Activist from across Asia and Africa are Leading their Work.
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Shifting Power means Giving Up Power
Rose Tesha is Africa Regional Director at ADD International. In this piece Rose reflects on what she has learnt through ADD’s transition to become a participatory grant-maker, and why shifting power and decision making to disability justice activists means giving up power herself. What has changed. Before ADD became a participatory grant-maker, my role was…
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Co-chairs
Introducing Yetneberesh and Liz. We are excited to announce our new Co-Chairs of our board of trustees, Liz Sayce and Yetneberesh Nigussie Molla. They will work together to lead our board and guide ADD in our work for disability justice. With the spirit of amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities, I am delighted to…
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we celebrate the changemakers leading the fight for inclusion, accessibility, and justice. At ADD International, we don’t just support disability justice activists with funding, we support them to decide how resources are used to create real, lasting impact in their communities. …
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Partnering with Financial Times
Earlier this year, young disability justice leaders took part in training from the Financial Times. Through this online programme young leaders learnt about marketing, personal branding, use of social media as an advocacy tool, networking, IT, and interview skills. Young disabled people are often excluded from employment, and this training aimed to support them to…
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The role that fundraisers can play in creating a fairer funding system.
A blog by Sabina Basi, Director of Funding, Communications and Transformative Partnerships at ADD International. Originally published by Alliance Magazine. ADD International recently finalised its fourth strategic partnership; bringing the total amount of unrestricted funding for Mtiririko; our new strategy to channel power and resources to disability justice activists, to just under £4 million. When I first…
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Ford Foundation Partnership.
Announcing our strategic partnership with the Ford Foundation. ADD International is delighted to announce a 5-year strategic partnership with the Ford Foundation, as a BUILD partner! The Ford Foundation is one of the largest funders and advocates of disability justice, which is at the heart of our work and our new strategy, Mtiririko. The BUILD…
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Sreyoun
Income for Independence. Srey Oun, 23 years old, is a woman with a disability who is part of Vannet’s group. She is currently dependent on family but would love to set up her own small business and become independent. “I remember when Vannet came to my house and explained about the women and children with…
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Samoeun
Growing an independent income. Samoueng has a physical disability and is also part of the group. She is 47 years old and lives with her husband and young daughter. She grows vegetables to feed her family and also sells some to earn a living. She is a mentor to younger women in the group. “In…
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Players of Postcode Lottery supporting disability justice.
Supporting disability justice through participatory grant-making. We are delighted to receive an award from Postcode Justice Trust thanks to the funds raised by Postcode Lottery players, a total of £1,300,000 to date. These funds are supporting our work in Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Ghana to resource disabled people’s activism and nurture their leadership. …
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Joy, a disability justice activist reflects on Mtiririko.
ADD’s engagement with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) to review Mtiririko. Recently, ADD engaged disability justice activists and organizations of persons with disabilities in the review of its new strategic framework, Mtiririko. The strategy highlights ADD’s journey so far and who we are now with a focus of shifting the flow of power and…
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Womens Fund Nominations
Nominate yourself or others to help design the women with disabilities grant. Overview. We are looking to work with six women with disabilities from Uganda, Tanzania and Ghana to design our newest round of funding aimed at supporting women with disabilities and their movements to work on ratification of the African Disability Protocol. Nominations Self-nominations…
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strategy
Our new Strategy for Disability Justice. We are excited to launch our new strategy! This is an overview of our approach for the next 10 years. We’ve named our strategy Mtiririko, which is a Swahili word meaning ‘flow’, because at the centre of it is the desire to see resources flow directly to disability justice…
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Mtiririko – ADD New Strategy Launch Webinar
How do you truly shift power to activists? We held a webinar on 19th March 2024 to discuss our new strategy, “Mtiririko.” meaning “Flow.” At the event, our Co-CETOs Mary Ann Clements and Fredrick Ouko shared about the strategy and how our new approach will shift power to disability justice activists. “We want to give…
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Championing Inclusive Education
We have been working with organisations of persons with disabilities to make education more accessible for disabled children. ADD, together with Sightsavers, Sense International, Tanzania Cheshire Foundation, and Light for the World, has been working on a project called Inclusive Futures. The aim of this project is to work with organisations of persons with disabilities…
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Power does not shift easily.
A blog by Fredrick Ouko and Mary Ann Clements, Co-Chief Executive Transformation Officers, ADD International. Originally published by Alliance Magazine. The call to shift power is at least a generation old. Yet little progress has been made. There will be many reasons for this but perhaps the simplest explanation is that transformation is hard because power doesn’t…
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New Years Resolutions
What are our New Year’s Resolutions for Disability Justice? This year we are committed to funding and supporting disability justice movements, shifting power to them, and mentorship of young leaders with disability. This will be achieved by ensuring that organisations of persons with disabilities and disability justice activists are given the power to decide how…
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Participatory Grant Making TZ
Young Disability Justice Activists Decide. In 2023 ADD International in partnership with Bournemouth University, ran a pilot participatory grant-making round with young disability justice activists in Tanzania. Over a three-day festival, the young people developed and shared their ideas, which were judged by a panel of their peers. Young disabled people themselves decided which ideas…