UNICEF Disability Norway Partnership

UNICEF and the Government of Norway are working together to break barriers faced by children with disabilities, including by supporting organizations of persons with disabilities to address violence against children with disabilities in Uganda and scaling up social protection systems to fight against poverty.
Yetneberesh Nigussie Molla (UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa) describes the challenges faced as a 5-year-old child with a visual disability in a rural village of Ethiopia.
Rosangela Berman Bieler (UNICEF Headquarters) describes the work that UNICEF has been doing in partnership with organizations of persons with disabilities to understand the challenges faced by children with disabilities in emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fernando Botelho (UNICEF Headquarters) describers UNICEF's work on data on children with disabilities, aimed at knowing where they are and what challenges they face.