Regional Workshop on Comprehensive National Plan of Action on Disability - Towards the Mid-point Review 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, 19-21 October 2005

Materials:

Workshop Documentation
	Working Documents
	List of Meeting Documents
	National Disability Law
	National Policy on Disability
	National Action Plan on Disability
	Presentation Materials
	Country Papers

Documentation of the Workshop

Working Documents

1. Application of Agile Concepts in National Action Planning for Disability Inclusive Development and Poverty Reduction
2. Reinforcing the Disability Perspective in International Development Agenda
3. The Strategic Approaches to Disability Inclusive Development  - Taking one more step from the BIWAKO.

List of Meeting Documents

I. International Instruments on Persons with Disabilities

1. World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. United Nations General Assembly, 37th session, resolution 37/52, 3 December 1982 http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/diswpa00.htm
2. The Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. United Nations General Assembly, 48th session, resolution 48/96, annex, 20 December 1993 http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/dissre00.htm
3. C159 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983. General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, 20 June 1983, Geneva
   http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/ skills/recomm/instr/c_159.htm
4. The State of the Ratification of Convention 159 as of September 2005
5. The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education. World Conference on Special Needs Education: Access and Quality, Salamanca, Spain, 7-10 June 1994 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0009/000984/098427eo.pdf
6. Dakar Framework for Action http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/ed_for_all/dakfram_eng.shtml
7. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities on its sixth session http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/documents/ahc6reporte.doc

II. UNESCAP Mandate and BMF Implimentation

1. The Biwako Millenium Framework for Action: Towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-bases Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (Summary | Full Draft text)
2. Resolution 59/1: regional Implementation on the BMF
3. Resolution 61/8: mid-point review of the implementation of the BMF
4. Signatory countries and areas to the proclamation www.unescap.org/esid/psis/disability/decadenew/sign.html
5. 2004 Biwako Millennium Framework assessment & the BMF questionnaires
   • Issues in Identification of Indicators of Progress in Implementing 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)
   • Review of National Progress in the Implementation of Targets and Strategies 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) 2004
   • Review of Regional Progress in the Implementation of Targets and Strategies 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) 2004
   • Questionnaire on the implementation of the Biwako Millennium Framework towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF)
6. Programme Monitoring and Evaluation; The Disability Perspective in the Context of Development http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/monitor/dme10.htm

III. Millennium Development Goals

1. UNDP, Millennium Development Goals (MDG): The global challenge http://www.undp.org/mdg/abcs.html
2. MDG Targets and Indicators http://www.undp.org/mdg/Millennium%20Development%20Goals.pdf
3. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/pdf/MDG%20Book.pdf
4. 2005 World Summit Outcome adapted by the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly by the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/60/L.1&Lang=E

IV. Inclusive Development

1. Declaration on the Right to Development http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
2. Disability. Poverty and Development http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Pubs/files/disability.pdf
3. World Bank: Development Outreach http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/index.asp

National Disability Law

National Policy on Disability

* For Japan's general disability policy, refer to the Japanese Cabinet Office website.

National Action Plan on Disability

Presentation Materials

Note: Accessible text versions of presentations are available as links within the Programme.

Country Papers

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