East and Southern Africa
We launched the new CBID short course in partnership with the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, certified by the University of Cape Town in South Africa. This constitutes the final, advanced level of our CBID training and is open to CBM staff and partners as well as students.
In Zambia, we worked with partner Beit CURE Hospital and the Zambian government to launch the country’s first-ever temporal bone laboratory for ear and hearing care.
Central and West Africa
In Togo, we launched a new, 12-year project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, which will be implemented by the Fédération Togolaise des Associations des Personnes Handicapées, the Togolese National Programme for Eye Health, and the Coalition Nationale Togolaise pour L'Education Pour Tous. The project aims to build sustainable structures for inclusive healthcare and empower disadvantaged groups to participate in the country’s social and economic development.
In Nigeria, we are working with partners Elim Christian Vocational Training Centre and the Centre for Gospel Health and Development on a new, three-year EU-funded project to strengthen the resilience of civil service organisations and OPDs through community-based inclusive climate change adaptation and mitigation. The project also seeks to domesticate the national climate change policy at the subnational levels by making it fully inclusive. Another, three-year project funded by CBM aims to promote the wellbeing of persons with disabilities through improved access to affordable, right-based and sustainable packages of healthcare and livelihood services in three states.
