The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) provides this Inclusive Digital Advocacy Toolkit as a new resource to support civil society organizations (CSOs), organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) and diverse advocates to use social media and technology in advocacy activities. As the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted marginalized communities such as young people, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI+ persons, women, rural communities, ethnic and religious minorities, Indigenous Peoples and others, digital advocacy has been a key tool in bridging the gap between advocates and decision-makers. The Inclusive Digital Advocacy Toolkit includes tips, detailed steps and specific examples of how advocates can add digital advocacy to their existing and future advocacy initiatives.
The Alliance Accountability Toolkit is a set of practical tools that empowers activists and NGOs to hold their governments accountable for the safety of all road users. Using the Accountability Toolkit, you will play your part in reducing road deaths and injuries, contributing to SDG 3.6 and the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030. You will also help make our world safer, cleaner, more livable, more equitable, and more sustainable.
This web resource is about blindness and painting. It features a documentary called “The Terry Fragments”, which depicts blind painter Terry Hopwood-Jackson’s painting process. After becoming blind, Terry has developed a unique painting process and style, which allows him to execute all stages by himself, apart from mixing the colours. He uses plasticine to create the outlines and textures, which he then paints and varnishes. One painting may take him several weeks to several months, depending on how motivated and inspired he is.
In this podcast by disability charity RIIVE, Darren Gormley interviews Catalin Brylla about the relationship between documentary and disability, visual impairment, representation, creativity and artistic expression.
Presented by renowned disability scholar Prof. Beth Haller (Towson University in Maryland), this webinar focuses on how to do self-advocacy through media and the internet. It includes tips on making videos, doing online petitions, and advocating through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.
This project creates awareness on how disabled people are portrayed in the media. One of the ways disabilities in media advocate for positive disability identity and making of disabilities an integrable difference in an ablest world is through giving space and voice to people with disabilities to share their stories and lived experiences, contribute to advocacy projects and be a part of advocacy campaigns. This website supports the agential rights of people with disabilities to tell their stories in a way that informs the media.
