About ATscale

ATscale’s vision is to ensure every person can access and afford the AT they need, enabling a lifetime of potential. ATscale’s mission is to catalyze action, amplify existing work, and coordinate and mobilize global stakeholders with unified strategies to increase availability of and access to AT. ATscale’s goal is to ensure that 500 million more people globally are reached with life-changing AT by 2030.

ATscale has three mutually strategic pillars:

• Strategic Pillar I: Supporting Country Plans, and their implementation, to strengthen their AT policies, systems, services and financing

• Strategic Pillar II: Strengthening Global Enablers, that countries depend on, such as healthy markets that deliver reliable supplies of quality, affordable products.

• Strategic Pillar III: Advocating for Change to catalyze political will, mobilize public awareness and raise overall resources.

The scope of AT is potentially very large. In order to focus work, ATscale has initially identified five priority product areas: hearing aids, wheelchairs, eyeglasses, prostheses and assistive digital devices and software.

How does ATscale take action? 

• inspires and influences stakeholders to act on AT by raising political will and mobilizing resources from current and new actors;

• develops and promotes tools, guidance and expertise globally and in countries to assure quality AT service delivery; 

• provides governments and relevant AT stakeholders with support to co-create integrated national AT joint investment plans; 

• provides investment to support national AT plans over three years initially, inviting other partners to collaborate;

• uses data and evidence to support and advocate the development of AT markets in five priority product areas: wheelchairs, hearing aids, prostheses, eyeglasses and digital devices and software.

Join us

ATscale continues to strengthen the partnership and build the movement for AT and invites all interested stakeholders to: 

• Engage with the partnership to drive the agenda forward 

• Invest to build the data, identify gaps and contribute to joint action plans 

• Integrate AT-specific interventions in ongoing policies and projects

• Join the group of core AT funders to help steer this agenda forward.
  

2023 Annual Review

Last year marked the second full year of operations for ATscale and we are pleased to report on the progress made in implementing our ambitious agenda. In 2023, the partnership finalized the start up phase, further expanded country investments, made progress on global public goods interventions, and continued to advocate transformative assistive technology.

The annual review provides an overview of achievements in 2023 and a summary of plans for 2024. We are proud of our investments made globally and locally so far and are confident they will lead to lasting impact.

Available to download in the following accessible formats: DAISY | EPUB | HTML

Available to download in the following languages: Arabic | French | Spanish

2022 - A Year in Review

2022 marked ATscale's first year of full operations and this first annual review reports on the early stages of implementing the ambitious agenda.

ATscale’s 2022 annual review is available in English in the following accessible formats: DAISY │ ePUB │ HTML
It is also available to download in PDF format in the following languages: French │Spanish │Chinese

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