While countries still navigate between lockdown and reopening stages, the COVID-19 pandemic impact on the human rights of persons with disabilities remains unclear. A very glaring evidence gap currently is an understanding of how the pandemic affected the working of OPDs and how that stands to impact disability inclusion moving forward. The event aimed at providing guidelines to local, national and international stakeholders to support their recovery and build sustainable resilience to future shocks, based on the findings from three complementary research projects. With the UNPRPD support, IDA and IDDC gathered data respectively on the experience of persons with disabilities since the first wave and on the COVID-19 consequences on projects and programmes run by CSOs in the Global South. The Disability Inclusion Helpdesk, a FCDO funded facility, IDA and Sightsavers investigated the pandemic impact on OPDs.
