The Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD) offices opened in Cape Town in 2004. SADPD operates as a not for profit organisation which is incorporated under section 21 of the Companies Act 61 of 1973 in South Africa. 
Our Organisation's registration number is: 2003/027026/08

Work started in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal.

Since then the Secretariat’s work has spread and we now have African Decade activities in Burkina Faso, Cap Verde, Mali and Mauritania. Work has also been initiated in Burundi, Namibia and Tanzania. SADPD seeks to extend and broaden the scope of its work to directly include and involve more of the 53 African countries over the next five years. During 2007-2008 we will launch activities in Lesotho, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, Gambia, Cameroon, Chad, Tunisia, Togo and Ghana.

The mission of the Secretariat of the African Decade is to empower governments, Decade Steering Committees, Disabled People's Organisations and development organisations to work in partnership to include disability and persons with disabilities in policies and programmes in all sectors of society in Africa. Our work is done mainly through capacity building, advocacy and lobbying and awareness making.