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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.

March 2025

Beryl, who is blind and has hearing loss in one ear, sits at a table making a mat.

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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.

March 2025

A photo of the panel at the event. Susannah, Alasdair, Paul, Kavita and Johannes are sitting on stage in front of the audience, and Lydia appears on a projector screen.

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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.

December 2024

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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.

October 2024

Two black women and three white men are sat at a long table - presenting as part of a panel. There are banners and a screen behind them saying 'African Disability Forum.' There is also a sign language interpreter to the left of the panel.

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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.

September 2024

Two women wearing plum and yellow-coloured dresses and headscarfs are smiling and laughing.

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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.

August 2024

A group of men and women, with and without disabilities are stood outside of a white, single-story building. There is a banner behind them showing the words 'Inclusive Futures.'

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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.

August 2024

A group of people are smiling and holding up A4 guides, outside a school in Nigeria.

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Inclusive Futures has won a Zero award for its work on collaborating with organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs) across its inclusive education projects.

December 2023

A group of women in colourful dresses and headscarves are listening to someone speak. A woman in white is showing another woman a document in her hand.

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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.

November 2023

Onyinyechi, who is a polio survivor and information analyst, sits next to her colleague Agiri at the Nigeria civil service commission.

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Panellists from the recent webinar ‘Be inclusive: reaching women and girls with disabilities in humanitarian and development programmes’ respond to our follow-up questions.

October 2023

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Global Disability Summit 2025: Closing the gap between disability inclusion and development

Sense International wins prestigious Zero Project award for its work with entrepreneurs with disabilities

Driving change: launching the six principles for inclusive development

Empowering women through the Global Labor Program

“We’re seeing a growing recognition that people with disabilities are valuable contributors to society”

From Kenya to Berlin: conferences in Nairobi hailed as opportunity for disability rights progress

Celebrating partnership: moving disability inclusion from the margins to the mainstream

Inclusive Futures wins Zero Project award for work on education

Stories of organisational change: how our partners are putting disability inclusion into practice

How can we meaningfully include women and girls with disabilities in development programmes?

What works to include people with disabilities?