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is a woman-led Organization established on 27th February 2015 and registered as an Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja, Nigeria with (RC No. 75802).
The organization was born from personal experiences of the founder, who acquired a disability at the age of 11, owing to poor medical attention and struggled with discrimination and social acceptance from the stages of being a girl to adulthood.
The aim of HIFWYD, is to provide a platform that will amplify the voices of women and youths with disabilities, create safe spaces for them to build self-confidence, promote their wellbeing and protect their rights; and through education, empowerment, and advocacy, enable them to thrive and make meaningful contributions in society.
We build partnerships with critical governmental, non-governmental stakeholders including those Organizations of and for Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) at local and international levels with a view to influencing positive changes in legal and policy frameworks, programs and interventions that will enhance disability and gender sensitive social and economic justice, inclusion, access, participation and empowerment.
HIFWYD is committed to promoting rights, inclusion and empowerment of women, girls and youths with and without disabilities through advocacy, capacity-building, livelihood support and public engagement.
HIFWYD envision a society, were women and youths regardless of disability or any circumstances can actualize their potentials and live their dreams!
Women, girls and youth with disabilities encounter less attitudinal, institutional and environmental barriers as a result of Increased and robust public engagements on their rights and inclusion.
Beneficiaries, clients and stakeholders receive and make effective use of comprehensive capacity-strengthening programs geared towards promotion and sustenance of advocacies and appropriate policy and programmatic responses to issues that affect women, girls and youth with disabilities.
Evidence-based advocacies lead to establishment of Policy-driven programs, services and interventions which support rights protection, social inclusion and economic empowerment for women, girls and youth with disabilities across geopolitical areas covered by HIFWYD’s activities.
Strategic tools, operational policies and guidelines are developed and strengthened for the purpose of improving HIFWYD’s institutional capacity to deliver on its strategic goals and objectives.
A robust M&E framework that will strengthen HIFWYD’s capacity to comply with operational policies and meet with programmatic targets is developed and implemented.
