ADD International is a UK-based international NGO that works as a major ally to the disability movement in Asia and Africa. Our vision is a world where all disabled people are free from discrimination and oppression, enjoying equality within an inclusive society. ADD?s mission is to achieve positive and lasting change in the lives of disabled people, especially those living in poverty, to ensure that: disabled people?s organizations are stronger and better able to realize their members' rights and to tackle poverty and exclusion; individual disabled people are empowered to transform their own lives; changes addressing disability discrimination are secured in policies, practices, services and attitudes; mainstream development programmes focus on disability. ADD International works with disabled people living in poverty in Africa and Asia, and their organisations, to tackle poverty, and to ensure they are not left behind. As such, all our work is relevant to the subject of the summit.

We are particularly keen to attend the summit for two reasons. First, our Director of Policy and Influencing (Mosharraf Hossain) has applied to speak at Civil Society Roundtable 1, and his application is currently being considered by the President of the General Assembly. Second, we have been contacted by the African Disability Union (ADU) to co-organise a side event with ADU and UN DESA.

In participating in these activities, we would be drawing on ADD's extensive experience of programmes and activities to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, with a particular focus on disabled women. We currently work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Uganda. Our work comprises:

1. Providing financial support, facilities, capacity development training and mentoring to disabled people?s organizations.
2. Influencing policies of governments, UN agencies, other international NGOs, institutions and networks for the inclusion of disabled peoples? concerns.
3. Research to generate evidence for programming, advocacy and campaigns.
4. Implementing thematic programmes in partnership with specialist organizations on key areas like gender based violence, HIV, livelihoods, and inclusive education.
At national level, our work focusses on our country programmes in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Uganda. Examples of our activities include:

- In Bangladesh, working with organisations of disabled people to address barriers to accessing employment, by combining skills training with advocacy for non-discrimination in the job market.

- In Cambodia, working with local civil society organisations to provide tailored responses to gender-based violence for women with disabilities.

- In Sudan, helping women with disabilities form organisations to advocate for their rights.

- In the United Republic of Tanzania, working in partnership with disabled people's organisations and the Government of Tanzania to implement inclusive education for children with disabilities at scale: the Government of Tanzania is already replicating elements of our project outside the original project area.

- In Uganda, reaching out to people with albinism to help them organise self-help groups and build links with other parts of the Ugandan disability movement.

These are just examples - for more information, please refer to our Annual Report and our website.

At international level, we have played an active role in the SDG process from the beginning. We were early advocates of the principle of 'no-one left behind', and helped organise the round-table on disability and ageing at the Monrovia High Level Panel consultation. Our Director of Policy and Influencing was selected as a speaker at the Third IGN. He also served on the Steering Committees to select civil society speakers for the Fourth IGN and the 26-27 May UN General Assembly interactive hearings on the post-2015 agenda. With the Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights, we organised a side event at the most recent Conference of States Parties to the UNCRPD, on the theme of disability inclusive SDG indicators.
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