Bridge training review
About this project.
We are supporting self-advocates with intellectual disabilities to improve Bridge training – a program that helps advocates speak up for the rights of people with disabilities.
What is Bridge?
Bridge CRPD-SDG is a training program for organisations of people with disabilities and disability rights advocates.
It teaches them about the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The training helps advocates to speak and and helps organisations take part in development activities in their country.
You can learn more about Bridge on the International Disability Alliance website:
Why we are doing this project.
Bridge training has developed very fast since 2015.
The teams believed that a review was needed to ensure that all participants with intellectual disabilities can take part.
This project contributes to our work on the issue of inclusive organisations.
What we are doing.
We got together a group of self-advocates and their supporters who had completed the Bridge training. We called them the Alumni Reference Group.
The group made an accessible survey to ask other self-advocates about their experience of the Bridge training.
We met at an in-person workshop in Kenya where the group talked about the results of the survey.
They talked about changes that would make the Bridge training more accessible for people with intellectual disabilities.
We wrote a report with all of the changes that the group recommend.
Next we will support the International Disability Alliance to make changes to the training.
The group launched a network for people with intellectual disabilities who complete the Bridge training.
This will help group members share updates and support each other with advocacy work.
This project followed the Listen Include Respect Guidelines for consultations. This made sure that people with intellectual disabilities led the process from the start.
The Alumni Reference Group trained the Bridge team on the Listen Include Respect Guidelines.