The Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL) project is a global effort to enable disability rights advocates to transform society. The GDRL team is working to build a large collection of digital knowledge on disability rights and related topics.
The GDRL is a joint initiative of the United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) and the University of Iowa’s WiderNet Project with funding support from the United States Agency for International development (USAID).
The goal of the Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL) is to improve the lives of persons with disabilities in developing countries by using off-line digital libraries to deliver information and educational materials to disabled people’s organizations (DPOs), decision makers, individual advocates, health care institutions, and other organizations and agencies that support the disability civil rights movement and that lack adequate Internet access.
The project funds the deployment of the GDRL to 60 demonstration sites in developing countries by the end of 2012.
To be considered as a deployment site, the applicants must complete the on-line application form to provide general information about their organization and must provide at least one professional reference.
The GDRL team will review all online applications and will contact eligible organizations for more details to further measure their capacity to become a deployment site. Sites chosen for further screening will usually be contacted via email or phone.
It is anticipated that the number of applicants will far exceed 60 funded deployment sites. This process will be competitive and it cannot be guaranteed that everyone applying to become a deployment site will be chosen.
Selection Criteria
A deployment site must meet all of these Organizational Criteria:
- Organizational capacity to host GDRL content and to share this content with others;
- Demonstrated commitment to promoting and/or facilitating disability rights;
- Strong commitment to sharing GDRL content with a broad cross-section of society, especially including people with disabilities. This necessarily requires a commitment to ensuring maximum feasible accessibility for people with a wide range of physical, sensory, and mental disabilities;
- Clear commitment to gender equality in training and service programs;
- Willingness to provide evaluative feedback and usage reports;
- Creativity, resourcefulness, and innovation in addressing both anticipated and unanticipated challenges, and
- Ability to gain endorsement from the local USAID mission to participate in this program.
Technical Criteria:
A deployment site must meet this Technical Criteria:
- Cannot easily obtain digital information via the Web because…
- Have no Internet access, OR
- Internet access is so slow as to make web browsing difficult or impossible, OR
- Internet access is so expensive that offering web browsing to an expanded clientele is unaffordable, OR
- Internet access is available only at limited or unreliable intervals.
Deadline for submitting the applications is Sept 1, 2011
For further information and details, please visit this link.
Please I am the Adimistrator of Resource Center of Persons With Disabilities in Savelugu/Nanton District in the Northern Region of Ghana.
please,I will be interested if you could attached an application form in my email inbox.
Thanks for the opportunity, SSLPP will submit ana application so that it can help the disabled farmers that have fr along been failing do participate fully in the rural develoment programs due to physical challenges
How great to hear about the GDRL program, I work for a disability network organisation in northern part of tanzania, and have been trying to find a way of getting the actualy statistics on disability and use them for advocating for the rigths of the PWDs within the region. we will send the online proposal as soon as possible.
Thanks
Dear Sir/Madam
I am pleased to to have found out this news about possible support to local initiatives on Global Disability Rights Library.I work for Chitungwiza Progressive Residents Association.It is in the best interest of residents to see better education for their sons and daughters at their door step.The majority of disabled young people are ferried from Chitungwiza 27 Kilometers to and from Harare the capital city of Zimbabwe for their education .
Hope this will alleviate their situation
I will be please to send you my proposal as soon as possible.We have Disables working as farmers in our Association. Therefore this is an opportunity for them to have their capacity developed.
Kind regards.
Olatunde Johnson,
SPIN-Farming Association Sierra Leone.
Saket sansthan society is dedicated for the people with differently ability of expressing their thoughts. This institution emphasize on quality education in Government Primary school ,Women empowerment,rural devlopment and right based approches in Azamgarh (UP,India). It provides nonformal as well as formal education.
society is working children with special needs. it is registered under societies registration act, has
12 A tax exemption under income tax act.
80G income tax exemption
education and quality life to differently abled persons.
Saket Mahila Samajotthan Shilp Awam Gramodyog Sansthan is also advocating on legal issues of differently abled persons by filing litigation and legal awareness.
please advise us how we can work with you to make a difference the lives of the disabled people.
thanks with Regards!
Amar Nath Sharma
Manager
Saket Sansthan
Retrospec Africa is glad to hear about information regarding GDRL. our organization is currently undertaking a pilot programme on People living with Disabilities in 15 communities in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region of Ghana.
we will file in our application soon after a board meeting next week. thank you. meanwhile please have our online deatials for now
Hello,
I am Asif from Pakistan.Our organization arrange a medical camps for brick kiln people & villager.They have no basic no facilities.We provide a free medicine & check up.We urgent need medicine medical equipment & Ambulance van.It is short message.
This is a new adventure for the pro-poor groups in the world. It is pleasing having an innovative plans for the disability groups. I will appreciate GDRL funding a site in my state -Akwa Ibom State-Nigeria. Our disabled persons are terrible suffering and this will create an enabling environment for our people.
We will apply and submit the application before the dateline.
Thank you
Good for GDRL to come and show concern for the disability. Mind Uganda shortly shall apply.