Last updated: 1 October 2025
Global Toolkit
This Toolkit was created together with our Global Taskforce. It contains advice and guidance for organisations with employees, customers and operations in multiple countries.
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About this Toolkit
The resources contained in this Toolkit are designed to help global businesses overcome barriers to disability inclusion and support best practice around the world. Guidance covers areas including workplace adjustments, collecting data about disability and creating global disability strategies.
The resources in this Toolkit are only open to Partners. If you’re interested in upgrading your membership to Partner find out more about partnership benefits.
View a contents list of the resources in this Toolkit.
Watch an introduction to the toolkit below.
A note on language
In this toolkit, we use both ‘disabled people’ and ‘people with disabilities’ to reflect the different global and personal preferences we know exist within our global community.
If writing for a UK audience, then ‘disabled people’ is often preferred over ‘people with disabilities.’ This recognises that people are ‘disabled’ by society’s response to them or by their long-term condition. For a global audience, ‘people with disabilities’ is generally preferred as it sees the person before their disability.
For more information on the different ways people talk about disability, see our report ‘‘Lost in translation?’ A global guide to the language of disability.’
Toolkit resources
Section 1: Why develop a global disability strategy?
Section 2: How to develop a global disability inclusion strategy
Section 3: Global research
Section 4: Global guides
Section 5: Disability in a changing world
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