Global Disability Summit 2025

HI will enhance access to assistive technologies by providing wheelchairs, prosthetics, and mobility aids in at least 20 countries over the next five years. 

To foster innovation in rehabilitation, HI will implement digital solutions such as 3D printing and telerehabilitation in at least 10 countries. 

Additionally, HI commits to collecting and analyzing gender- and age-disaggregated data to ensure equitable access to assistive technologies, aligning with its Disability-Gender-Age institutional policy.

HI will promote health equity by empowering Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), particularly youth and women-led groups, to advocate for inclusive health policies. By 2027, HI will develop training modules and resources, support OPDs' meaningful participation in health projects, and facilitate their engagement in key advocacy events.

In Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), HI pledges to implement four inclusive SRHR projects and develop four resources/tools to ensure disability inclusion in healthcare services, working in close collaboration with OPDs.

For Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), HI will promote the social participation and empowerment of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, strengthen OPDs’ capacities in at least three projects, and support the WHO Quality Rights Initiative in at least three countries by 2027.

HI will implement at least four new inclusive protection projects over the next four years, ensuring access to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP) prevention and response services. 
HI will also develop four resources/tools on disability-inclusive protection by 2029 and provide technical support to OPDs and women-led organizations in designing and monitoring protection initiatives.
Additionally, HI commits to ensuring that 75% of its GBV/CP interventions are implemented in collaboration with protection networks to strengthen disability inclusion. 

Over the next four years, all HI interventions will be based on intersectional analysis, systematically integrating disability, gender, and age perspectives. 

HI will integrate GBV and CP components into at least 25% of its Inclusive Education, SRHR, and MHPSS programs, ensuring quality, accessibility, and meaningful participation for persons with disabilities.

HI will strengthen disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction (DRR) by 2030, ensuring that risk reduction, preparedness, and early action measures in at least 15 countries are accessible and inclusive for persons with disabilities, particularly in climate-related disasters. HI will empower individuals with disabilities to manage disaster risks and actively participate in DRR decision-making, working closely with their representative organizations to make DRR systems more inclusive.

Additionally, HI will promote disability-inclusive climate governance by engaging in at least 15 policy events and dialogues at national, regional, and global levels over the next five years, amplifying the voices of persons with disabilities and fostering the active participation of women-led OPDs in climate action.

HI will advance disability-inclusive employment and economic empowerment by implementing four inclusive projects focused on skills development, business support, and job access, in partnership with OPDs, including women and youth-led organizations. 
HI will contribute to evidence generation by publishing two studies on economic inclusion and engaging in four networks/coalitions to promote inclusive economic systems. 
To enhance accessibility in financial and employment services, HI will develop at least one digital tool for coaching, job seeking, financial literacy, and business development. Additionally, HI will support microfinance institutions (MFIs) in enhancing disability inclusion, mobilize service providers in six countries to facilitate access to financial services, and contribute to global learning and best practices through the Community of Practice on financial inclusion.

HI commits to combating stigma and discrimination against persons with disabilities by integrating awareness-raising and empowerment activities into at least three projects by 2027, ensuring meaningful participation through partnerships with OPDs. 
HI will also promote the African Disability Rights Protocol by developing an awareness-raising package to support OPDs and local partners in advocating for its ratification and implementation by 2026. 
Additionally, HI will strengthen advocacy efforts by organizing at least five capacity-sharing workshops for OPDs by 2027, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to influence laws and policies that align with the CRPD.

HI commits to enhancing the accessibility of humanitarian aid for persons with disabilities by 2026. This includes developing tools to ensure emergency food security programs reach persons with disabilities and piloting WASH and health learning initiatives in at least four countries, training 40 emergency WASH actors and 30 emergency health actors to align with IASC guidelines.
Additionally, by 2027, HI will support at least 15 OPDs to take a leading role in humanitarian coordination through partnerships, small grants, and capacity-sharing initiatives in at least four countries, fostering inclusive humanitarian action and advocacy.

HI will ensure that accessibility is considered at strategic level and as part of all HI inclusion projects via a crosscutting approach, with the implementation of accessibility initiatives in at least 15 countries, over the next five years, using the intersectional approach for all accessibility projects, in line with its Disability-Gender and Age institutional policy.
 
Universal Design
HI will continue to advocate for the mainstreaming of universal design through inclusion networks, in collaboration with local Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, with the contribution to at least 10 strategical cross-sectoral initiatives at various levels in the next five years.

Digital Accessibility
As part of this effort, HI will also promote the development of digital accessibility in key sectors such as inclusive education and economic inclusion over the next five years, with the support to at least 10 actors committed to producing and sharing more accessible digital solutions or products in the next five years.