Inclusive Community Forum

The Journey to Inclusion begins with the signing of the “Commitment to Inclusion”.  

Companies that sign the “Commitment to Inclusion” declare their interest in promoting the employability of people with disabilities in the company they represent, and commit to doing so, recognizing the economic and social value of this reality, not only for the company itself and its employees, but also for society.  

By signing the “Commitment to Inclusion”, companies benefit from the ICF's support in taking the first steps towards hiring people with disabilities.  

Launched at Inclusive Talks 2019, where 24 companies accepted the challenge of publicly committing to the inclusion of people with disabilities in their organizations, this Commitment aims to encourage the hiring of people with disabilities.

In October 2022, the ICF made this Commitment clearer and more concrete and issued the challenge to companies once again. The companies thus committed to hiring people with disabilities over the next two years, during which time the ICF will monitor these companies even more closely. 

Figures:

• 75 Commitment to Inclusion signatory companies
• 24 Awareness-raising sessions held with companies that are signatories to the Commitment to Inclusion  
• 11 video testimonies of people with disabilities in the job market

Today there are 75 companies committed to inclusion. Check them out:

• Aegon Santander
  The right partnerships are very important for the success of inclusive recruitment. Learn how Aegon Santander has implemented its "Commitment to Inclusion."
  Watch the video.
• Brisa
  Brisa shares an inspiring message about hiring people with disabilities, telling the path taken since the signing of the "Commitment to Inclusion", promoted by ICF.
  Watch the video.
• CUF
  CUF signed the Commitment to Inclusion as part of its collaboration with ICF and since then has made great strides in hiring people with disabilities.
  Watch the video.
• El Corte Inglés
  El Corte Inglés has a long experience of inclusive recruitment. Find out what it has learned along the way.
  Watch the video.
• Jerónimo Martins
  Jerónimo Martins signed the "Commitment to Inclusion" as part of its collaboration with ICF. Learn about its experience of hiring people with disabilities from its testimony.
  Watch the video.
• Santander
  Santander is one of the companies that signed the "Commitment to Inclusion". Based on its experience in hiring people with disabilities, it shares a message for other companies: "Do it quickly. You're going to gain a lot from this process."
  Watch the video.

The Awareness-raising Sessions are available for Companies as an unloking step of fears and challenges to the recruitment of people with disabilities. These Sessions were deigned for:

• Top Leadership Teams;
• Middle Leadership Teams;
• Human Resources Teams;
• Teams that are receiving people with disabilities.

Learn about Accenture's experience of the Awareness-Raising Sessions:

• Leadership Awareness Sessions with Accenture

For more information about the  Awareness-raising Sessions, please, contact ICF through the email address icf@novasbe.pt.

Consulting Labs are the third step in the Journey to Inclusion.

These are consulting projects with an average duration of three months and are conducted by a team of master’s degree students from Nova SBE under the guidance of Professor Constança Casquinho.

Their mission is to address a concrete challenge that a business client proposes.

As examples of Consulting Labs in the Journey to Inclusion, we have the definition of the strategy for diversity and inclusion, the definition of the strategy for inclusive recruitment, and recommendations for adapting the internal recruitment process.

Learn about CUF's experience with Consulting Labs.

The last step of the Journey to Inclusion is Inclusive Future, an initiative that aims to raise community awareness about the employability of people with disabilities through testimonial videos. In these videos, people with disabilities talk about their work, their responsibilities, and the specific tasks they perform, elaborating on the impact that this job ends up having on their lives.

The Inclusive Future is part of the Design the Future platform, a vocational exploration platform. This way, it brings together the videos of people with disabilities with so many others, providing true inclusion.

Showing that it is possible brings value to the market, and it also shows that there are different ways of employability. Thus, on the one hand, this initiative aims to increase the awareness and predisposition of companies to hire employees with disabilities and, on the other hand, inspire people with disabilities for employability.

In this last step of the Journey to Inclusion, companies are challenged to share a video with success stories of people with disabilities who have been hired for their organizations in the context of inclusive recruitment.

The Inclusive Future pilot project was developed under the context of employability and, through ICF's partnership with the Design the Future platform, resulted in the production of ten videos. After the pilot project, five videos of companies were produced in the context of the Journey to Inclusion.

All the videos that have been produced so far are available on the Design the Future platform.