In 2025, we continued to see both the urgency of our mission and the strength of the partnerships that make our work possible.
In Nigeria, this work has been shaped by both persistent challenges and real opportunities for progress. Across the communities where we work, people with disabilities and their representative organisations have continued to lead change — influencing policy, strengthening local systems and helping create more inclusive communities. Their leadership, resilience and determination have remained a powerful force for change.
This year has also reinforced an important lesson: lasting progress depends not only on commitment, but on listening, trust and long-term partnership. Whether through community-based work, advocacy or wider systems change, our role is strongest when it supports locally led action and remains grounded in lived experience.
We have seen again and again that change is most meaningful when it is shaped by those closest to the realities we are seeking to transform. That is why partnership remains central to our work — with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities, community groups, government stakeholders and other allies working to advance disability inclusion.
I am grateful to our partners, staff and advisory bodies for the insight, collaboration and determination they bring to this work. Their leadership continues to move us closer to a Nigeria, and a world, in which all people with disabilities can claim their rights and fulfil their potential.
Abdulazeez Musa
Country Director, CBM Global Nigeria