In this nine-minute audio report, the Inclusive Futures Nigeria team speaks with Gbenga Totoyi, the director for membership and market development at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, an influential regulatory body and national membership organisation for human resource professionals in Nigeria.

Gbenga explains how and why the institute is working with us to champion and drive forward disability inclusion in workplaces across Nigeria through our Inclusion Works programme, part of the Inclusive Futures initiative.

Listen to his audio report to hear Gbenga speak as a human resource specialist about the barriers people with disabilities face in accessing employment in Nigeria, the benefits he sees for the private sector in making recruitment processes inclusive, and the opportunities that are beginning to present themselves for candidates with disabilities in emerging sectors such as technology.

Download transcription [.pdf]

In this nine-minute audio report, the Inclusive Futures Nigeria team speaks with Gbenga Totoyi, the director for membership and market development at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, an influential regulatory body and national membership organisation for human resource professionals in Nigeria.
Gbenga explains how and why the institute is working with us to champion and drive forward disability inclusion in workplaces across Nigeria through our Inclusion Works programme, part of the Inclusive Futures initiative.
Listen to his audio report to hear Gbenga speak as a human resource specialist about the barriers people with disabilities face in accessing employment in Nigeria, the benefits he sees for the private sector in making recruitment processes inclusive, and the opportunities that are beginning to present themselves for candidates with disabilities in emerging sectors such as technology.
<a href="https://inclusivefutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/6.pdf">Download transcription [.pdf]</a>

People who have disabilities are the best people to report on the issues that affect them.

Hear directly from our citizen reporters, a group of young people who have disabilities living across the world. By producing their own audio reports, exploring the work being done to improve the lives of people with disabilities, and asking challenging questions to people on the streets where they live, they're unearthing views, attitudes and perspectives of disability.

Together with Inclusive Futures, an initiative working towards disability inclusion, they'll bring you one-on-one interviews, conversations, round table discussions and radio style documentaries.

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People who have disabilities are the best people to report on the issues that affect them.
Hear directly from our <a href="https://inclusivefutures.org/citizen-reporting/">citizen reporters</a>, a group of young people who have disabilities living across the world. By producing their own audio reports, exploring the work being done to improve the lives of people with disabilities, and asking challenging questions to people on the streets where they live, they're unearthing views, attitudes and perspectives of disability.
Together with <a href="https://inclusivefutures.org/">Inclusive Futures</a>, an initiative working towards disability inclusion, they'll bring you one-on-one interviews, conversations, round table discussions and radio style documentaries.
Subscribe now to receive regular audio updates from our reporters around the world.

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Ep.6: Gbenga Totoyi, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, Nigeria

We invited four young disability advocates to discuss their hopes for the Global Disability Summit, which took place in Berlin in April 2025. Hear some of the highlights from the conversation between host Alan Herbert, and panellists Caterina Nyambura, Josephine Mwende, and Sharon Odongo during this special podcast episode, recorded in Nairobi, Kenya.

We invited four young disability advocates to discuss their hopes for the Global Disability Summit, which took place in Berlin in April 2025. Hear some of the highlights from the conversation between host Alan Herbert, and panellists Caterina Nyambura, Josephine Mwende, and Sharon Odongo during this special podcast episode, recorded in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Financial inclusion has been identified as an enabler for seven of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank Group considers it a key enabler to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Despite progress in recent years, people with disabilities still face multiple barriers in accessing financial services and products.

In this 23-minute conversation, Paul Horsters from GIZ’s Global Project on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities speaks with Mary Asare and Ana de la Vega Núñez from GIZ and Sheru Muuo from Sightsavers about research they carried out in Ghana, Mexico and Kenya. They discuss why women with disabilities are often more financially excluded and how this can be improved.

Sheru also explains how, with funding from GIZ, Sightsavers is piloting a new loan product with a reduced interest rate and a longer repayment period, to support women retailers with disabilities in western Kenya to grow their businesses in the Global Labor Program – Inclusive Futures.

Download transcription [pdf.]

Financial inclusion has been identified as an enabler for seven of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank Group considers it a key enabler to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Despite progress in recent years, people with disabilities still face multiple barriers in accessing financial services and products.
In this 23-minute conversation, Paul Horsters from GIZ’s Global Project on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities speaks with Mary Asare and Ana de la Vega Núñez from GIZ and Sheru Muuo from Sightsavers about research they carried out in Ghana, Mexico and Kenya. They discuss why women with disabilities are often more financially excluded and how this can be improved.
Sheru also explains how, with funding from GIZ, Sightsavers is piloting a new loan product with a reduced interest rate and a longer repayment period, to support women retailers with disabilities in western Kenya to grow their businesses in the Global Labor Program – Inclusive Futures.
<a href="https://inclusivefutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GIZ_Sightsavers_Podcast_transcript_Financial-Inclusion-of-Women-with-Disabilities.pdf">Download transcription [pdf.]</a>

Financial inclusion for women with disabilities

Many small businesses in Kenya have been adversely impacted or even been forced to shut down due to the effects of COVID-19, including businesses run and owned by people with disabilities.

In this 11-minutes audio report, Inclusive Futures citizen reporter Alan Herbert speaks with Henry Thuo, an entrepreneur with a disability and the founder of Hemuth fabrications.

Listen to this audio report to hear about how COVID-19 almost wiped out Henry’s business and how the assistance he received from Light for the World’s InBusiness initiative gave his business a lifeline during the pandemic.

Download transcription [pdf.]

Many small businesses in Kenya have been adversely impacted or even been forced to shut down due to the effects of COVID-19, including businesses run and owned by people with disabilities.
In this 11-minutes audio report, Inclusive Futures citizen reporter Alan Herbert speaks with Henry Thuo, an entrepreneur with a disability and the founder of Hemuth fabrications.
Listen to this audio report to hear about how COVID-19 almost wiped out Henry&rsquo;s business and how the assistance he received from Light for the World&rsquo;s InBusiness initiative gave his business a lifeline during the pandemic.
<a href="https://inclusivefutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Audio-transcript_Alan-Herbert_Henry-Thuos-COVID19-story.pdf">Download transcription [pdf.]</a>

Ep.6: Gbenga Totoyi, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, Nigeria

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