Our partners

United States Government

With the support of United States government entities, HI is supporting communities in sectors ranging from disaster relief to landmine clearance to inclusive education to rehabilitation. 

USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs
In collaboration with USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) and its predecessor agencies, HI has been implementing humanitarian projects for nearly 15 years in 20 countries. With BHA funding, HI provides critical services, including comprehensive physical rehabilitation, explosive ordinance risk education, inclusive humanitarian action, mental health and psychosocial support, food security, cash assistance, and disaster risk management. Through Atlas Logistique, an operational unit of HI, BHA supports logistics preparedness and light civil engineering activities.

Project Spotlight
BHA is a key donor in support of the SIGNAL project, Atlas Logistique’s innovative approach to humanitarian logistics. SIGNAL identifies the degree of logistics vulnerability and disaster recovery capacity of communities in fragile contexts. It also helps to ensure that humanitarian aid strategies consider populations located in areas with the highest logistical constraints, and thus strengthen their recovery capacity and resilience. 

U.S. State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM-WRA)

Project Spotlight
With support from The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM/WRA), HI has been running demining operations in seven municipalities in Colombia's Cauca Department, successfully releasing all the land in four so far.

U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM)
HI employs funding from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) in five countries to address the urgent needs of displaced people, from providing physical rehabilitation to promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities in broader humanitarian responses. As the US government’s agency centrally concerned with the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons, PRM is a key partner in HI’s essential work with these populations. 

Project Spotlight
Since 2020, HI has implemented a PRM-funded project focused on providing inclusive specialized services for vulnerable persons in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps and host communities. In collaboration with our local partner Centre for Disability in Development, HI provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to Rohingya refugees in the camps at Cox’s Bazar and to host community members. HI also facilitates referrals for persons with disabilities to multi-sectoral services within the camps and works with other humanitarian actors to facilitate an inclusive response to the ongoing crisis.

European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations

HI utilizes European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) funding to support communities experiencing humanitarian emergencies and chronic crisis. In Kenya, for example, with ECHO support, HI is providing inclusive and equitable education to 7,000 children with disabilities in Kakuma and Dadaab camps for internally displaced persons. 

Project Spotlight
​​​​​​​ECHO and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) support From Guidelines to Action (FG2A), a global initiative equipping humanitarian actors with resources, knowledge and guidance to make humanitarian action more inclusive of persons with disabilities. With a focus on the operationalization and localization of the IASC Guidelines on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action in protection and food security, FG2A draws on learning, data and tools to ensure disability inclusion is centralized within humanitarian responses.

United Nations

HI receives funding support from UN agencies and works with partners across the UN system in responding to disasters and complex crises. Partner agencies include UNICEF, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Project Spotlight
​​​​​​​In Lebanon, with UNICEF and OCHA support, HI is promoting the developing of inclusive public education for all children, including children with disabilities, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Activities include providing rehabilitation and assistive technologies to children with disabilities already enrolled in public schools and support for out-of-school children with disabilities’ enrollment in public schools. Overall, HI aims to enable access to learning to 690 out-of-education or at-risk of dropping out Lebanese and migrant children with disabilities.

Center for Disaster Philanthropy
The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) mobilizes philanthropy to strengthen the ability of communities to withstand disasters and recover equitably when they occur. 

With CDP support, HI is advancing disability-inclusive COVID-19 response and recovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Somalia. Activities in the DRC include training more than 1,000 members of 74 women’s clubs in Kinshasa on COVID-19 prevention measures and good hygiene practices. In late 2022, community awareness-raising activities on these topics reached more than 269,000 people. In Somalia, HI is working closely with community representatives and health authorities to make the response to COVID-19 and future health emergencies more disability inclusive for people living in and near IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in Hargeisa and Mogadishu. Two ramps were recently installed at the IDP camps, exemplifying the tangible improvements taking place as a result of the initiative.

The Hello in There Foundation
The Hello in There Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization established by the family of John Prine as a way for his fan network, friends, and family to celebrate his memory and generous spirit through a philanthropic commitment to community care. 

We are grateful for the foundation’s funding support for HI’s emergency response supporting communities in Syria and Türkiye impacted by the February 2023 earthquakes.

Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation
The Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation works to ensure the basic needs and human rights of the most vulnerable children throughout the world. 

In 2023, the Ross Foundation provided critical funding support for HI’s emergency response supporting children and families in Syria and Türkiye impacted by the February 2023 earthquakes.

Previously, the Ross Foundation supported HI in providing life-saving explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) for more than 11,000 children in Syria and Northern Iraq. Additionally, Ross Foundation support for a project strengthening early detection and early intervention services for children with disabilities in Jordan resulted in 79 Syrian and Jordanian children with disabilities being identified and enrolled in early intervention (EI) services.

International Nongovernmental Organizations

In addition to implementing its own projects, HI participates in consortia comprised of international aid organizations, in both leading and supporting roles. 

Project Spotlight
In Rwanda, HI is part of a four-member consortium led by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on the five-year USAID-funded Integrated Nutrition and Early Child Development Program (INECD). Across 10 districts, the initiative aims to improve the health, functioning, nutritional status, and well-being of women of reproductive age and children under five years of age, with an emphasis on the 1,000-day window, strengthen inclusion of children and adults with disabilities, and improve positive parenting and child development.

Some of HI's implementing partners include:

Organizations of Persons with Disabilities

These civil society organizations, also known as OPDs, are led by persons with disabilities and are at the frontlines of the fight for disability rights. HI supports and works closely with organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in advocating for and working toward a more inclusive world.

Project Spotlight
The Making It Work (MIW) initiative uses a rights-based approach aiming at generating lasting improvements in the lives of persons with disabilities, in line with the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This initiative is based on identifying effective or innovative practices as evidence of achieving positive changes in the lives of persons with disabilities, whether from grass-roots level initiatives or regional-level activities and analyzing how they could be sustained or replicated.

The MIW Gender and Disability project specifically acknowledges the vulnerability of women and girls with disabilities to gender- and disability-based violence and the lack of documented good practices on inclusive responses to address it. The MIW Gender and Disability project seeks to increase the visibility of women and girls with disabilities within international development, human rights, gender and humanitarian action to ensure that their voices and concerns are heard on how to respond to violence, abuse and exploitation throughout the world.

Since 2017, the MIW Gender and Disability project has been working with 17 organizations across Africa that are either women with disabilities organizations or feminist organizations working with women with disabilities to fight gender-based violence.