Past Event
UK Global Disability Summit
Photo credit: Christian Blind Mission UK (https://www.cbmuk.org.uk/news/5783/)
DFID’s vision for disability inclusion is: ‘to ensure people with disabilities are consistently and systematically included in international development and humanitarian assistance’. In July 2018, a Global Disability Summit was hosted to galvanise the global effort to address disability inclusion in the poorest countries in the world and act as the start point for major change on this neglected issue.
The objectives of the Summit were to:
- raise global attention and focus on a neglected area;
- bring in new voices and approaches to broaden engagement;
- mobilise new global and national commitments on disability; and,
- showcase best practice and evidence from across the world.