During a visit to Nairobi this month to see the team at Little Rock Inclusive Early Childhood Development Centre I was invited to an important and influential event that was taking place over the border in Kampala, Uganda. The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development Lynne Featherstone and Team GB Paralympian Ade Adepitan were hosting a meeting alongside the Ugandan Ministry for Gender and Social Development on the 'great neglect' of disability in the development arena. AbleChildAfrica and our partners in Uganda, USDC, were invited to attend and give comment on our work with disabled children in country.

The meeting was packed with influential CSOs, DPOs and individuals who have long been campaigning for a more inclusive development agenda but what made this meeting important is that now these people will have their voices heard at a global and influential level, which just may result in a seismic shift for the disability movement in the coming years. The UK Prime Minster David Cameron as a Co-Chair of the High Level Panel on Post 2015, he has been tasked with leading the discussion and setting the agenda for the world's new development framework when the Millennium Development Goals come to an end in 2015. Minister Featherstone's passion and drive to put disability on this agenda was well documented in her address to the crowd gathered in Kampala; "In the UK, I am the Minister responsible for disability within the Government's Department for International Development, and quite frankly I have made it my mission to ensure that challenges faced by people with disabilities are addressed and are a key development priority... WHO estimates that one billion people globally live with some sort of disability - that's one in seven people. Everywhere they live people with disabilities are statistically more likely to be unemployed, illiterate, to have less formal education and less access to support networks. They are further isolated by discrimination, by ignorance and by prejudices."