Objectives 

• Objective 1: OPDs are equipped to understand and advocate on health equity for persons with disabilities.
  • Activities: develop information materials tailored to OPDs on health equity for persons with disabilities including tools that can be used at the grass roots level; (2) coordinate and deliver at least 15 webinars on health equity, targeting organizations of persons with disabilities; delivered across all 6 WHO regions, ensuring accessibility.
• Objective 2: Experiences related to health equity for persons with disabilities are better known.
  • Activities: collect at least 10 case studies (testimony including video and photos) from persons with disabilities, across all six WHO regions, considering gender, ethnic, cultural, and other diversity; disseminate key information on health equity for persons with disabilities through key fora.

Eligibility Criteria

• Minimum criteria of the work or vendor:
  • Vendor must be an Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) working at the international level.
  • Vendor must have access across its network, to a number of other OPDs, which represent both impairment-based organizations, and regional organizations, at global and regional levels.
  • Vendor must have first-hand experience on working on health equity for persons with disabilities.
  • Vendor must have experience and capacity for coordinating webinar activities including captioning and international sign-language (at least).
  • Vendor must have experience creating advocacy messages tailored for OPDs.
• Preferable experience of the vendor:
  • Experience working with WHO at the International level on health equity for persons with disabilities.
  • Experience supporting Organizations of Persons with Disabilities on health equity for persons with disabilities.
  • Experience supporting the activities of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities at global, regional and national level on advocacy issues.

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