APDK acknowledges that persons with disabilities have the right to employment on an equal basis with others, recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). This includes the freedom to choose or be accepted for employment in a job market and workplace that is accessible, inclusive, and available to people with disabilities in order to earn a living.

The Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya (APDK) in partnership with CBM and other consortium members (Andy, Leonard Cheshire, World Bank, ILO and Plan International) implemented a three-year DFID-funded project dubbed ‘Innovation to Inclusion’ (i2i) whose main goal was to promote access to and opportunities for apprenticeship, internship and employment of persons with disabilities in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. The i2i project was a 3-year mulita-country initiative funded by DFID and implemented both in Kenya and Bangladesh. The project was engaged through a triple nexus working with Government, Private sector and persons with Disability and their respective DPOs