th, 2024 in Hyderabad, India. Recordings are available here.
• The webinar ‘Data on Disability in Guatemala: What Does the Evidence Tell Us for Its Use in Public Policy?’ was held online on February 20th, 2024. Access the recording in Spanish here.
• Launch of the 2023 Disability Data Initiative’s Report in the United Nations Conference of State Parties (COSP) side event titled ‘Zooming in on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ on June 16th, 2023.
• The 4th World Data Forum featured the session ‘Maximizing the Use and Value of Disability Data and Data Partnerships for Inclusive Development’ on April 25th, 2023. Access the recording here.
• ‘Data on Disability in Latin America and the Caribbean: Their Use for Public Policy’. Access the recording in Spanish and Colombian Sign Language here.
• Launch of the 2022 Disability Data Initiative’s Report in the session titled ‘Towards Inclusive Societies: Making Data and Statistics Disability- and Gender-Inclusive’ in a COSP side event on June 17th, 2022.
• ‘Towards a Global Data System Inclusive of Persons with Disabilities’ in the 2022 Global Disability Summit side event on February 17th, 2022.
• Disability Data Initiative Launch in a COSP side event on June 18th, 2021.