Persons with disabilities face multiple barriers-attitudinal, communication, environmental, institutional – in the crisis-affected North-West/South-West regions of Cameroon. Funding gaps and insufficient corporate social responsibility further marginalize persons with disabilities. The situation in the NW/SW highlighted that over 482,094 persons were reached with health responses including 5,015 persons with disabilities amidst the conflict-related barriers and funding constraint.
Owed to this backdrop, on 24 June 2025, FAWOI in partnership with Presbyterian Community Rehabilitation Services (PCRS) and CBM Christian Blind Mission, successfully convened a one-day training on Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Action for Humanitarian Actors and Civil Society Organisations for displaced populations, and host communities in the Health and Protection Sectors in West and Central Africa, attended by 25 humanitarian actors from:
Humble Friends Association (HUMFRIEH) Community Initiative AIDS Care and Prevention Program (CIACP)
This training was aimed at enhancing the capacity of humanitarian actors in designing and implementing inclusive services, aligned with the Inter-Agency Standing Community (IASC) Guidelines on the Inclusion of #PersonswithDisabilities in Humanitarian Action to improve living conditions and foster access to inclusive humanitarian action as part of the LeaveNoOneBehind Phase 4 project to reach 16,100 people, including 14% of IDPs and Refugees in Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Here is the training report should you wish to to go deeper into what was taught and the commitments that were made during the training, both long-term and short-term.
