To date the Secretariat has developed a
footprint in 25 countries including:
- Mozambique,
- Kenya,
- Namibia,
- Lesotho,
- Malawi,
- Zambia, South Africa,
- Burundi, Cameroon,
- Tanzania, Uganda,
- Egypt, Mauritania, Tunisia,
- Gambia, Mali, Cape Verde,
- Ghana, Liberia, Togo,
- Guinea, Burkina Faso,
- Ethiopia, Senegal, Rwanda
Objectives of Ambassadorial Country
The Ambassadorial Status is a Secretariat civil society award to the Government for progress already made and to be made in the feld of disability mainstreaming and integration. The award is effected through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) linked to specifc programmes. The MOA is not a political agreement.
The objective of this status is to:
a. Provide an opportunities for mainstreaming or integrating disability in key spheres of government programmes.
b. Showcase the disability model and achievements as examples of good practice worth of replication in other parts of Africa and beyond.
c. Facilitate the mobilisation of funding and other resources that will make it possible to implement the programmes in section 2.2 of the MOA.
d. Demonstrate the usefulness of leadership by government in the feld of disability mainstreaming and human rights.
e. To publicly affrm and reward the Government for achievements in disability and human rights while at the same time promoting international and development cooperation in the feld of disability.
The objective of the award is to promote sharing of best practice in disability mainstreaming. The award
was decided upon after implementing activities and collection of evidence and data that support and validate the progress that has been made in the country.
Ambassadorial Country Requirements
The Ambassadorial Status will be awarded on the basis of…
1. Programmes, projects and strategies in the feld of disability that the country has already or is in the process of implementing. This work includes progress made in the development of policies and legislation on disability, mainstreaming of disability in sectors of government and implementation achieved to date.
2. Funding provided to a National Programme that is planned and implemented.
3. Facilitated funding provided to the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD) or components of the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan.
4. Other terms outlined in the proposal accepted by the Government, which inter alia provides for the establishment of a resourcing mechanism provisionally entitled the Africa Disability Decade Trust Fund.
The Government also undertakes to call an international conference of partners and bi-tri-lateral funding agencies with the facilitation of the Secretariat to the three sets of programmes referred to above. The conference will be aimed at committing resources to programmes that fall within the three categories mentioned above.
