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
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.
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Strengthening OPD Capacity for Inclusive Development in Nairobi County, Kenya
Kilimanjaro Blind TrustMarch 25, 2026KenyaCase Studies and ReportsThe Nairobi workshop revealed a system already in motion. OPDs are adapting, questioning, and beginning to reimagine inclusion in practical terms. With the support of a structured capacity-building framework, this momentum can be sustained and scaled, positioning OPDs not just as participants but as drivers of inclusive development in Nairobi and beyond.
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Innovation for Inclusion: marking the 2026 Winter Paralympics with a Disability Sport reception in Rome
Global Disability Innovation HubMarch 24, 2026ItalyLast week the Global Disability Innovation Hub were delighted to join David Burton OBE, British Chargé d’Affaires Ad Interim to Italy, at the British Ambassador’s Residence, Villa Wolkonsky in Rome for a reception on inclusive participation and the power of disability sports legacy. With opening addresses by the Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, UK Minister for Social Security and Disability and Hon. Alessandra Locatelli, Italian Minister for Disabilities the reception and panel reflected on participation and its role in stigma reduction. Highlighting the barriers, particularly those additional challenges faced by low- middle- income countries (LMICs), the panel considered the role of governance, policy, infrastructure and the media.
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Beyond Stigma Workshop - ideas, learning and sharing
Loughborough UniversityJan. 27, 2026Case Studies and ReportsThe 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.
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Beyond Stigma: What happens when sport, assistive technology and storytelling meet
Jennie WongDec. 30, 2025GlobalThis 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.
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OPD Country Level Strategy for Kenya
Global Disability Innovation HubDec. 19, 2025KenyaAT2030 ResourcesThe 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.