International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action
At EDF, an energetic team is working on international cooperation and humanitarian action.
EDF has an active role to play to ensure persons with disabilities and Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) are included in EU international cooperation and humanitarian response.
To achieve this result, we collaborate with a range of partners on various projects, advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities around the world.
Our ongoing projects
Empower Ukraine
Empower Ukraine worked towards the better inclusion of at-risk internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, veterans, older people, single-headed households, adults and children in institutions, and members of host communities with and without disabilities in specifically six oblasts (regions) in Ukraine. It ended in May 2026.
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Climate: Strengthening the Disability Climate Action Caucus
Final documents published Youth and climate policy brief (to be disseminated in the fall 2026) Best practices on...
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Empowering OPDs for Inclusive Crisis Response and Disaster Risk Reduction
This project aims to strengthen and sustain EDFs advocacy for disability-inclusive international cooperation, humanitarian action, and crisis response...
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Humanitarian Action, International cooperation
EU Human Rights and Democracy Action Plan must deliver on disability rights
We are calling on the EU to ensure that disability rights are fully reflected in the next EU...
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Humanitarian Action, International cooperation
No Time to Lose: EU Use of the DAC Disability Marker
We hosted the event launching our report, “No Time to Lose: Assessing European Assistance for Disability Inclusion from...
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Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), International cooperation
“EU in the world 2025”: EDF report on disability-inclusive EU external action
We just published our third edition of the “EU in the World report”, highlighting EDF’s advocacy and policy...
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An-Sofie Leenknecht
Human Rights Coordinator
Contact: ansofie.leenknecht@edf-feph.org
Phillipa Tucker
Eastern and Central Europe Coordinator
Project: Empower Ukraine
Contact: phillipa.tucker@edf-feph.org