September 2025
Alongside developing our Working Together Framework, we also spent time this year taking a deeper look at Haki Collective as an organisation — where we’ve come from, how we operate, and where we want to go next.
This work was captured in our Organisational Development Report, completed in July 2025 following a commissioned process with facilitator Anu Priya.
Haki Collective emerged from a clear and urgent need: the recognition that racism and ableism are too often treated as separate issues, despite being deeply interconnected in the lived experiences of Black and Global Majority Disabled people.
What began informally has grown into an organisation committed to addressing these intersectional injustices through collaboration, partnership and community-led approaches.
The purpose of this commissioned work was to support us in strengthening our governance and operational foundations, while also identifying opportunities for growth and development within the co-director team.
As the report reflects, “[Haki] has strong values and a clear vision. What is needed now is the systematic work of building governance and operational systems that can sustain this important work whilst staying true to its principles of disability justice and intersectional liberation.”
The process was rooted in values that closely align with our own, including anti-oppression, anti-racism, disability justice, transformative justice, feminism and womanism.
It was designed to be “emergent and collaborative,” creating space for honest and sometimes difficult conversations about how systemic harms show up inside organisations — even those working to dismantle them — while “honouring the complexity of building something new.”
This work has helped us clarify our direction of travel, strengthen our foundations, and better align our internal practices with the values that guide our external work.
As with everything at Haki, this is part of an ongoing process of building an organisation that can meaningfully support Black and Global Majority Disabled people and communities, now and into the future.