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Global Disability Summit 2025: Closing the gap between disability inclusion and development
Inclusive Futures is attending the summit in Berlin on 2-3 April. Visit our booth or attend our panel event to connect with us and learn more about our programme insights.
Sense International wins prestigious Zero Project award for its work with entrepreneurs with disabilities
Sense International has won a 2025 Zero Project Award for empowering individuals with deafblindness and complex disabilities in Kenya to build successful businesses and achieve financial independence.
Driving change: launching the six principles for inclusive development
Inclusive Futures and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office marked International Day of People with Disabilities by jointly hosting an event to launch the six principles for inclusive development.
Empowering women through the Global Labor Program
On International Day of Rural Women, we share how the programme is empowering rural women in Kenya by ensuring they have the skills, knowledge and opportunities to thrive.
“We’re seeing a growing recognition that people with disabilities are valuable contributors to society”
Highlights from Inclusive Futures’ panel discussion at the African Disability Forum Conference, the premiere of our new video and the road to the Global Disability Summit.
From Kenya to Berlin: conferences in Nairobi hailed as opportunity for disability rights progress
In the run-up to the Global Disability Summit (GDS) in April 2025, the African Disability Forum conference and African Regional Pre-Summit of the GDS are critical for advocating for change.
Celebrating partnership: moving disability inclusion from the margins to the mainstream
Sightsavers’ Claire Walsh and the International Disability Alliance’s Amba Salelkar share their reflections on the progress achieved by the flagship UK aid-funded Disability Inclusive Development programme and the road ahead.
Inclusive Futures wins Zero Project award for work on education
Inclusive Futures has won a Zero award for its work on collaborating with organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs) across its inclusive education projects.
Stories of organisational change: how our partners are putting disability inclusion into practice
In this blog series, we capture the journeys our mainstream development partners have taken towards becoming more inclusive as a result of being part of the Inclusive Futures initiative.
How can we meaningfully include women and girls with disabilities in development programmes?
Panellists from the recent webinar ‘Be inclusive: reaching women and girls with disabilities in humanitarian and development programmes’ respond to our follow-up questions.
