E/ESCAP/APDDP/4/Rev.1
24 January 2003
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Conclude the Asian and Pacific
Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002
25-28 October 2002
Otsu City, Shiga, Japan
CONSIDERATION OF A REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE,
BARRIER-FREE AND RIGHTS-BASED SOCIETY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
(Item 6 of the provisional agenda)
BIWAKO MILLENNIUM FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE, BARRIER-FREE AND
RIGHTS-BASED SOCIETY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Note by the secretariat
SUMMARY
The Commission, at its fifty-eighth session, adopted resolution 58/4 of 22 May 2002 on
promoting an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for people with disabilities
in the Asian and Pacific region in the twenty-first century, by which it proclaimed the
extension of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 1993-2002, for another
decade, 2003-2012.
The present document sets out a draft regional framework for action that provides
regional policy recommendations for action by Governments in the region and concerned
stakeholders to achieve an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for persons
with disabilities in the new decade, 2003-2012. The regional framework for action
identifies seven areas for priority action in the new decade. Each priority area contains
critical issues, targets and the action required.
The regional framework for action explicitly incorporates the millennium development
goals and their relevant targets to ensure that concerns relating to persons with
disabilities become an integral part of efforts to achieve the goals.
CONTENTS
I. PREAMBLE
II. PRINCIPLES AND POLICY DIRECTIONS OF THE BIWAKO
MILLENNIUM FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION
III. PRIORITY AREAS FOR ACTION
IV. TARGETS AND ACTION IN THE PRIORITY AREAS
A. Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and related family and parent
associations
B. Women with disabilities
C. Early detection, early intervention and education
D. Training and employment, including self-employment
E. Access to built environments and public transport
F. Access to information and communications, including information, communication and
assistive technologies
G. Poverty alleviation through capacity-building, social security and sustainable
livelihood programmes
V. STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE THE TARGETS OF THE BIWAKO
MILLENNIUM FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION
A. National plan of action (five years) on disability
B. Promotion of a rights-based approach to disability issues
C. Disability statistics/common definition of disabilities for planning
D. Strengthened community-based approaches to the prevention of causes of disability,
rehabilitation and empowerment of persons with disabilities
VI. COOPERATION AND SUPPORT IN PURSUANCE OF THE BIWAKO
MILLENNIUM FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION
A. Subregional cooperation and collaboration
B. Regional collaboration
C. Interregional cooperation
VII. MONITORING AND REVIEW
A. Organization of regional and subregional meetings
B. Regional working group to coordinate and monitor the Biwako Millennium Framework for
Action
C. Mid-point review of the Biwako Millennium Framework for Action
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