Sustainable, inclusive development for East Africa
Across East Africa, too many persons with disabilities are left out of the services and support they need to live full, independent lives.
Women and girls continue to face risks to their safety, limited access to education and income, and too little say in decisions that shape their futures.
We strengthen local organizations, government institutions, and partnerships so programs are inclusive, scalable, and sustainable long after funding ends.
We often partner from behind—working alongside local organizations to strengthen their leadership, delivery, and long-term impact.
We don't just deliver programs - we make sure they continue without us.
By 2030, Inclusion Unfolding - Africa aims to increase access to healthcare, education, employment, and social services for 1 million persons with disabilities and women across East Africa advancing equity and opportunity for historically marginalized communities.
A future where marginalized voices shape the systems that serve them, building communities rooted in equity, access, and shared opportunity.
years of combined experience across East Africa
with deep local partnerships
and implementing partner professionals
Across East Africa, millions of persons with disabilities are still unable to access basic services like healthcare, education, and employment. Many are excluded not only from opportunities, but from everyday life—facing stigma, isolation, and sometimes being hidden within their own communities. Women and girls continue to face daily barriers to safety, education, and economic independence. Gender-based violence remains widespread, and many survivors are unable to access the support and services they need. Social norms and limited resources often mean their voices are not heard—in their homes, their communities, or in decisions that affect their lives. These challenges are different, but they often overlap. Women and girls with disabilities face even greater barriers, yet are too often overlooked in programs, data, and decision-making.Sample text. Click to select the Text Element.
"But the issue goes beyond access. It is also about how development programs are designed.
Strong projects - but change that doesn't last.
Inclusion Unfolding – Africa designs, implements, and strengthens programs with a focus on what happens after the project ends. We often work as a technical partner or sub-awardee, helping local organizations strengthen their work, expand their impact, and sustain results over time.Sample text. Click to select the Text Element.
Inclusive from the start Embedded in local systems
Designed to continue And grow beyond donor funding
Sustainable Long-term impact focus
Disability inclusion and gender integrated from the outset
Working with governments to scale and institutionalize solutions
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Helping local organizations lead and sustain their work
Reinforcing local leadership rather than replacing it
Practical, decision-oriented monitoring and evaluation
Our goal: Lasting impact - not short-term outputs.
By fostering shared ownership and long-term capacity, we work with partners to sustain their impact, resources, and relationships well beyond project funding - driving locally led, inclusive, and sustainable change.
Promoting full inclusion across civic, employment, health, education, legal, and social spheres.
Supporting women and girls with a focus on combating gender-based violence (GBV).
Conducting rigorous research and assessments, and strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Adaptation, and Learning (MEAL) systems.
Collaborating globally to expand inclusive education.
Your Investment Makes Change Possible. There are Multiple Ways to Inclusive Change.
I can see again—and I can work again. This changed my life.
Program Participant
Through the EnableMe Kenya community, I got a scholarship to study software engineering online. They also helped me access training through CREA Institute. It’s been a huge boost.
Isaac Kasyoka
I have gained confidence in myself since I started working with KEFEADO as a volunteer and now as an employee. As a young woman, I’m breaking barriers and pushing my self-belief which has led to me being elected as a chair in National Agriculture Value Chain Development Program - Siaya County Chapter.
Elizabeth Othuon
I once believed my child was cursed and abandoned him out of fear. But a community session opened my eyes — disability isn’t a curse. I learned about support, inclusive schools, and met parents who gave me hope. I brought my child home and now proudly stand by his side, believing in his potential - Maasai community.
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KEFEADO
We didn’t have to move around much. We had accommodations, meals, and two class schedules to choose from. The afternoon slot worked best for me. After classes, we held peer discussions. Our sighted classmates would walk us through what we missed. That’s how we made it.
Dancan Lanya
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
