Project Cycle Management is a structured approach to manage multiple projects or programmes and to improve the quality of projects by learning from one project and applying the lessons in the following ones. It allows everyone working on the project to identify and monitor how the project is progressing; and whether there are any issues with particular aspects of the deliverables.
AFUB is attending the 1st Africa Conference on Deaf Blindness under the theme: meeting the sustainable development goals opportunities and challenges. The conference offers forum to discuss the future of deafness and services in Africa
Despite the current context of the COVID 19 pandemic, on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, the Togolese Association of the Blind (ATA) with the support of the ADP Project (African Disability Protocol) celebrated the 2021 International White Cane Day under the theme chosen by Togo was: "the white cane and its carrier, what a look during and after COVID19". This theme was debated throughout Octo ...
We, participants to the Africa Regional Workshop on the Marrakesh Treaty held on 29th to 30th November 2021 in Nairobi, Kenya; REAFFIRMING the freedom of persons with disabilities to seek, receive and access information on an equal basis with others and through forms of communication of their choice, as defined by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities CONCERNED ...
We the representatives of the youth in Central, Western, Eastern and Southern African Union/Organisations/Associations of the blind having gone through an intensive three-day training and appreciating work of AFUB towards promoting the youth agenda are: Concerned that the AFUB constitution has not established a youth wing or a youth department in the AFUB constitution;Worried of the ...
In line with AFUB ‘s objective of strengthening the self-awareness of blind and partially sighted persons and to develop sense of responsibility, one of AFUB efforts is to build the capacity of women and youth as self-advocates and to exercise self-determination and self-representation. In view of this, AFUB organized Youth’s workshop and trained them on Human Rights / CRPD/African Disa ...
Dear Colleagues, Members and Partners African Union of the Blind (AFUB) and its wider membership reflects on the experiences and challenges for the previous year 2020. In this edition, AFUB, its members and stakeholders will identify strategies of surviving alongside the COVID-19 pandemic and prioritise the ratifications of the protocol on human and people’s rights on the right ...
AFUB President(Mr. Ishmael Zhou) On Thursday 10th December 2020, AFUB joins the rest of the world in observing Human Rights Day under the theme: Recover Better – Stand Up for Human Rights. This year’s theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring that Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. “We will reach our common global goals ...
“I can do this job eyes closed”. This statement is the boasting of an individual who masters his or her work. On the occasion of the 2019 International Women’s Day, I am proud to attribute thisclaim to all women with visual impairment around Africa. With our environment generally not adaptedto our deficiency, our daily activities are a big challenge. We therefore have to be smart and ...
CONSIDERING that Article 66 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights provides for special protocols or agreements, if necessary, to supplement the provisions of the African Charter, and that the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Thirty-first Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in June 1995, endorsed by resolut ...
