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20 January 2023

An innovative model for disability screening and issuing disability ID cards

The Act on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2017 has classified disability into 10 types based on the type of impairment and four types based on the degree of severity. To make disability-specific services delivery and distribution of social protection allowance effective, the government provides a disabili...

16 January 2023

Improving access to disability support

Salyan, Nepal: On a sunny winter morning in November 2022, at the office of the Bagchaur Municipality in Salyan District in western Nepal, excitement is in the air as the local government rolls out its very first disability screening camp. Eager locals stream into the premises, having been pre-informed about the programme, designed to screen and…

30 November 2021

Reimagining a Better Post-Pandemic World for Children with Disabilities: Conference

This image shows a mother playing with her child who has a physical disability, The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities spells out clearly and unconditionally that persons with disabilities have equal access and a right to full and effective enjoyment of all human rights – the removal of barriers explicitly termed as a condition for access and the enjoyment of equality., Since 1992, every year, 3 December is observed as the Inte...

08 February 2019

Sports Help Tackle Discrimination Associated With Disability

KATHMANDU, 6 February 2019 – It gives UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation a great pleasure to congratulate the Nepal Women's Blind Cricket team for winning the First International Women’s Blind Cricket Series in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, 4 February. As they retu...

28 November 2018

The Royal Norwegian Embassy and UNICEF partner to support children with functional limitations in Nepal

JOINT PRESS RELEASE KATHMANDU, 28 November 2018 – The Royal Norwegian Embassy and UNICEF have entered into a partnership to improve the situation of children with functional limitations with the aim of strengthening inclusive education in Nepal. In a ceremony held in Kathmandu today, His Excellency Mr. Lasse Bjørn...

Disability In Nepal

This paper by Disability Research Center at School of Arts in Kathmandu University presents a review on relevant literatures and policies related with disability issues and research in Nepal. In addition, the paper also tracks the progress that has already been made in the area of disability issues, and it also fi...

Conference on disability calls for greater opportunities for people with disability in Nepal

KATHMANDU, 2 July 2018 – The Government of Nepal, along with organizations of people with disabilities, the Government of the United Kingdom and UNICEF, called for greater opportunities for people and children with disability to help them reach their full potential. The call was jointly made during a conference ti...