WG Celebrates 25th Anniversary at Annual Meeting - 29 October 2025
WG Celebrates 25 Years!
The Washington Group on Disability Statistics held its 25th Annual Meeting on 29 October 2025.
The one-day meeting was held virtually and marked 25 years of advancing the collection and dissemination of high-quality, cross-culturally comparable data on disability in adults and children.
The program included:
- Release of a new tool developed in collaboration with UNICEF:
- the Child Functioning Module - Humanitarian Version
- Updates on the development of new measures:
- on mental health and psychosocial functioning
- Updates from WG Regional Disability Statistics Groups and regional commissions:
- Brazzaville Group
- Buenos Aires Group
- Pacific Group
- South and East Africa Group
- UN ESCWA
- Presentations by WG parnters:
- CBM Global Disability Inclusion
- Center for Inclusive Policy
- UNICEF