2024 Annual Report.
Welcome to our 2024 Annual Report. This year, we spotlight the progress and impact of disability justice organisations and activists across the world, whose leadership continues to shape disability justice.
Photo: Ayidah, a farmer under the 100% Homegrown project in Uganda.
A note from our Co-CEOs
2024 has been a defining year for ADD International. A year of deep reflection, renewal, and forward movement.
We marked the launch of our new ten-year strategy, Mtiririko – a Swahili word meaning flow, which captures our vision of a world where power, resources, and opportunity flow equitably to disability justice movements. Throughout the year, we have seen this vision come to life through the creativity and leadership of disability justice activists who continue to drive change around the world.
At ADD International, our focus has remained clear: shifting power to disability-led movements. Our gratitude goes to all who have supported us in this journey. Our partners, supporters, staff, and, above all, the disability leaders driving this transformation. Your trust and collaboration continue to shape what is possible.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
With appreciation,
Fredrick & Mary Ann.
Chief Executive Officers, ADD International
Fredrick Ouko and Mary Ann Clements.
A note from our Board Chairs.
As we look back on 2024, we are proud to see the bold vision of ADD International’s new strategy, Mtiririko, come to life. This year has shown what is possible when leadership and change truly flow from the disability justice movement itself.
From launching the Disability Justice Fund for Women, co-designed by women with disabilities in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania to supporting disabled women entrepreneurs in Cambodia, we have witnessed how disability-led initiatives can reshape communities and open doors to opportunity. We have also seen disabled farmers growing their own food and building sustainable livelihoods in Uganda, and our partnerships in Bangladesh and Tanzania have continued to make education more inclusive for children with disabilities.
As a Board, our role is to ensure that ADD International stays accountable to this mission, strengthening governance, ensuring financial resilience, and supporting a global team deeply rooted in our shared values.
As we move forward, we remain committed to guiding ADD International through this new chapter and ensuring that Mtiririko fulfils its promise: a world where power, resources, and opportunity truly flow to disability justice activists everywhere.
Yeti & Liz
Board Chairs, ADD International
Launching Our New Strategy – Mtiririko.
In 2024, we launched our new 10-year strategy called Mtiririko.
We developed this strategy by listening to disability justice activists across Africa and Asia. Through conversations, workshops, and reflection sessions, we learned from their experiences and priorities.
The name Mtiririko means “flow” in Swahili. It reflects our shared vision of a world where power and resources flow directly to disability justice activists and organisations leading change.
Creating Mtiririko was a learning journey for us. It pushed us to rethink how ADD International works — moving away from old models of development and towards a more inclusive and fair way of working together. It also helped strengthen our global relationships and reminded us to always be guided by lived experience in every decision we make.
Looking ahead, Mtiririko will shape our work over the next decade by guiding how we support disability justice movements, grow leadership, and push for fairer funding for disability justice.
Joy, a disability justice activist from Uganda reflects on ADD International’s new strategy, Mtiririko.
She says:
“This is a good strategy. I believe it will empower people with disabilities to decide on which projects they want to implement and how to implement them. A person without a disability may not know the issues or challenges people with disabilities face. It makes more sense for a person with disability to lead and advocate for disability justice because they have lived experience”
Supporting Disabled Women Entrepreneurs in Cambodia.
In 2024, we launched the #UnlockIndependence appeal with BBC Radio 4 in Cambodia to support disabled women entrepreneurs start small business to help them earn a sustainable independent income.
The appeal helped raise money to support organisations like Vannet’s in Cambodia and with a grant from ADD, Vannet has been supporting her group to start small businesses, enabling members to earn a sustainable, independent income.
Srey Oun and Chou Ry (pictured below) are part of Vannet’s group. Srey Oun has started a small business doing tailoring while Chou Ry started a grocery stall. This is helping them earn some money to support themselves.
Thank you for your continued support towards disability justice.
Background image: Srey Oun
The Disability Justice Fund for Women.
We launched the Disability Justice Fund for Women in 2024. This fund was designed by women with disabilities in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, to make sure it meets the real needs of disability justice activists in these countries.
Grants have been given out to grassroots organisations led by women with disabilities – a group that are often overlooked when it comes to funding. Currently, the money is being used by grantees in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda to support their work advocating for justice and equality and supporting the African Disability Protocol – a framework for disability justice in Africa, as well as activities like income generation, making spaces more accessible, and strengthening disability justice movements to work together.
This grant was jointly designed, and decisions were made in collaboration between the ADD International team and women with disabilities.
