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Stories from the field

Program updates and moments from community visits, written by the team.

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4 weeks ago

Who Carries the Convention to the Village? CBR After the Quiet Retreat of the International Agencies

In the very week the world celebrated twenty years of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, I kept returning to a paradox few seem to notice: the approach that carried…

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1 month ago

From Africa to the World: How a Continental Network Shapes the Global Disability Movement

The story of development is often told as a one way road: expertise comes from the North, and application happens in the South. But from my place on the bridge between the African field…

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1 month ago

What It Means to Lead Africa's Community Based Rehabilitation Network

When people hear the phrase "chair of a continental network," a stock image usually forms: an office, a title, a seat at the head of a table. After more than a year leading the CBR Africa…

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1 month ago

After Two Decades of Leading, What Was Left to Learn About Myself?

After Two Decades of Leading, What Was Left to Learn About Myself? Dr. Ayman El-Tantawy International Expert in Inclusive Development & CBR | Chair, CBR Africa Network In the development…

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1 month ago

What We Don't Say Out Loud About the ICF: A Critical Reading from the Field

What We Don't Say Out Loud About the ICF: A Critical Reading from the Field I write these lines as one of the firmest believers in the value of the International Classification of…

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1 month ago

Crisis as a Leadership Classroom: What 23 Years at Kayan Taught Me

Dr. Ayman El-Tantawi Executive Director, Kayan Society for Persons with Disabilities · Chair, CBR Africa Network After 23 years at Kayan, I am certain of one thing: no leadership course on…

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1 month ago

Measuring Impact: Numbers Tell You How Much; Stories Tell You What Mattered

In our constant effort to build inclusive and just communities, one question follows us into every report we write and every donor we address: did we make a real difference? Our quantitative…

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1 month ago

Twenty Years of the CRPD: A Great Promise, an Uneven Harvest

On 9 June 2026, the UN Secretary General stood in the General Assembly Hall to open the nineteenth Conference of States Parties, marking twenty years since the adoption of the Convention…

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1 month ago

Change for Whom, Why and Who Says So? When Theory of Change Becomes a Tool of Justice

We often treat a theory of change as a more sophisticated version of the logical framework a smarter way to plan, deliver, and predict results. But there is another way to use it, entirely…

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1 month ago

The Bridge: From Promise to Proof

On my desk sit two documents. The first looks forward: a guide to building a theory of change, asking how we think change will happen before we begin. The second looks back: a study that…

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