How our Advisory Services work

We work in partnership with the disability movement, including local, national, and international OPDs, because it’s essential these voices guide everything we do. In addition, our advisory services are informed by world-leading technical expertise. For example in mental health, community-based inclusive development, eye health, neglected tropical diseases, climate resilience and humanitarian response.

We know that clear, practical advice, shared with the right people at the right time, leads to real change. This means change in how policies are made, how services are delivered and whose voices are heard and valued. By taking this approach, we’ll help you ensure the rights of people with disabilities are considered across all programmes, both in development and humanitarian settings.

We have expertise in:

• Accessibility and reasonable accommodation

• Disability-inclusive data collection and analysis

• Encouraging participation and accountability

• Awareness raising and attitudinal change

• Partnering with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs)

CBM UK’s Disability Inclusion Advisory Work is guided by eight principles.

Tailored and flexible engagement: we respond to your context, needs and priorities to make sure the recommendations we make are relevant to you and that you can own them.

Grounded in rights and standards: by working with us, you can be confident that our advice aligns with international human rights frameworks, including the UNCRPD, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Charter for Change.

Evidence-informed and practice-orientated: we generate, translate and share knowledge to drive learning and inform decision-making.

Focused on enabling, not replacing: we build confidence and skills within an organisation so that you can lead your inclusive change.

Collaborative and cross-disciplinary: you’ll benefit from our unique combination of technical, policy and lived experience.

Creating space for OPD engagement: we act as facilitators and allies, supporting OPDs to engage meaningfully in policy and programming.

Multi-level engagement: no matter how complex your system, we work from grassroots to global level to create enabling environments for inclusion.

Co-creation with the disability movement: we ensure that inclusion is not done to or for people with disabilities, but with them, every step of the way.