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The WG-SS has been translated into Ukrainian. It may be obtained here or by email request to the WG Secretariat at: WG_Secretariat@cdc.gov. The WG thanks the UCL International Disability Research Centre at University College...

The Washington Group Secretariat team would like to express its sincere condolences to Samoa Bureau of Statistics and Pacific teams. This is indeed a profound loss to the SBS, and also to the entire disability data community. The...

The launch event, which took place on November 10, 2021 featured keynote statements, presentations of the report’s key findings and the Centre’s activities and goals, along with a dialogue among stakeholders on promoting the...

UNICEF has officially launched the calls for proposals for projects relating to data analysis, visualization, and capacity building, as well as the calls for data stories. They have launched a page within the data.unicef.org...

On August 25th 2021, the Washington Group Secretariat provided a capacity building workshop, at the request of the Disabled Peoples’ Organisation of Denmark, to Organizations of Persons with Disabilities in Nepal, Ghana and...

On October 21, the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities, the International Disability Alliance, and CBM Global Disability Inclusion officially launched the first comprehensive Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit at a...

To view the "Using the Washington Group Tools to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disability" document, click here. 

To view the presentation slides, click here, and to view Dr. Elizabeth Lockwood's talking points,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted millions of people around the world. For some, it has caused illness or death. For others, lives have been disrupted due to lockdown and social distancing measures. While some people have been...

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided additional and strong evidence of the need for data 1 disaggregation to determine whether the rights of persons with disability are being protected . There is a growing need to rapidly gather and analyze data on COVID-19 among persons with disability. These data are essential for program and policy development at the national and global levels so that interventions and the allocation of medical, public health, social and economic resources are inclusive of persons with disability.