The key objective of the Global Disability Summit was to deliver ambitious new global and national level commitments on disability inclusion.
National governments and other organisations made 170 sets of commitments around the four central themes of the Summit as well as the two cross-cutting themes.
Read the summary of those 170 sets of commitments below.
Across the Global Disability Summit process, one message is becoming increasingly clear. Youth with disabilities are not waiting for systems to catch up. They are already shaping how accountability, follow-up, and implementation work in practice.…
Education continues to be one of the most powerful drivers of inclusion, yet for millions of learners with disabilities, access remains limited. The Global Disability Summit (GDS) 2025 renewed the call to make education systems…
Data is often described as the foundation of evidence-based policymaking but for many persons with disabilities, the data simply does not exist, is outdated, or not used. Across countries, where information is available, it frequently…