Matthew Hanning is Director of International Programmes at CBM UK – Global Disability Inclusion. He has 25 years of experience of disability inclusive development working for and alongside local organisations in the Middle East, Australia, Indonesia and the UK. He co-chairs the IASC MHPSS Reference Group’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change thematic working group and is on the Steering on the Committee for Bond’s Changing Donor Policy Working Group.
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Upending the usual model: when a Kenyan partner sub-contracted a UK NGO
Recently, the international development sector has been rightly awash with ideas and good intentions towards shifting power and decolonisation. Although…
Empowerment in crisis: uniting for inclusive mental health care
In emergencies, people with disabilities are often still left behind – not only physically – but with their mental health too. But the The Information note on Disability and Inclusion in MHPSS has the potential to make sure no one’s mental health is forgotten about.
Lessons from our partnerships with local organisations of persons with disabilities
As part of considerations about how we can all be more accountable to the disability movement, CBM Global asked partners – all organisations of people with disabilities – what they really thought of their partnership. Here is what they learned.