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Global Disability Inclusion Report

Global Disability Inclusion Report

March 28, 2025
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The Global Disability Inclusion Report: Accelerating Disability Inclusion in a Changing and Diverse World was developed specifically for the Global Disability Summit 2025. It provides an overview of how the profound changes shaping our world impact the diversity of persons with disabilities and pathways to address these changes and drive inclusion across all aspects of life.

The report is the result of a collaborative effort of several UN agencies, the International Disability Alliance and the International Disability and Development Consortium and their members, and academia. It has been funded mostly by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), with co-funding from the London Stock Exchange Group and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

What’s Inside the Report

  • Diversity of Persons with Disabilities and Inequalities: Examines the factors that affect the inclusion of persons with disabilities across the life cycle.
  • Structural Efforts for Inclusion: Reviews progress and challenges related to legal harmonization, national coordination, data systems, and public expenditures.
  • Global Trends – Challenges and Opportunities: Explores how global trends—such as climate change, technological advances, the evolving care and support economy, urbanization, migration, and humanitarian crises—impact the inclusion of persons with disabilities, and how these challenges can be addressed.
  • Key Enablers of Inclusion: Highlights strategies to tackle stigma and improve accessibility, care and support systems, access to assistive technology, and the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations.
  • Sector-Wide Inclusion: Provides practical recommendations for strengthening inclusion in education, healthcare, employment, and social protection across diverse contexts.
  • Financing Disability Inclusion: Explores pathways to optimize the use of domestic and international resources to finance the acceleration of disability inclusion at scale.

Available for download below:

The “Conference” (accessible PDF version upcoming) edition of the full report in English

The Executive summary in Arabic, English, French and Spanish

The Executive summary in English Easy Read

The final version of the report with more infographics, as well as all background papers that contributed to develop the report and related training material will be available prior to the 18th Conference of States parties to the CRPD in June 2025.

Documents:

GDIR Full Report
English, pdf, 7673375
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GDIR Executive Summary
English, pdf, 1806749
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GDIR Executive Summary – Easy Read version
English, pdf, 2717226
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GDIR Executive Summary_FR
French, pdf, 276551
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GDIR Executive Summary_AR
Arabic, pdf, 284066
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GDIR Executive Summary_ES
Spanish, pdf, 277133
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GDIR Executive Summary – Accessible version
English, pdf, 291668
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