Invitation to the Webinar-Training “Guarantees of Social Protection for Women with Disabilities in Ukraine: Legal Norms and Application Practice” 

When: June 3, 2025

Time: 14:00, Kyiv time

Format: Online (Zoom)

As part of the project “Humanitarian Response and Recovery: Strengthening the Leadership of Organizations of Women with Disabilities”,we invite you to a practical training session dedicated to key aspects of the realization of rights of women with disabilities in Ukraine.

Webinar Program:

• Overview of key social rights, benefits, and mechanisms of state support for women with disabilities;
  
• Practical implementation of these rights in communities: challenges and solutions;
  
• Daily barriers women with disabilities face in realizing their rights;
  
• The role of civil society organizations in protecting rights and strengthening the leadership of women with disabilities;
  
• Specific support for mothers of children with disabilities.

Speaker: – Pavlo Zhdan, Advisor to the Head of the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine, expert on the rights of people with disabilities, experienced trainer, and human rights advocate.

The webinar will be a space for dialogue, experience sharing, and collective exploration of ways to support women with disabilities in difficult social conditions.

Please register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Nu46oXV9RVyiAOC-qkafpg

The project "Humanitarian Response and Recovery: Strengthening the Leadership of Organizations of Women with Disabilities" is implemented by the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine with the technical support of UN Women Ukraine and funding from the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) — a flexible and rapid financing tool supporting quality actions that enhance the capacity of local women to prevent conflict, respond to crises and emergencies, and leverage peacebuilding opportunities.

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is the only global financing mechanism exclusively dedicated to supporting women’s participation in peace and security processes and humanitarian action. Governed by a diverse group of civil society, government, and UN representatives, WPHF is a multi-partner trust fund that mobilizes urgently needed funding for local, women-led organizations and works alongside women on the front lines to build lasting peace. Since 2016, WPHF has provided funding and strengthened the capacities of over 1,000 local women’s civil society organizations advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda and delivering humanitarian action in 41 crisis-affected countries.