Inclusion Works

IDA is a core partner of the Inclusion Works project, a consortium project led by Sightsavers and funded by the DFID UK Aid Connect fund. The focus of the Inclusion Works programme is “how can more people with disabilities be included in/access formal waged employment?” The programme aims to engage a wide group of stakeholders including a diversity of people with disabilities through their representative organisations (DPOs), governments as employers and duty bearers, private sector as employers and influencers, as well as other key groups. The programme seeks to test models of inclusive employment practice and generate robust evidence and data which can be used to influence at a national, regional and global level. IDA will be particularly involved in a component of the Inclusion Works (IW) project which aims to produce and jointly advocate for models of employment that are compliant with the CRPD and inclusive of all groups of persons with disabilities. This will contribute to theIW project’s broader goal of long-term improved inclusion of persons with disabilities and realization of their human rights through improved access to employment.