Our Global Disability Summit Commitments

Commitment 1 – Having at least 20% of our funding to partners being provided to OPD partners by 2027

In 2025, 18% of our total programme budget was provided to OPD partners. This includes funding for programmatic (e.g. advocacy) activities by the OPDs, for their organisational capacity strengthening and/or to support key conference organisation or attendance. It also includes funds issued under our ‘Leap Fund’, which are small grants (up to EUR 5,000) to OPDs with whom we may not have a formal or long-term relationship, but who require a modest amount of support to often achieve significant outcomes. We have started to regularly share such success stories on our social media.

Status: On track

Commitment 2 – Increasing by 25% the number of projects with OPD organisational strengthening outcomes by 2027. 

In 2025, 50% of our projects included OPD organisational strengthening outcomes. With just over 20% of our total number of projects being funded directly to OPDs, it illustrates an ongoing effort to also work with other types of partner organisations for them to include OPD organisational strengthening activities in their projects.

Furthermore, during 2025, we enhanced our own internal capacity towards OPD capacity strengthening through the development, introduction and operationalisation of key organisational resources, including our OPD Partnership Framework, OPD Organisational Strengthening Guidelines, and a Learning Document on OPD Partnership, while also providing strategic technical support to programmes working directly with OPD partners across the Federation.

Status: On track

Commitment 3 – Expanding by 2027 the number of programmes that work specifically with the most left behind amongst under-represented groups, including women and girls with disabilities, and we’ll monitor progress annually.

We advanced work on reaching those most left behind by developing internal guidance on engaging underrepresented groups of persons with disabilities, supporting our Country Teams to integrate these priorities into programming with our partners, and promoting approaches that put lived experience at the centre and remove barriers to participation within projects and advocacy initiatives. As many as 80% of our active projects for part or the full year of 2025 were reported as including work with those most left behind.

Status: On track

Commitment 4 – Advocating to our institutional donors for flexible and longer-term funding to OPDs that includes provisions for core costs and facilitates organisational strengthening and we’ll monitor progress annually.

Following are a few practical examples of our advocacy efforts:

• CBM UK’s engagement to showcase the voices and perspectives of people with disabilities in Scottish Government consultations on international development in 2024 (reported on in our last GDS 2022 report), contributed to the Government acknowledging the importance of transparent and flexible funding in its May 2025 report.
• CBM UK’s submission to the UK Parliament’s Future of UK Aid inquiry in November 2025 helped highlight the risk of sidelining accessible, flexible funding for disabled and older people, and was cited in the Committee’s February 2026 interim report.
• CBM Australia helped shape the Australian Government’s AUD 50 million Stronger Movements, Stronger Futures (SMSF) programme to align with OPD priorities by closely coordinating messaging and advocacy with OPDs. Through technical support, policy dialogue, and joint advocacy, CBM Australia ensured the programme prioritises locally led disability movement strengthening, long-term flexible OPD resourcing, and continued direct OPD partnerships with DFAT.

Furthermore, work is on-going with DAC marker advocacy for minimum standards to bring the disability DAC marker in line with the gender marker. Plans for 2026 include working on supporting OPD partners to develop monitoring and tracking of disability inclusive development cooperation.

Status: On track