National collaboration

Important aspect of the Centre’s activities is collaboration with national advocacy and activist groups, disabled people’s organizations, policy makers, service providers, local and national governments. 

Disabled People’s organizations

The collaboration with disabled people‘s organizations and activist groups in Iceland are at the core of the Centre’s activities.

Since its foundation the Centre has worked closely in advocating disability human rights with a wide range of disabled people‘s organizations in Iceland including

• The Organisation of Disabled People in Iceland https://www.obi.is/is/english,
• The National Association of Intellectual Disabilities https://www.throskahjalp.is/is/samtokin/english,
• TABÚ, Feminist Disability Activist Group http://tabu.is/category/english/, Átak,
• Félag fólks með þroskahömlun (The Icelandic Self-Advocacy Group) http://www.lesa.is/ and
• NPA Miðstöðin (The Centre for Independent Living) http://www.npa.is/.

Members of the Centre also work with informal groups of disabled people such as a long-term collaborative work with a group of parents with intellectual disabilities.

Policy-making

The Centre has worked both independently and in collaboration with DPOs on advising Ministries and Alþingi (the Icelandic Parliament) on disability law and policy.