Our Objectives

• Networking between DPO’s, academics, researchers, and the intended audiences for the research (e.g., policymakers, civil society, business) throughout the African continent.
• Coordinating and translating research findings into useable and accessible formats for different intended audiences.
• Facilitating information-sharing and reviewing, as well as monitoring and evaluation.
• Facilitating dialogue between all stakeholders in the disability debate, thus helping to keep the disability debate alive in Africa.
• Establishing Disability Research Country Working Groups (DRCWGs) tasked with producing in country research evidence that will assist in disability policy formation/inclusion of disability issues in existing policies.
• DRCWGs will identify action pathways and produce Best Evidence-to-Action Practice Guidelines for their countries which would be published on the AfriNEAD webpage.
• Assisting member countries to develop a methodology for profiling their own local situation regarding disabled people, the services available to them, the research being conducted and areas needing investigation, and to identify facilitators and barriers for turning evidence to action. These profiles will be published in an e-book on the AfriNEAD webpage.
• Facilitating a triannual Africa-wide symposium focusing on a particular issue of interest in order to assess progress on evidence-to-action, consolidate and take the debate forward.
• Each event will produce a unique and stimulating collection of papers to be published as a Special Issue of a suitable international journal.
• Bridge the gap between academics, Government, business, and the needs of the disabled community.