Programme : Presentation on Day
1 Purpose of the
Workshop
Presented by Kay Nagata
Disability Focal Point
UN ESCAP
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Regional Workshop on Monitoring the Implementation of the Biwako
Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and
Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF)
Bangkok, Thailand, 13-15 October 2004
The purpose of the Workshop
By Kay Nagata, UNESCAP
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Preamble
Beijing, 1992
Launch of Agenda for Action, Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled
Persons, 1993-2002
Resolution 58/4 (May 2002)
Promoting an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for people
with disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region in the twenty-first
century (2003 – 2012)
Paradigm shift
From charity-based approach to inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based
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Seven priority areas for action
- Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and
related family and parent associations;
- Women with disabilities;
- Early detection, early intervention and education;
- Training and employment;
- Access to physical environments and public transport;
- Access to information and communications, including ICT;
- Poverty alleviation .
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Strategies to achieve the BMF targets
Disability issues should have:
- National plan of action
- A rights-based approach (International convention for PWD)
- Disability statistics, indicators and common definitions for
planning
- Strengthened community-based approaches to prevention of causes,
rehabilitation and empowerment of PWD
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Structure of the BMF
4 Strategy areas with 17 strategies
- National plan of action
- A rights-based approach
- Statistics and common definitions for planning
- Strengthened CBR approach and independent living
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Multi-year (two-year) project
- 2004 – assist for governments to develop their system by 2005 for
disability-related data collection and analysis and to produce relevant
statistical and policy-oriented “indicators” to assess the situation of
PWD to support policy-making and programme planning;
- 2005- assist for governments to develop, in collaboration with civil
society groups, a five year comprehensive national policy or plan of
action to implement the targets and strategies of the BMF
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Process
- Development of good (standard) indicators;
- Collecting and analysis of the data based on the indicators;
- Development (revision) of national disability policy;
- The process continues.
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Ultimate goal for good indicators: some good practice existing
- Japan’s revised 10-year national plan of action on disability issues
(2003-2012) incorporating the targets and paradigm of the BMF;
- Japan’s mid term, 5-year national plan of action on disability issues
(2003-2007);
- Japan’s revised comprehensive disability law: the Fundamental Law of
Disabled Persons
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The time-frame
- The new Decade: 2003-2012;
- The mid-point review of the BMF (based on the review, targets and
strategies, at the mid point, in 2007)
- The target of the Convention process to be finalized by 2007????
- A set of indicators (for selection) to be used until the end of the
Decade (2012) and even longer
- The process of selection of relevant indicators is “dynamic” according
to the level of development in each country.
- WHO-ICF (definition, classification, statistics, and shift of the
model on disability, from medical model to social model)
- Achievement of MDG goals --- BMF
- Twin Track Approach of (i) “disability integration” and (ii)
empowerment of PWD (e.g. CBR projects, capacity building, etc.) -- a need
for a good tool for disability impact (sensitivity) assessment and
disability budgeting.
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Two main paradigms
- Human rights- based approach: The Convention for PWD, national laws,
self-help groups, shift from medical model to social model, etc.;
- Development model: Twin track approach (disability integration into
mainstream projects, CBR, poverty alleviation, MDG goals, etc.)
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Who is responsible for monitoring and implementation?
1. National institutional mechanism for monitoring
- The Government;
- National disability focal point;
- NCC;
- Civil society (DPOs, NGOs, etc.)
2. Other stakeholders
Researchers, self-help groups, law makers, media people, private
sector, etc.
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Expected outcomes
Agenda item 12:
Working Group discussions
- Group 1: Development of indicators for monitoring the BMF
- Group 2: Monitoring mechanisms for the implementation of the
BMF, capacity building and technical cooperation
- Group 3: Development of a rights-based comprehensive national
policy
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Some considerations about indicators
- Statistical indicators (not raw data: e.g. % of disabled persons,
prevalence, which is expressed occurances/1,0000, infant mortality
rate/1000 population, the ratio, such as ratio of income of the richest
10% population compared to that of the lowest 10% population, etc.)
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Some considerations (continue)
- Policy oriented indicators: Such as do you have NCC on disability in
your country, and if so how many times a year do the NCC members meet? --
YES/NO answer
- Do you have an employment quota scheme? If so what is the % of the
quota and what is the compliance rate of private sector? -- YES/NO
question and compliance rate is “statistical”.
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Some examples
- Did your government ratify the ILO Convention 159? (policy oriented)
- Do you have a comprehensive national disability policy? (policy
oriented)
- Do you have a unified national sign language? (policy oriented)
- Enrollment rate of disabled students in primary school (disability
defined by the country, such as degree A, degree B, of disability etc.)
compared to the enrollment rate of the total population? (Statistical)
- No. of physiotherapists per 1000 population (Statistical)
- Need for both policy oriented and statistical indicators for
monitoring the progress during the period of 10 years.
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Policy oriented joint statement
- Commitment to implementation of the BMF goals;
- Consensus about key indicators (policy –oriented indicators and
statistical indicators);
- Participation and empowerment of persons with disabilities;
- Disability Integration (Twin Track Approach);
- Disability Funding
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