Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association (NIDA) is an apolitical, not-for-profit making and non-governmental organization established in 2009 AD. It is a right-based advocacy organization – led and run by, for and of indigenous peoples with disability (IPwDs) in Nepal. It was registered in District Administration Office, Kathmandu under the Organization Registration Act (1987) of Nepal, and also affiliated to Social Welfare Council (SWC) as a not-for-profit making organization. Since its beginning, NIDA raised the voice and issues of IPwDs and began the movement of identity and rights of IPwDs and advocating for identity and issues of intersectionality perspective within disability as well as within indigeneity which were in shadow even in the right-movement of Indigenous peoples and of persons with disabilities in Nepal. The NIDA aims to establish the collective indigenous identity and rights of IPwD as guaranteed the fundamental rights in the Constitution of Nepal, rights in the laws and policies. Since its inception, it has been actively working to raise issues and voices of indigenous peoples with disability and inter-sectional issues within the disability and indigeneity issues at national, regional and international level, and in coordination and collaboration with all right holders and likeminded organizations and networks.

NIDA has received membership of national and regional level federations like Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), and National Federation of the Disabled – Nepal (NFD-N) and Asia Indigenous People Pact (AIPP). It has also been working in the coordination and collaboration other national level organizations, nation and sub-national governments and government agencies in Nepal.