Our Strategy
Our change goal for 2025 to 2030 is to help strengthen the assistive technology ecosystem –policies, products, personnel and provision – so the countries we work with have capacity to meet the right to mobility and inclusion of an additional one million disabled people.
Strategic priorities
- Rights & inclusion: promote and help to secure disabled people’s right to mobility and inclusion
- Workforce: increase the skills and capacity of the clinical, community and technical workers who support disabled people’s mobility and inclusion
- Products: design, manufacture, supply and develop the sustainable manufacture of a choice of mobility products
- Lasting change: incentivise and support partners to put in place the people, products, systems and finance needed for sustainable assistive technology provision
Our Approach
All of our work is driven by the and an approach where we:
- Decentralise our organisation, transitioning away from having a UK office so the work is entirely led and delivered by Motivation Africa and Motivation India
- Respond to disabled people’s voices and choices
- Work in support of national and state policies and priorities
- Work in locations that can deliver maximum impact
- Work with partners in the countries where we work to embed change
- Build, test and share practical solutions and best practice
- Increase the uptake and use of evidence around best-in-show AT provision within universal health and social care
- Collaborate and cooperate across the AT and related sectors
RIGHTS
Promote and help to secure disabled peoples’ right to mobility, independence and autonomy
WORKFORCE
Increase the skills and capacity of the clinical, community and technicians who support disabled people’s mobility and independence and autonomy
PRODUCTS
Enhance access to appropriate wheelchairs, thereby increasing both the demand and supply that disabled people are entitled to and can choose from.
LASTING
CHANGE
Incentivise and support partners we work with to put in place the people, products, systems and finance needed for sustainable assistive technology provision
The programme focus of Motivation Africa are aligned to the WHO-GATE (World Health Organisation – Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology) 5P framework for strengthening access to assistive technology which includes – People, Policy, Products, service Provision and Personnel.
We work with the entire ecosystem of assistive technology with the wheelchair users being the central focus. Some of the key stakeholders we work with are clinicians and technicians, manufacturers, academics, decision-makers, families and communities, through which we work on:
