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:

  • Country Implementation in Africa
  • Thematic Public Goods
  • Implementing the Global Report on AT
  • Mainstreaming AT

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

  • Frontier Tech playbook

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    Nov. 3, 2026
    Kenya
    Case Studies and Reports

    We are excited to publish the Electric Mobility Pilot playbook, the culmination of a three-year pilot funded by UK International Development through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The pilot brought together a consortium including MATT (Colombia), NeoMotion (India) and Kounkuey Design Initiative (Kenya), Ebikes Africa (Kenya) with Jionee Self Help Group as community partner in Nairobi and builds on evidence from the AT2030 programme.

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    Implementing WHO Learning on TAP: Lessons from Piloting TAP within Primary Health Care Systems in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda

    Mikaela Patrick, Rebecca Joskow, Lily Saunders, Jean Bosco Uwikirebera, Frank Chikhata, Lily Lu, Irene Bagahirwa, Ismaila Kebbie
    Sept. 30, 2026
    Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Liberia
    Academic Research Publications

    The World Health Organization (WHO) Learning on TAPTraining in Assistive Products (TAP for short) is an open access, online platform hosting modular courses on a range of health topics including assistive technology (AT) and sensory functions (eyes and ears). The training is delivered through a blended, self-paced learning approach. This learning paper examines implementation learnings and implications for scale up from three TAP pilots: 38 sites in Liberia (12), Rwanda (16), and Sierra Leone (10), distributing a total of 3,749 assistive products. The three pilots aimed to support training of primary and community-based healthcare workers on identification and provisions of AT

  • Imagining inclusive and resilient public spacesIllustrated park scenario titled 'Imagining Inclusive and Resilient Public Spaces', showing people with diverse disabilities using nine numbered features: 1. permeable, even-surfaced walkways; 2. clear, accessible signage; 3. accessible, shaded community spaces; 4. wheelchair-friendly boardwalk with pause points; 5. accessible multi-functional dry pond; 6. step-free mist tents; 7. multi-height community gardens; 8. shaded, accessible play equipment; 9. heat-block coated accessible furniture. Cover Image

    Making Our Way Out of the Heat: Co-Designing Inclusive and Resilient Infrastructure

    Bala Nagendran
    Sept. 29, 2026
    Global

    With predictions for a more intense El Niño (a natural climate pattern that raises the surface water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and drives hotter weather conditions globally) between October and December 2026, this blog is a reminder of the challenges at the intersection of climate risks, urban infrastructure, and disability, and the need to collaborate and co-design. This draws on GDI Hub’s recently published Inclusive Climate Infrastructure Design Playbook.

  • Inclusive Climate Infrastructure Design recording

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    Sept. 28, 2026
    Global

    The Inclusive Climate Infrastructure Design Playbook provides a foundation for continued discussion and collaboration on how we can shape urban environments that are both resilient to climate change and inclusive of people with disabilities.

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    From Playbook to Practice: Mainstreaming Inclusive Climate Infrastructure Design

    Global Disability Innovation Hub
    Sept. 22, 2026
    2:00- 3:30 PM (BST)
    Global

    The session will explore what it takes to move from principles to practice in designing and delivering infrastructure that is both disability-inclusive and climate-resilient. It will provide a starting point for practitioners, policymakers, designers, researchers and others to consider how inclusive approaches can be embedded across the development of cities and infrastructure globally.