News and opinions

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An Inclusive Futures disability-inclusive employment pilot programme in Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh and Uganda has recently come to an end. Simon Brown, Sightsavers’ global technical lead on economic empowerment, looks at what we've learned.

June 2022

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Inclusive Futures partner BBC Media Action trained 150 journalists in Bangladesh to improve how people with disabilities are portrayed in the media. Here's their checklist to help change attitudes towards disability.

June 2022

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Inclusion International shares tips from its latest toolkit on supporting people with intellectual disabilities at work. Many of the tips are free and can be implemented without the expense of outside expertise.

June 2022

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Martha Bekele from Development Initiatives explains the challenges around budget tracking and offers recommendations on how governments can be more transparent.

June 2022

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Development Initiatives shares learnings from its work training organisations of people with disabilities on how to collect, use and store high-quality data.

June 2022

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As Inclusive Futures moves from testing innovations to delivering development programmes at scale, our inclusive education programme in Nepal is helping children with disabilities return to school.

April 2022

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The $7 million Global Labor Program - Inclusive Futures aims to increase the inclusion of people with disabilities and improve labour rights at the Kenyan companies of global drinks brands Coca-Cola and Diageo.

March 2022

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Lorraine Wapling, a technical expert for Inclusive Futures, discusses the lack of inclusion in pandemic responses and argues why the development and humanitarian sectors need to pay attention.

September 2021

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The Inclusive Futures formal employment programme has reached a milestone of 10,000 completed modules of employability training for jobseekers with disabilities. Their experiences highlight why it is vital to improve opportunities and challenge discrimination.

June 2021

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People with disabilities are being left behind in development, so we must test new ways to ensure they are included in programmes, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Inclusive Futures programme director Johannes Trimmel talks about the need to innovate and how our programmes are making this a priority.

April 2021

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Follow the money: how to track public spending on disability inclusion

Leave no one behind: what does data have to do with inclusion?

How schools in Nepal are including children with disabilities

New $7 million Inclusive Futures programme launched

“I’m shocked: I thought we’d made good progress with disability inclusion”

Milestone highlights challenges for jobseekers with disabilities

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