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...Empowering people with disabilities and to ensure their active participation in society.

Welcome to NASCOH

Headquartered in Harare and founded in 1969, NASCOH is the umbrella body of 70 organisations of and for people with disabilities (PWDs) in Zimbabwe, representing the mentally and physically challenged, the visually and hearing impaired, and those with conditions like epilepsy and Down syndrome.

NASCOH’s vision is to be leaders in the holistic empowerment of people with disabilities in Zimbabwe and beyond and its mission is to promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities through a well-coordinated membership.

Key objectives that guide NASCOH in achieving its mandate include lobbying and advocating for disability friendly legislation and policies, capacity building and coordinating the activities of member organisations, provision of research and information dissemination on disability, and provision of advice on disability to government and interested bodies.

 

#DisabilityVoteMatters

April 4, 2024 7:00 pm

Distributing of flyers and pasting posters to encourage people with disabilities to go register to vote, inspect the voters roll and participate in the actual voting...

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NASCOH Activities

The final aim is to empower people with disabilities and to ensure their active participation in political, economic, social and cultural life in a way that is respectful and accommodating of their difference.

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Petition Submission Engagement meeting  on the Ratification of the African Disability Protocol and Media Briefing

Introduction DZT and NASCOH with support from Sightsavers hosted an engagement meeting and press conference […]

April 5, 2023

Zimbabwe needs a disability COVID-19 Response

The Covid-19 pandemic, which global partners have described as “the defining global health crisis of […]

July 9, 2020

Cyclone Idai: Lessons learnt for disability in Zim

People with disabilities are not included in the mapping, planning, implementation and monitoring of disaster […]

January 16, 2020

NASCOH Consortium Interventions

Cognisant of the overarching importance of coordination role that NASCOH plays, NASCOH has adopted a […]

January 6, 2020

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To be leaders in the Holistic Empowerment of people with disabilities in Zimbabwe and beyond.