1. Include

Creating deep community leadership and engagement.

We’ll amplify stories and knowledge driving inclusion through partnerships, networks and DPOs.

With advocacy and engagement across key sporting and cultural moments, we’ll empower for change in collaboration with AT users and the disability innovation community.

Co-developing storytelling narratives for social change we’ll challenge stigma, while building knowledge and understanding by testing and scaling community engagement strategies to accelerate impact. Our Para-Sport Against Stigma programme will explore new and innovative ways of to amplify para sport activity and drive change as we power change through dissemination.

We will develop a network of Disabled Peoples Organisations (DOPs) aligning to Assistive Technology – developing foundational knowledge on what’s available within each country. By designing research alongside these DPOs, we’ll work collaboratively to address AT access, while building mechanisms for AT user engagement.

Using digital, social, and participatory events across our programmes we will maximise knowledge dissemination, build collaborative opportunities, transfer knowledge capital and advocate for change across emerging and established audiences.

Include sub programmes: 

  • Para-Sport Against Stigma 
  • DPO and AT User Engagement 
  • Sector Events and Engagement 
  • Amplification of the Paralympics 

Para athletes during a training session in Malawi

Sub-Programmes

  • Para Sport Against Stigma: Para Sport Against Stigma (PSAS) is a research and innovation project exploring how Para and disability sport can be used to understand and shift disability stigma. Part of the FCDO-funded AT2030 programme, the project began by examining how Paralympic broadcasting could influence public perceptions across Sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with the International Paralympic Committee.

Latest

  • Text graphic illistration captured during the para sport workshop - creating graphic narrative of a rich ideas session. Cover Image

    Beyond Stigma Workshop - ideas, learning and sharing

    Loughborough University
    Jan. 27, 2026
    Case Studies and Reports

    The Beyond Stigma knowledge sharing workshop created a conversation that moved beyond awareness or attitude to focus on how stigma is produced through systems, and what that means for efforts to address it. Capturing reflections, experiences and learnings from the AT2030 Para Sport Against Stigma programme, the event provided an opportunity to step back and reflect - as is captured by the visual illustration of the disussions.

  • Text graphic illistration captured during the para sport workshop - creating graphic narrative of a rich ideas session. Cover Image

    Beyond Stigma: What happens when sport, assistive technology and storytelling meet

    Jennie Wong
    Jan. 23, 2026
    Global

    This article reflects on the Para Sport Against Stigma AT2030 programme, as global partners, experts, innovators and advocates joined together in London to share learnings. This piece explore how change rarely comes from a single breakthrough. More often, it comes from sustained attention, and from communities willing to sit with complexity and imagine systems differently.

  • OPD Country Level Strategy for Kenya

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    Dec. 19, 2025
    Kenya
    AT2030 Resources

    The primary aim of this project is to develop an OPD Country Level Strategy for Kenya, titled: ‘How can technology support OPDs to build capacity, impact and influence’ - through a lens of Assistive Technologies which will include an OPD Capacity Building Framework co-created by OPDs.

  • Panelists during the Inclusive Employment: Advancing Access to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities session Cover Image

    Inclusive Employment: Advancing Access to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities

    Louise Gebbett
    Nov. 6, 2025
    United Arab Emirates
    Case Studies and Reports

    At the Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha the GDI Hub joined a diverse and brilliant panel to explore 'Inclusive Employment: Advancing Access to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities.'  Co-hosted by the UK Government, GDI Hub, ATscale, the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Disability Alliance, United Disabled Persons of Kenya, and Fatma Aljassim the session showcased how disability-inclusive livelihood interventions and AT can lead to decent work opportunities.

  • Second World Summit for Social Development: Inclusive Employment: Advancing Access to Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities

    UK International Development
    Nov. 5, 2025
    15:00-16:15
    Qatar

    This solution-focused side event at the Second World Summit for Social Development will explore how to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in decent work. It will present global evidence on inequalities in employment in low- and- middle- income- countries (LMICs) and learnings from programmes that seek to strengthen the livelihoods of persons with disabilities. It will highlight the experiences of people with disabilities from the Global South.