Globally, there are over one billion people with disabilities or 16 per cent of the world’s population.1 Eighty per cent of these individuals acquire their disabilities between the ages of 18 and 64 — the average working age for most.2 Furthermore, persons with disabilities are 50 per cent more likely to be unemployed.3 Women with disabilities and persons with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities are disproportionately affected. According to the United Nations, 80 per cent of persons with disabilities live in developing countries.4 In Asia and the Pacific, 700 million men, women, and children live with some form of disability.5 Disability-inclusive employment has yet to be achieved in the Asia-Pacific region, where 472 million working-age persons with disabilities live, accounting for 15 per cent of the total population in the region.6 While there is a fundamental shift in policy focus from sheltered employment to supported and open employment, persons with disabilities often fare worse than their peers without disabilities in the labour market.