Professional Experience:
Selena Imerovic Hodzic is an international consultant with more than 20 years of experience advancing disability inclusion, accessibility, and inclusive governance across humanitarian and development sectors. She has led and contributed to over thirty multi-country assignments in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and South-East Asia, helping governments, UN agencies, and international NGOs translate global human-rights commitments - particularly the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - into actionable national reforms and institutional practices.
As Founder and Lead Consultant of Inclusive Solutions, Selena specializes in integrating inclusive policy frameworks into mainstream systems. Her work focuses on aligning legal and governance structures with service delivery, ensuring that inclusive principles are embedded from design through implementation. She has provided high-level technical support to UNICEF, WFP, CBM Global, Humanity & Inclusion, and ECOWAS, among others, guiding inclusive programming in sectors such as health, education, livelihoods, social protection, and humanitarian response.
Her expertise lies in bridging policy, data, and practice. She has developed disability-disaggregated data systems, designed inclusive monitoring and accountability frameworks, and supported the operationalization of inclusive strategies across government institutions. She regularly mentors national counterparts, OPDs (Organizations of Persons with Disabilities), and multilateral partners on embedding equity, participation, and accessibility within broader governance and reform agendas.
Selena’s leadership has been instrumental in shaping national frameworks, including Zimbabwe’s Disability Identification and Assessment System, and the ECOWAS Regional Disability Action Plan 2022–2030. Her contributions extend to accessibility audits of physical environments, supervision of reviews of humanitarian platforms against WCAG 2.2 standards, and guidance on inclusive political participation within OSCE mission.
Combining a practitioner’s pragmatism with a systems-thinking approach, she excels at facilitating multi-stakeholder coordination, translating complex policy concepts into operational tools, and ensuring that inclusion becomes a measurable and sustained institutional practice. Selena’s work is distinguished by her intersectional perspective - linking disability inclusion with gender equality, data ethics, and accountability - and by her ability to connect innovation, assistive technology, and mainstream development planning to strengthen social impact.