ADD International

ADD International is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 294860).

ADD International is a participatory grant-maker that supports disability justice organisations and activists with funding and leadership skills to build powerful movements for change. Its strategy is called Mtiririko, a Swahili word meaning 'flow', reflecting its aim to send resources directly to disability justice activists and movements. Its programmes include the Disability Justice Fund for Women, designed by women with disabilities in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, and the Disability Justice Fund for Youth, which a group of young disabled people from Uganda, Cambodia and Bangladesh is designing. Its first Cambodia Collaborative Fund phase supported 13 Organisations of Persons with Disabilities in Kampong Speu and Kampong Cham provinces, and it paid £103,315 in grants in the year covered by the annual report.

Priority Areas

ADD International is a participatory grant-maker for disability justice, supporting disability justice organisations and activists with funding and leadership skills. It works with formal, registered Organisations of Persons with Disabilities and informal, grassroots disability organisations and groups. Its participatory approach gives disabled people a role in designing the funding process, deciding who receives grants and controlling how resources are used. The foundation supports organisations to strengthen disability movements, develop leadership, advocate for disability justice and inclusion, and influence more inclusive policies and systems. It works with disability justice movements and partners across Africa and Asia. It aims to address inequalities within disability movements and ensure disabled women, disabled young people and other underrepresented groups have equitable access to funding, leadership and opportunities.

Themes

• Disability justice
• Leadership development
• Disability advocacy
• Movement building
• Disabled women
• Disabled young people

Geographic Focus

Throughout the world.

ADD International does not accept unsolicited funding proposals. It advertises future grant opportunities through its website, newsletter and social media channels; prospective applicants can follow those channels and sign up to the newsletter.

What the charity says:

• It aims to ensure disabled women, disabled young people and other underrepresented groups have equitable access to funding, leadership and opportunities.
• Disabled people help design the funding process, decide who receives grants and have greater control over how resources are used.