A.H.M. Noman Khan, Executive Director, Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) has been awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2010, Philippines.

Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) is a development organization working on disability issues focusing on integrating disability in mainstream development since 1996. CDD provides human resource development support and technical assistance to development partners to systematically address the needs of persons with disability around the country. Currently CDD is in direct contact with over 300 development organizations working with disability issues in 52 districts in Bangladesh.

CDD offers a number of training courses each year to cover the versatile issues concerned with disability. Surpassing the national territory, CDD has established linkages and partnerships with the individuals and organizations working for persons with disabilities worldwide.

The fundamental objectives of CDD’s training courses are to build an organisation’s capacity on: (a) Development, implementation and management of activities addressing disability issues.  (b) Creation of awareness, positive attitudes and disability-friendly environment. (c) Provision of primary therapeutic services and establishment of referral links. The courses are:

1. CAHD Orientation: Programme Design, Implementation and Management (PDIM) for Managers

2. Social Communication on Handicap and Disability (SCHD): Social Communicator

3. Community Handicap and Disability Resource Person (CHDRP)

Some advanced and needs-based training courses, conferences, seminars, information and training materials, technical and programme follow-up, monitoring and networking support are also given to supplement the initial training received.

Through training programs and community level sensitization activities, CDD tends to shift and terminate charity based community attitudes towards disability, and induces right based social mobilization.