5. Integrate

Strengthen systems to make inclusion a reality.

We’ll embed disability innovation into national policy landscapes, stimulating demand, activating country pilots and creating enabling markets environment in Low-and Middle- Income Countries.

A new country office Africa (Rwanda) will build impact and partnership, exploring new opportunities for insight, knowledge and research - testing country implementation and providing technical assistance across AT2030 priority countries.

We’ll explore the intersecting challenges to enabling environment for AT access experienced by disabled people, with a focus on inclusive cities and infrastructure, climate and crisis resilience, and gender. Building evidence and driving action we’ll develop a global strategy on Inclusive Climate Resilient Infrastructure - creating a model of technical support and a city pilot for inclusive climate solutions with equity at it's core.

Continuing to work with WHO to deliver the commitments in the Global Report on AT, we will support the development of the Global Guidelines on Provision of AT, implementing country-led strategies and the roll-out of WHO’s Training in Assistive Products (TAP) at a national level.

We’ll also research the impact of incorporating AT products in the UNICEF catalogue and action plan to further accelerate impact to mainstream AT supply.

Sub-programmes:

A group photo of participants during the Disability Innovation summit

Sub-Programmes

  • Thematic Public Goods: This sub-programme explores the intersecting and systemic challenges experienced by disabled people in AT access, looking at enabling environments.

Latest

  • Climate Infrastructure Design Playbook page Cover Image

    Inclusive Climate Infrastructure Design Playbook

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    June 23, 2026
    Global
    AT2030 Resources

    Inclusive climate infrastructure design is an approach to co-designing physical spaces, services, and systems that anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to changing climate conditions while simultaneously enabling accessibility and equal participation for all people, particularly people with disabilities. Such infrastructure can prevent, absorb, recover from, and adapt to disruptions caused by current and future climate risks while strengthening the resilience capacity of people with disabilities.

  • Addis Ababa at World Urban Forum 13

    Shivani Gupta
    June 10, 2026
    Azerbaijan

    For the Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), participation in the WUF is important for sharing our work and learning from others about inclusive cities. Considering our ongoing Inclusive City Pilot Project in Addis Ababa, this year we invited and supported the participation of Abayneh Gujo, Executive Director of the Federation of Ethiopian Associations of Persons with Disabilities, and Mahmoud Kedir Reshid, Persons with Disabilities Social Rehabilitation Senior Expert at the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs of Ethiopia, to accompany the GDI Hub delegation at World Urban Forum 13 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

  • Accesssibility 2030 Pavilion in Azerbaijan

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    May 18, 2026
    Azerbaijan

    Baku, Azerbaijan, 17 May 2026. The Accessibility 2030 Pavilion will return to the World Urban Forum (WUF) when WUF13 opens its doors in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 17 to 22 May 2026. Building on the historic momentum generated at WUF12 in Cairo, the Pavilion once again creates a dedicated space to explore the role of accessibility and disability inclusion in ‘Housing the World’.

  • WUF 13 banner Cover Image

    Accessibility 2030 Pavilion

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    May 13, 2026
    Azerbaijan

    Join us at the Accessibility 2030 Pavilion at WUF in Baku, Azerbaijan, and be part of this historic moment as we work together to shape the future of accessible urban design!

  • group of people, including several using wheelchairs, pose for a group photo in a classroom-style training room with laptops on tables and a presentation projected on the screen behind them. Cover Image

    Nepal recognizes wheelchair users and people with disability to become a certified wheelchair technicians.

    RAM CHANDRA THAPA
    March 4, 2026
    Nepal
    Case Studies and Reports

    A month long hybrid training on “Wheelchair Service Provision, Repair and Maintenance” is successfully completed in Kathmandu, Nepal. Today, representatives from the Ministry of Health and Population (Nepal), GDI Hub, ISWP, Motivation India, Centre for Disabled Children Assistance (CDCA), Sundar Dhoka Sathi Sewa (SDSS) wrapped up the training program with a closing ceremony event.