Established in 2001, the Lao Disabled People’s Association (LDPA) is a membership-based organisation for people with disabilities advocating disability rights and providing services to members based on their needs.
The LDPA has over 11,000 members from across the country but seeks to represent the interests of all people with disability within Lao PDR irrespective of their membership status. The LDPA does this at a national and provincial level. The LDPA’s head office in Vientiane Capital works in partnership with several organisations on strategic advocacy and rights-based projects and also provides outreach, opportunity and empowerment at a provincial level where members are organised into groups.
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Cross-cutting; advocacy; Disability and community; capacity building; organisations of persons with disabilities (ODP); Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; Human rights; rights; Inclusion; empowerment; inclusion and mainstreaming; Information & knowledge; dissemination; knowledge development; Programme/ Project; good practices; programmes and projects