An international map centred on CILs, together with networks and allied organisations promoting self-determination, personal assistance, peer support, deinstitutionalization and community living.
CILs remain the protagonists. Other organisations are included as an allied ecosystem when they share principles, practices or struggles of the Independent Living movement.
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Centres for Independent Living are rooted in the idea that disabled people should be able to choose how to live, where to live and with whom to live, with the same rights, opportunities and level of participation as everybody else.
CILs are not simply organisations providing support: historically, they represent one of the strongest cores of the international Independent Living movement. Many are disability-led and grounded in peer support, self-determination, personal assistance, human rights and community living.
Around CILs there is also a broader ecosystem of networks, DPOs, cooperatives, grassroots movements and allied organisations which, even when they do not fully match the classic CIL model, still share principles, struggles and visions deeply connected to Independent Living.