Events
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PAST EVENTS
2025
- ‘Monitoring Social Development and Inclusion at the Local Level’, COSP18 Side-event held on Zoom and in person at the United Nations in New York. Recordings are available with IS interpretation or without, transcripts are avaibable in English, French and Spanish, June 10th, 2025.
- ‘Enhancing Community Engagement in Monitoring CRPD Implementation Through AI Text Mining, Economic Data, & Accessibility Mapping’, COSP-18 Side-Event at UN Headquarters, New York, NY. You can watch the recording here, June 9th, 2025.
- Global Disability Summit’s Data Forum – DDI’s new databases presented in Session 2: Investments and Partnerships to Strengthen Data Systems, April 3rd, 2025.
- ‘Disability data in Latin America: How can we make progress on disability data utilization in the region?’. Recording is here, March 20th, 2025.
- Workshop on Disability Data in South Asia at Pragyaan Sustainable Health Outcomes Foundation (PRASHO), Hyderabad, India, March 21st, 2025.
- ‘Advancing Disability Rights Monitoring through Disaggregated Statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Launch Event’. Zoom link, February 19th, 2025.
- ‘Monitoring the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Launch of the Disability Data Initiative (DDI)’s Databases. Recording is here , January 23rd, 2025.
2024
- Kaviyarasan Patchaiappan, Pavani Saikam, and Sophie Mitra spoke at the 8th International Conference on Development and Development at PRASHO, Hyderabad, November 23–24, 2024.
- The Disability Data Initiative participated in the United Nations World Data Forum in Medellín, Session TA 1.12: Data and Persons with Disabilities , November 15th, 2024.
- ‘Disability Inclusive Statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the Disability Data Initiative’. Presentation slides here, July 17th, 2024.
- ‘Disability Data for Inclusive Development: Highlights from the 2023 Disability Data Report’ in Hyderabad, India. , March 4th, 2024.
- The webinar ‘Data on Disability in Guatemala: What Does the Evidence Tell Us for Its Use in Public Policy?’. Recording in Spanish here, February 20th, 2024.
2023
- Launch of the 2023 Disability Data Initiative’s Report at the UN COSP side event: ‘Zooming in on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’. Recording is here, June 16th, 2023.
- 4th World Data Forum session: ‘Maximizing the Use and Value of Disability Data and Data Partnerships for Inclusive Development’. Recording is here, April 25th, 2023.
- ‘Data on Disability in Latin America and the Caribbean: Their Use for Public Policy’. Recording in Spanish and Colombian Sign Language here, 2023.
2022
- Launch of the 2022 Disability Data Initiative’s Report at the COSP side event: ‘Towards Inclusive Societies: Making Data and Statistics Disability- and Gender-Inclusive’. Recording is here, June 17th, 2022.
- ‘Towards a Global Data System Inclusive of Persons with Disabilities’ – Global Disability Summit side event. Recording is here, February 17th, 2022.
2021
- Disability Data Initiative Launch – COSP side event. Recording is here, June 18th, 2021.