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              • A man stands on a stage at a podium. Beside him is a long table with four men and two women sitting at it. Facing the stage another man sits at a table with papers in front of him and a microphone.

                Government-level initiative to promote inclusive employment policies

                The State Exchange on Employment & Disability is an initiative to help state and local governments take measures to integrate people with disabilities. Support is provided through intermediary organizations. Between 2015 and 2020 more than 300 integration policies were adopted by 42 US states and two territories.
                US Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), State Exchange on Employment & Disability (SEED), United States of America

              • Wayfindr: Empowering vision impaired people to travel independently

                Wayfindr wants to establish an Open Standard that helps manufacturers create consistent and reliable wayfinding products. For people with visual impairments, such a standard will enable them to navigate independently by giving them access to reliable, consistent directions from their smartphones and other devices.
                Royal Society for Blind Children, United Kingdom

              • VbA Independent Living

                Persons with disabilities employing their assistants

                In this employer model councillors who are themselves persons with disabilities accompany and support their peers. All decisions are made by the persons with disabilities. To this end, VbA offers a payroll accounting service, an internet-based platform for assistance, and a travelling service for wheelchair users.
                Independent Living e.V. Munich, Germany

              • Inclusive partnering with the post office

                The first inclusive partnership with Austrian Post began in Innsbruck on April 10, 2012. In this postal partnership team, persons with and without disabilities work together in the general labour market on an equal basis. A total of seven persons were employed in the postal partnership and related services (copy and digital service).
                SLW - Capuchin Social Services Austria, Inclusive partnering with the post office, Austria

              • This photograph shows a large white accessbile sales room with white desks, red chairs and seating options. In the background employees are servicing their costumers.

                African telecom provider aiming at an inclusive workforce and accessible customer experience

                Safaricom, a major mobile network operator from Kenya, committed to achieving a 5 per cent share of people with disabilities in its workforce by 2025. As part of the company’s Diversity & Inclusion Programme, offices and sales outlets are being made barrier-free and products and services are being made more accessible.
                Safaricom PLC, Diversity & Inclusion Programme, Kenya

              • There are five round tables in a conference room. Six people sit around each table with laptops and papers in front of them. A presentation is being projected on a screen at the front of the room.

                A cross-sector partnership promoting accessible technology in employment

                PEAT fosters cooperation among key technology leaders, stakeholders, and government agencies to make new technologies accessible. From 2013 to 2020 the website has had more than a half-million visits, and more than 200 companies use PEAT’s TechCheck benchmarking assessment.
                US Department of Labor, ODEP - Office of Disability Employment Policy, Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAT), United States of America

              • The picture shows a blue plastic information board, that explains essential terms of medical emergency situations with the help of little images, symbols and easy language.

                An online toolbox of symbols enabling communication for all, without the use of language

                Global Symbols, an NGO from the United Kingdom, provides graphic symbols for assistive and alternative forms of communication as well as online tools for their use, but also for creating your own symbols. The offer is free and open source. In 2021 more than 5,000 people used Global Symbols, and a training programme was developed with UNICEF.
                Global Symbols CIC, Global Symbols CIC, United Kingdom

              • An Indian woman wearing a blue Sari is stretching the legs of a young boy with a physical disability who is laying on two layers of colored cloth and smiling into the camera.

                E-Health improving the quality of services for children with disabilities in the rural area

                Sambhav is a web/app solution introduced by Jan Vikas Samiti, an NGO based in Northern India. It supports community-based rehabilitation services for children with developmental disabilities in rural communities, in partnership with local organizations, local health workers who are trained and supported remotely by specialists.
                JAN VIKAS SAMITI, Project Sambhav, India

              • Integrated employment model

                SPAGAT is a model for the integration of persons with severe disabilities into the employment world. SPAGAT provides support for, accompanies and finds work for such persons in the primary labour market. Companies pay for the actual work; the difference in productivity is subsidised by the provincial government, as are the mentors’ costs.
                ifS - Institute for Social Services Vorarlberg, Integrated employment model, Austria

              • A whole IKEA department run by persons with disabilities

                alsterarbeit is a social enterprise providing jobs for people with disabilities such as gardening, carpentry, packaging, IT, and gastronomy. In June 2014, the organization entered an agreement with IKEA to run the recovery department of IKEA at the Altona store in Hamburg, creating 30 jobs for people with disabilities.
                alsterarbeit, Cooperation with IKEA, Germany