Fredrick Ouko is the Co-Chief Executive & Transformation Officer at ADD International. He is co-leading their work to become a participatory grant maker.
Fredrick has worked to advance disability rights for the Disability Rights Fund, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, and Light for the World Netherlands. He founded Action Network for the Disabled, a national disabled people’s organization in Kenya, and Riziki Source, a social enterprise using tech to improve employment access for disabled people. He is an Atlantic Fellow, was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2012, and was shortlisted in 2016/2017 for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovations.
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It is time for a radical rethink on how we distribute funding in the disability rights movement
Fredrick Ouko of ADD International highlights the need for a change in the way we distribute funds, shifting power to organisations on the ground and helping to make the lives of people with disabilities better.