Global Disability Summit 2025

2–3 Apr 2025 | Berlin, Germany

DOMINIQUE SCHLUPKOTHEN

Director Community Based Inclusive Development @ CBM

CBM Christian Blind Mission

Bensheim, Germany

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Community Based Inclusive Development is a great way to implement and localise the CRPD and the SDGs

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CBM Christian Blind Mission

CBM Christian Blind Mission

Civil Society Organization (CSO)

Bensheim, Germany

CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities. Based on its Christian values and over 100 years of professional expertise, CBM addresses poverty as a cause, and a consequence, of disability, and works in partnership to create a society for all. CBM’s vision is of an inclusive world in which all persons with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential. CBM works in the most disadvantaged societies, irrespective of race, gender or religion.
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About me

Dominique is currently CBM’s Director for Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID), leading a global technical team supporting about 200 disability inclusive programmes in over 30 countries. He holds a master’s degree in International Business and Cultural Studies (IBCS) and has dedicated his life to inclusive development. In the past 15 years, Dominique has served in programme leadership and advisory roles, supporting the implementation of participatory approaches, engaging with persons with disabilities and their communities to achieve meaningful and sustainable change. He has contributed to a number of practical publications and guidance documents, including the “Make Development Inclusive” manual supporting disability mainstreaming in development cooperation, the UN Flagship Report on Disability and Development and the Global Disability Inclusion Report. Dominique has worked and lived in Africa, Asia and Europe.

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Speaker sessions (2)

Thursday, 3 April 2025