IACD Webinar: Stories of Change: Working with Women with Disabilities on Advocacy on their Rights

Join us on 11 March for an inspiring webinar exploring practical approaches to advancing the rights of women with disabilities and strengthening their leadership in advocacy.

Women and girls with disabilities continue to face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that limit their full participation in social, economic, political life and in other spaces. Barriers such as stigma, inaccessible services, harmful gender norms, limited representation in decision-making spaces and inadequate policy implementation contribute to their exclusion.

Over the years, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) in Kenya like Women Challenged to Challenge (WCC) , feminist movements and various development partners have deliberately seen the importance of being inclusive in their advocacy work and putting at the core the lived experiences and leadership of WwDs especially those at the community level. Storytelling and sharing these experiences have proved to be very powerful advocacy tools that humanize policy discussions, influence those at the tables where decisions are made and at the same time mobilizing community members toward inclusive change.

This webinar seeks to highlight practical experiences, lessons learned, challenges faced and transformative journeys emerging from advocacy work led by and alongside women with disabilities specifically during the implementation of the AWESOME programme (2021-2025) . The programme was carried out in three outcome levels which were Self (WwDs themselves), Society and Formal Institutions. Over the last 5 years WCC has engaged individual WwDs and WwDs groups and organisations, their communities and formal institutions to embrace and advance the rights of WwDs through locally-driven initiatives, so that grassroots momentum builds within the women’s movement. We have seen the importance of building an inclusive movement of women through collective advocacy for policy changes and improved public services, especially SGBV prevention and response services and at the same time learning together without leaving the WwDs in the villages behind.

📅 Date: 11 March
🎤 Speakers: Jacky Wangeci and colleagues, Women Challenged to Challenge (Kenya)
🌐 Learn more: https://www.wcc.or.ke/
📖 Read impact stories: https://embraceeveryone.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/women-with-disabilities-making-great-strides-in-kenya/

For an overview of the AWESOME project, please see AWESOME/LG/2021-2026 - Women Challenged to Challenge (WCC) and AWESOME (multi-country)

We warmly invite advocates, practitioners, organisations, and anyone committed to disability rights and gender equality to join us.