What is FIDIDA?

FIDIDA ry - Finnish Disabled People’s International Development Association

Finnish Disabled People’s International Development Association FIDIDA is an association of six Finnish disabled people’s organisations. In FIDIDA the people with disabilities from the North and South work together to promote the human rights of the disabled. Equal rights and participation of disabled people is a starting point for all activities.

FIDIDA is a service, coordination, and collaboration organ for its member associations in issues concerning disability and development co-operation. FIDIDA gathers and distributes information, provides training on issues concerning disability and development, and lobbies for the mainstreaming of disability issues in national and international development co-operation.

FIDIDA became a partnership organisation of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 2010. FIDIDA's new 'Finnish Disability Partnership Programme' gathers the development co-operation of FIDIDA's member associations as well as global education and advocacy work conducted by FIDIDA.

The Programme promotes the fulfillment of the human rights and increases the participation and improvement of living conditions of the disabled, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Righs of Persons with Disabilities.

Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilities (Invalidiliitto)
http://www.invalidiliitto.fi/portal/en/

Finnish Association of the Deaf (Kuurojen liitto)
http://www.kl-deaf.fi/portaali/international/index.html

Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Kehitysvammaliitto)
http://www.famr.fi/frontpage

Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired (Näkövammaisten keskusliitto)
http://www.nkl.fi/english/index.htm

Threshold Association (Kynnys)
http://www.kynnys.fi/kynnys/english.html

ABILIS Foundation (ABILIS-säätiö)
http://www.abilis.fi

 

FIDIDA is a member of IDDC (International Disability and Development Consortium)

The Chairperson of FIDIDA for 2011-2012 is Mrs Sisko Rauhala from Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The FIDIDA board consists of one member (with substitute) from each member organisation.

The FIDIDA staff:

Anja Malm
Programme Director
+ 358 45 258 7557 (mobile)

Juha Valta
Programme Advisor
+ 358 400 460 139 (mobile)

Ville Hirsikangas
Finance & Budget Advisor
+ 358 400 459 964 (mobile)

Anita Lintula
Communications Coordinator
+358 400 460 325 (mobile)

Mari Koistinen (on maternity leave)
Programme Officer

 

Address:

FIDIDA - Finnish Disabled People's International Development Association
Haapaniemenkatu 7-9 B, 16th floor
00530 Helsinki
FINLAND

E-Mail: firstname.surname@fidida.fi

fidida@fidida.fi

You can find photographs about different projects in Zambia, Mozambique and Ecuador, as well as some photographs about FIDIDA activities in Finland by clicking this link.