Events

2025 Global Disability Summit: 2-3 April 2025

The International Disability Alliance (IDA), the Government of Germany, and the Government of Jordan will host the third Global Disability Summit (GDS) in Berlin, Germany.

GDS brings...

01/12/2024

Dates for WG24 Announced!

The Washington Group on Disability Statistics will hold its 24th Annual Meeting on 8-10 October 2024.

The annual meeting will be held virtually. 

More details and the agenda will be shared closer to...

08/10/2024

The WG will hold two upcoming webinars to support member countries in creating a Country Disability Report using the WG Short Set on Functioning.

In 2020, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) membership endorsed the...

26/06/2024

UNICEF and the Government of Australia are hosting a side event that will launch two new data collection tools: the Child Functioning Module - Teacher Version and the Inclusive Education Module

Registration for this event is here...

13/06/2024

The WG hosted Elizabeth Lockwood and José Viera for a virtual webinar on citizen-generated data on 28 February 2024.

A recording of the webinar is now available.

Persons with disabilities are one of the most marginalized and...

07/03/2024

The Washington Group will host Elizabeth Lockwood and José Viera for a virtual webinar on citizen-generated data.

28 February 2024

8:00am-9:00am EST

Persons with disabilities are one of the most marginalized and excluded groups...

28/02/2024

The Washington Group on Disability Statistics will hold its 23nd Annual Meeting on 30 October 2023 - 1 November 2023.

The annual meeting will be held virtually. 

More details and the agenda will be shared closer to the event.

30/10/2023 - 01/11/2023

The International Disability Alliance (IDA), the Government of Germany, and the Government of Jordan will host the third Global Disability Summit on 2nd - 3rd April 2025 in Berlin.

The Summit is planned as an in-person event...

01/08/2023