Funding

OUR SOURCES OF FUNDING

The programmes offered by DAPD Inc. are funded primarily through grants and donations. Contributions in cash and in-kind have come from numerous sources.

Past and present Governments of Dominica, Foreign Governments, external donor agencies, Local Corporate and Private Citizens and ordinary Dominicans enabled us to achieve our goals and objectives as they are outlined in our various Strategic, Economic, Social, Personal and Sustainable Development Plans.

Some of the external donors from whom grant funding was procured include:

• Christian Aid
• Canadian University Services Overseas
• Oxfam Canada
• Caribbean Development bank (CDB)
• Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF)
• The Government of Japan,
• UNESCO
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Canadian Fund for Local Initiative
• British High Commission
• United States Embassy in Barbados
• La Francaphone
• Ready, Willing…. Enable! – RWE
• UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme
• UNDP/OECS Commission Multi-Dimensional Approaches to Poverty Eradication
• International Tele-communications Union (ITU)
• Caribbean Tele-communications Union (CTU) Australian High Commission
• The Maria Holder Memorial Trust
• United States Peace Corps
• Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

We can affirm that the social life, dignity and status of persons with disabilities have been improved since the formation of a movement of and for all types of disabilities.

FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN