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IDDC is not a funding body. Please click here for more details.
IDDC is a self-managing group currently consisting of 16 international non-government organisations supporting disability and development work in over 100 countries globally. IDDC's aim is to more effectively and efficiently promote the rights of disabled people through collaboration and sharing of information and expertise. To achieve this aim, IDDC believes development policy and practice should be inclusive.
In 1993, the Italian organisation AIFO had been discussing the need for collaboration with the World Health Organisation's Rehabilitation Unit (now the Disability and Rehabilitation Team) and decided to call a meeting of European NGOs who were involved in disability and leprosy programmes in countries of the South. Eleven NGOs attended the first meeting and at a subsequent meeting in Oslo in 1994, the International Disability Consortium (IDC) was established. SInce then, the group has met every 6-9 months hosted by different member organisations.
From its initiation, IDDC members decided to keep structure to a minimum. From 1994 until 1999, IDDC operated with a voluntary committee of three people, including a co-ordinator, elected every two meetings. A small annual fee for administration was contributed by members. Members paid for their own attendance at meetings. In January 1999, it was decided to elect a part-time paid secretariat consisting of a part-time Co-ordinator (maximum one day per week) plus a part-time administrative assistant. Member's fees were increased on a sliding scale to cover this. This structure became operational in April 99.
IDDC has found that the consortium works best by keeping a minimum infrastructure and by knowing its limits; the small size has enabled real collaboration, trust and mutual influence to occur.
The Statutes of IDDC were revised by members during their meeting in Bologna in June 2000. They give basic information about IDDC's aims, strategy, structure and membership.
View IDDC Statutes as PDF (50 k)
Download IDDC Statutes as Word (216 k)
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