The Global Disability Summit was held in Berlin on 2 and 3 April 2025. Governments, donors and organisations of persons with disabilities made commitments there, in public, with their names against them.
Commitments made in a conference hall are easy to make. The work that decides whether they mean anything starts afterwards, and it is unglamorous: writing down what was actually promised, in what words, and then going back a year later to ask what happened.
What we have been doing
Black Albinism has been tracking the commitments Kenya made at the summit. The work has been supported by CBM.
Tracking means something specific here. It means holding the original wording rather than the summary of it, breaking each commitment into the thing that would have to be true for it to have been kept, and being willing to report that nothing has moved when nothing has moved.
Why a small albinism organisation does this
Because persons with albinism are the group most likely to fall through a gap between a disability commitment and its delivery. Albinism sits across health, education, sun protection and visual impairment at once, and a commitment written for disability in general can be fully implemented without touching any of it.
Somebody has to read the text with that in mind.
The material is coming
We produced documents from this work and they will be published here as resources, so that anybody tracking the same commitments does not have to start from nothing.
If you are working on the same thing in another country, get in touch. The method travels.
