GLAD Network

The Global Action on Disability Network works to enhance the inclusion of persons with disabilities in international development and humanitarian action.

[日本財団 @NipponZaidan]

【日本財団職員 現地レポート：令和8年千葉豪雨支援（10月6日）📝】

千葉県では8月の豪雨に加え、9月の台風25号やその前後に続いた長雨の影響により、県内の広い範囲で浸水被害や土砂災害が発生しました。

住宅の被害件数は1万件を超え、関東では近年まれに見る規模の災害となっています。

千葉県佐倉市では、NPO法人災害支援光輝が、浸水した住宅の床下に潜り、泥の撤去や排水作業を実施。被災された方々が再び安心して自宅で暮らせるよう、復旧活動を続けています。

日本財団は、皆さまからお預かりしたご寄付を活用し、現地で活動するNPOなどへの助成を通して、被災地の復旧・復興を後押ししています⬇��
https://t.co/J0zVwB1R4d

[Global Disability Fund @UN_GDF]

New policy brief: Investing in Care, Investing in Tanzania. 🇹🇿
Developed through the @UN_GDF Unpaid Care, Disability & Gender Transformative Approach Programme and seed funded by @GAC_Corporate

Policy brief: https://t.co/v4Zd2UIstz

Unpaid Care programme:
https://t.co/zjjQoiNqBD

[ATscale @_ATscale]

📢 Have a project or experience to improve access to #AssistiveTechnology in Africa?

🌍 Join the #ATExpoAfrica2027 Call for Papers webinar!

📅 28 Oct | 12h CET
🌐 English & French
💡 Learn how to submit your contribution.

🔗 Register: https://t.co/x4EhfArFfS

[211 Ontario @211Ontario]

Asking for help shows strength. On World Mental Health Day, remember support is here. 📞 Dial 2-1-1, 💬 chat, or 🌐 visit https://t.co/qafCUz4JFd #211Ontario #HelpStartsHere #WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

Every girl should be free to learn, grow and shape her own future.

Yet for millions of girls, child marriage continues to limit those possibilities. Education can help change that.

Over the past 2 years, @UNESCO programmes advancing #GenderEquality in education have reached 38M+ learners.

This #DayOfTheGirl, we call for renewed commitment to every girl’s right to learn, work, decide freely and shape her own future.

https://t.co/zYSdLr4HTn

[UN Girls' Education Initiative @UNGEI]

Girl leaders have a message: keeping girls in school requires more than enrolment. It requires investment, protection, safe spaces and listening to girls themselves

Read what these girl leaders want the world to know:
🔗https://t.co/AaolYRrScJ

#InternationalDayoftheGirl

[GLAD Network @GLAD_Net]

Mental health is part of everyone’s well-being, and disability inclusion means making sure everyone is respected, supported and able to participate. Let’s work together and build communities where people can be included and thrive. #MentalHealth #DisabilityInclusion

[Inclusion Canada @InclusionCA]

Our fifth public policy recommendation for this session of Parliament focuses on inclusive employment.

Ready, Willing and Able (RWA) is one of Canada’s most successful inclusive employment initiatives. Delivered nationally by Inclusion Canada and the Autism Alliance of Canada, RWA has helped facilitate more than 6,500 jobs for people with intellectual disabilities and people with autism across every province and territory.

RWA works with employers throughout the hiring process—helping them strengthen their inclusive recruitment practices, connect with qualified job seekers and create the conditions for lasting employment success.

But continued progress requires continued investment.

We are calling on the Government of Canada in the upcoming federal budget to commit to further investing in the program over the next five years, beginning in 2027, to continue and expand Ready, Willing and Able.

Renewing RWA will help more people with intellectual disabilities and autistic people find meaningful employment—and help more Canadian employers access talent, strengthen their workforces and build inclusive workplaces.

Learn more about RWA and join us in calling for renewed federal funding: https://t.co/PInMRj6s81

@AllianceAutism

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

Did the recent hot weather affect you?

This could include your health, home, money, medication, or the support you receive.

