The Portuguese National Confederation of Organisations of Disabled People has 36 member organisations representing persons with intellectual, physical , sensorial disabilities.

The organisations aims:

• Denounce the living conditions of people with disabilities
• Claim the inclusion of people with disabilities as a human rights issue
• Claim equal opportunities in accessing the labor market
• Recognition of the democratic role of the associative movement in the area of disability in the development of active policies
• To demand the inclusion in the State Budget of funds destined to organizations of people with disabilities

CNOD is a non-profit organization whose objective is to guide its associative action by the principles of confessional or political freedom and the unity of the disabled movement as conditions necessary for the full social integration of the disabled and for this purpose it proposes to:

• Coordinate and boost the activity of associations of disabled people;
• Defend, by the most varied means at their disposal, the collective interests of the disabled;
• Promote, organize and support actions leading to the satisfaction of the just claims of the disabled.

• Thematic seminars for reflection on issue related to disability;
• Every three-year organising the National Disabled Congress;
• National Meeting of the Disabled;
• Raising public awareness on issues of people with disabilities