How to make your work more disability inclusive
No more excuses – take the next step.
Our Top 10 Excuses Countdown highlights some of the reasons given when people with disabilities are excluded from global development policies and programmes. With all the evidence and resources available, no one in the humanitarian or development sectors should claim ‘we don’t do disability’ and exclude 16% of the world’s population in our work.
Inclusive Futures will continue to collect evidence of what works, as well as what doesn’t, and share what we learn with the wider development community – join us in creating a more inclusive society.
If it’s not inclusive, it’s not effective
Read the available evidence
To see how existing evidence on disability inclusion in policy and programming can inform your work, visit the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk funded by Inclusive Futures. The research and advice it provides ranges from family planning for women with disabilities to inclusive humanitarian programming.
Visit the helpdesk
Explore the disability data
An estimated 15% of the world’s population has a disability. The collection of disability data is improving, and evidence has shown the huge impact of COVID-19 on people with disabilities, so it’s more important than ever that our work is inclusive. Find out more on the disability data portal.
Visit the portal
Create a disability-confident workplace
If we want our work to be disability inclusive, our workplaces should be too – find guidance on making your organisation more inclusive from the inside out with our disability-confident employers’ toolkit, covering everything from accessible communication to inclusive hiring practices.
Explore the toolkit
Need more convincing?
Disability inclusion is the right thing to do, and it’s our collective responsibility. Read more on the costs of exclusion and benefits of inclusion in this report published by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, co-authored by CBM and the International Centre for Evidence in Disability.
Read the report
“I’m shocked”: why development must change
Read Lorraine’s opinion