Adwoa, the ADD International Coordinator Ghana (not a decision-maker on the fund) speaks about the fund.
She says:
“The fund seeks to contribute to a more just and inclusive society where all individuals, regardless of their disabilities, have equal opportunities.
“The involvement of disabled women from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania in designing the fund and selecting grantees is crucial because it ensures cultural relevance. The fund has been tailored to address the specific needs and challenges faced by disabled women in these countries.”
Background Image: Nyamizi, Disability Justice Activist, Tanzania.
Acknowledgement of Support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
We are grateful for the support received from
players of People’s Postcode Lottery, with a funding total of £800,000. These funds have supported our work in resourcing disabled people’s activism and nurturing their leadership.
Disability justice activists and organisations of persons with disabilities received participatory grants that allowed them to decide how best to use the funds. This approach ensured that resources addressed their real needs and challenges, improving their livelihoods and wellbeing.
100% Homegrown.
Thank you to everyone who supported our 100% Homegrown appeal.
With your help, disabled farmers in Uganda were able to grow their own vegetables to earn an income and improve their livelihoods.
“I sell some of the vegetables to members in my community and get money which I save with a local women’s saving group. From the group savings, I have been able to purchase two goats. These reproduced, I sold them and now bought two cows. My home has changed for the better financially and in terms of diet. I am no longer spending money to buy vegetables. I instead get them from my kitchen garden.”
– Zaina, Disability Justice Activist, Uganda.
Background image: Ivan, one of the farmers under the 100% Homegrown project and a disability justice activist from Uganda.
Championing Inclusive Education.
In 2024, we worked with organisations of persons with disabilities in Bangladesh and Tanzania to make education more accessible for children with disabilities.
Everyone deserves access to education, yet disability discrimination often gets in the way. Organisations of persons with disabilities and activists know best how this can be overcome, and we are proud to have supported them on this project. Their focus was advocacy to reduce discrimination, making the school environment more accessible, and a focus on learning at home and in families.
This project also won a 2024 Zero Project Award for the consortium’s work on meaningful engagement with organisations of people with disabilities across inclusive education projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria and Tanzania. The award was presented at the Zero Awards annual conference at the United Nations in Vienna, from 21-23 February 2024.
“I have been working in this Disability Inclusive Education project from the beginning with ADD International Bangladesh. This is a great chance for me as I am working for children with disabilities. Being a disabled member in my community, I feel very lucky because I can support parents of children with disabilities to bring their children to schools.”
Al Amin, OPD Leader, Bangladesh.
2024 Financial Overview
£3,494,208
TOTAL INCOME
£2,702,918
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
| Unrestricted funds £ | Restricted Funds £ | 2024 Total funds £ | 2023 Total funds £ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income from | Grants, donations and legacies | 1,768,298 | 30,006 | 1,798,304 | 873,808 |
| Interest receivable | 4,333 | – | 4,333 | 3,051 | |
| Charitable activities | 4,000 | 1,677,714 | 1,681,714 | 1,623,315 | |
| Other income | 9,857 | – | 9,857 | 910 | |
| Total income | 1,786,488 | 1,707,720 | 3,494,208 | 2,501,084 | |
| Expenditure on | Raising funds | 400,962 | – | 400,962 | 347,654 |
| Support of the International Disability Movement | 850,269 | 1,451,687 | 2,301,956 | 2,279,139 | |
| Total expenditure | 1,251,231 | 1,451,687 | 2,702,918 | 2,626,793 | |
| Net income / (expenditure) | 535,257 | 256,033 | 791,290 | (125,709) | |
| Transfers between funds | (17,368) | 17,368 | – | – | |
| Net movement in funds | 517,889 | 273,401 | 791,290 | (125,709) | |
| Fund balances at 1 January | 399,443 | 322,496 | 721,939 | 847,648 | |
| Fund balances 31 December | 917,332 | 595,897 | 1,513,229 | 721,939 |
For our full audited 2024 accounts, please see: add.org.uk/annual-reports
Thank you to our Supporters!
Thank you to our amazing supporters for supporting disability activists and their organisations to bring about vital social change. A special thank you in particular to:
- Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic
- Equity LSE
- Bournemouth University
- CAFOD
- Comic Relief
- DT Global
- Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- EA Foundation
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Ford Foundation
- Players of People’s Postcode Lottery
- Wellspring Philanthropic Trust
- Open Society Foundation
- Robert Bosch Foundation
- See You Foundation
- United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
- United Nations Women Fund
- United GMH