DR UK's Heatwave Survey is now online. Please take a few minutes to tell us about your experience using our Easy Read survey 👇
https://t.co/229v9yRL7F

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

Did the recent heatwaves negatively affect your health? home? finances? medication? care?
The Disability Rights UK Heatwave Survey is now online!
Please take a few minutes to share your experience in our survey to help us to make the case for change:
https://t.co/HdV1CMb2Pq

[International Disability Alliance (IDA) @IDA_CRPD_Forum]

Inclusive equality in every aspect of life: Understanding and using the CRPD Committee’s Guidelines on identifying and addressing intersectional discrimination against girls, adolescents, women and older women with disabilities (2026) https://t.co/6Qz9eFcelF

[ATscale @_ATscale]

Advocacy turns awareness into action. 🌍

In 2025, ATscale worked to put #AssistiveTechnology higher on the global agenda, bringing evidence and the voices of AT users to global conversations.

📖 Annual Review: https://t.co/gdlN7b0KsF

#ATChangesLives

[Inclusion Canada @InclusionCA]

Ableism isn’t always obvious.

It can show up in attitudes, assumptions, policies, systems, and everyday interactions. And whether it’s intentional or not, the impact can be exclusion. This is Ableism is a campaign created with people with disabilities and their families to help us recognize ableism and understand its impact.

Because we can’t challenge what we don’t see.

▶️ Watch the video and start the conversation.
https://t.co/gITWzSLg5w

#ThisIsAbleism #InclusionCanada #DisabilityInclusion #EndAbleism

[ATscale @_ATscale]

On #WorldHumanitarianDay, Aung Moe’s story shows why #AssistiveTechnology matters in emergencies.

After Myanmar’s 2025 earthquake, a wheelchair provided through ATscale’s AT Kits, deployed by @UNICEF, helped restore his mobility and independence.

📖 https://t.co/gdlN7b0KsF

[GLAD Network @GLAD_Net]

This #WorldHumanitarianDay, as the world calls for protecting those who provide and receive humanitarian assistance, President of the OPD Fundación Vanessa Peretti, takes us to the heart of the earthquake response in Venezuela.
@IDA_CRPD_Forum
read more ⏩https://t.co/dyN9UicuPX

[Inclusion Canada @InclusionCA]

“It’s not just a disability program.  It is workforce development. It is economic participation and it is really good, smart public policy”

Great remarks by Julie Smith, executive director with the PEI Association for Community Living. Julie talked with host Louise Martin on CBC Compass TV on the positive impacts of the Ready, Willing and Able (RWA) Program.

RWA works with both employers and people with intellectual disabilities and autism and has resulted in 6,300 job opportunities – including 110 across Prince Edward island.

As Smith points out, these weren’t “special jobs” but are current, operational roles that employers needed to recruit for. RWA demonstrates people with intellectual disabilities and autism are a great fit as employees for businesses of all sizes and sectors.

RWA is a national initiative by Inclusion Canada and the Autism Alliance of Canada and supported by the Government of Canada.

You can watch the interview here:
https://t.co/ZBeQVrIcwJ

@AllianceAutism

[International Labour Organization @ilo]

Youth employment is about more than jobs.

It's about creating pathways to decent work, with security, dignity and opportunity.

📉Discover the latest youth employment trends: https://t.co/KB13OV0p5m

[International Disability Alliance (IDA) @IDA_CRPD_Forum]

20 years after the adoption of the #CRPD, the work to turn its promise into reality continues.

Opening the 35th session of the CRPD Committee, IDA President Nawaf Kabbara reaffirmed a central message: OPDs are rights holders, partners and essential actors in holding States accountable.

As new challenges emerge, from AI and climate change to humanitarian crises, the CRPD must remain our foundation.

20 years on, our responsibility is not simply to preserve what has been achieved. It is to make it real. #LetsMakeItOurs #CRPD20

[UNFPA Independent Evaluation Office @unfpa_eval]

How can evaluation innovate to accelerate learning in humanitarian action amidst escalating crises?

Next Future of Evaluation dialogue will mark #WorldHumanitarianDay with experts from Anera, ALNAP, IOD PARC, AfrEA & our office

Register✍️https://t.co/zVN8yoR5Kg

#Eval4Action

[Global Disability Fund @UN_GDF]

📢 New Funding Opportunity: Ukraine's Cities: Inclusive by Design 🇺🇦

Call for Proposals to advance disability-inclusive relief, recovery, and reconstruction across Ukraine.

📅 Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 10 August 2026

Learn more and apply: https://t.co/AL39vw9Qic