Equity, diversity and inclusion

How co-development is helping to transform learning through play for children with deafblindness and complex disabilities. A collaboration between Right to Play and Sense International.

It is Carers Week, a time to raise awareness of unpaid care, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise their contribution to families and communities.

A new issue of the IDS Bulletin examines the key issues the development sector must consider to ensure programmes and research meaningfully include people with disabilities. How can we make sure no one is left behind?

When we listen to Persons with Disabilities’ expertise, programmes become more responsive, relevant and grounded in lived experience. That’s why disability-led organisations have co-created a new visual resource to show what inclusive development should look like and how to make it happen.

We hear from people with disabilities in Bangladesh, Nepal and Kenya who are showing what locally led change means in action. How is participatory storytelling powering locally led disability rights work?

Equity, diversity and inclusion are not peripheral to the crises in international development, but central to both the problems we face and the solution.

It has now been a year since the 2024 race riots erupted across the UK, a powerful and painful reminder of the racial injustice that continues to shape our society. As we reflect, we must ask ourselves: what has really shifted in the past 12 months?