Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Disability Inclusion and International Development Issues: Discussion
Ms Fatoumata Diouf:
Sustainability is the key of our intervention. What we do is work with the local and state government, as well as the disabled people's organisation or DPO, to make sure they can advocate for themselves, have their voices heard and can take questions to the next level. In terms of funding, through our programmes we have been advocating for governments to allocate budget lines to take up this issue of disability. International funding is always good but we are also aware that we need to be able to raise resources at the national level to be able to address the issues of disability which are local or national. English is not my primary language. If I have said anything that is not clear, please ask me to repeat the point.