US Department of State Mandela Washington Fellow. US Department of State IVLP Fellow. Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Advocate. Blind Car Reviewer.
ILO Global Business and Disability Network I am happy that I was a speaker at the 3rd African Business and Human Rights Forum at United Nations Nairobi. My key highlights are: 1. PWDs bring value and unique strengths to the workplace, so businesses should strive to be more inclusive. 2. Youths with disabilities should be at the forefront of business and innovative solutions tailored to the needs of people with disabilities. 3. There is ability in disability and the wider society should focus on the productivity and not the limitations that come with a disability. 4. Inclusion is costly but exclusion is more costly and businesses should strive to create conducive environments that have reasonable accommodation. inABLE Irene Mbari-Kirika, CPACC, O.G.W, GMAP Paul Agbai Srilakshmi Subramanyam Yetnebersh Nigussie Molla Lily Ronoh-Waweru
Multinational #enterprises, regionally and nationally operating companies as well as Small and medium-sized enterprises in #Africa show a growing commitment to the #inclusion of people with disabilities in their policies, programmes and workforces. Moderated by Rasak Adekoya, Programme Development Advisor – Economic Empowerment at Sightsavers, the session "#Business #leadership on #DisabilityRights as #HumanRights", at the 3rd African Business and Human Rights Forum highlighted the human rights generally, and the labour rights specifically, of persons with disabilities. Speakers were Paul Agbai, #Equity, #Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Lead for West Africa at Unilever, Srilakshmi Subramanyam, Program Lead at the Ethiopian Business Disability Network (EBDN), Julius Mbura, AdvocABLE Program Manager at inABLE and Yetnebersh Nigussie Molla, Children with Disabilities Program Specialist at UNICEF.
Julius Mbura, Thank you for being a speaker at the 3rd African Business and Human Rights Forum and representing inABLE. 🙂