In the beginning…
Knowing the importance of measurement in business, passionate AND members were looking to measure and understand their disability inclusion maturity. These pioneers were eager for a tool that could help them benchmark and score how they were performing across the organisation.
Recognising the need, AND researched existing solutions from across the globe and identified the Business Disability Forum‘s (BDF) world-renowned Disability Standard Tool (now the Disability Smart Audit Tool) as an effective management tool for Australia. AND completed an extensive pilot with eight member organisations in 2012-13. The pilot aimed to understand which aspects of the tool would work in Australia, and what needed to be reshaped to best fit the needs of Australian organisations.