Agenda Item III
Proposed Steps for Biwako+5 Forward-looking strategies for the 2nd half of the Decade

By Aiko Akiyama
Project Expert on Disability
UN ESCAP

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Proposed Steps for Biwako+5 Forward-looking strategies for the 2nd half of the Decade By Aiko Akiyama Project Expert on Disability

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

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Developments in disability field at large for the last 3 years.

• Elaboration of the international convention
• Comprehensive CBR approach promoted (Joint Position Paper 2004 by ILO/UNESCO/WHO)
• Twin track approach in development
• Inclusive education promoted

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Proposed Steps for Biwako+5: Forward-looking strategies for the 2nd half of the Decade - 2008-2012

• Need for
  • Assessment of the BMF implementation at the mid-point in 2007
  • Review and reengineering of the BMF strategies for the 2nd half
• Key thinking in the strategy setting:
  • Well-focused
  • Feasible/action-oriented
  • Result based
  • Responsive to the current trend

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Proposed Steps for Biwako+5: Forward-looking strategies for the 2nd half of the Decade - 2008-2012

• Reference
  • Beijing +5
  • Proposed supplementary rules
• Possible component
  • Strategy for action
  • Regional and inter-regional collaboration
  • Empowerment/ capacity building
  • Right-based

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Proposed Steps for Biwako+5: Forward-looking strategies for the 2nd half of the Decade - 2008-2012

• Self-help organizations of persons with disabilities and DPOs (Priority area 1)
  • Setting-up a cross-disability organization.
  • Government support for DPOs and/or self-help organizations
• Gender mainstreaming (Priority area 2)
  • Mainstreaming of women in disability organizations
  • Leadership training of disabled women
• Education (Priority area 3)
  • Inclusive Education
  • A resource room in a regular school
  • Special education, particularly, training of sign language teachers
• Employment and income generation (Priority area 4)
  • Self-employment
  • Multinational corporations as potential employers
  • Private-public partnership
• Accessibility including information access (Priority area 5 and 6)
  • Setting up a disability-friendly industrial standard
  • Universal design including setting up a national building code
  • Accessible transportation
  • DAISY
  • Development and recognition of sign language as a national language
• Poverty alleviation and livelihoods (Priority area 7)
  • Disability-inclusive micro-credit/micro-insurance
  • Disability-inclusive development projects
  • Disability-budgeting
• National plan of action on disability (Strategy 1)
  • A comprehensive disability policy
  • Annual plan of action and budget allocation at national and local levels
  • Development or revitalization of the national coordination committee (NCC)
• International Convention (Strategy 2)
  • Disabled leaders included in a Government delegation for the Ad Hoc Committee sessions at New York
  • Regional campaign for promoting the timely ratification of the Convention by the members states (possibly without reservations)
  • A rights-based national law (e.g. anti-discrimination law)
  • Development and revitalization of the national monitoring mechanism
  • Development of a national forum of cross-disability NGOs for monitoring
• Disability statistics and indicators (Strategy 3)
  • Disability statistics based on social model definition (e.g. ICF)
  • Development of disability indicators
• Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) (Strategy 4)
  • CBR for poverty alleviation and employment creation
  • CBR in inclusive education
  • Micro-credit for disabled entrepreneurs
• Inter-regional collaboration (Cooperation and support)
  • Twin track approach beyond our region
  • Support mechanism for regional decades (e.g. Asian and Pacific Decade, Arab Decade and African Decade)
  • Partnership with INGOs and new actors
• Special groups (Supplementary)
  • Persons with psychiatric disabilities and other undefined diseases/ impairments
  • Children with disabilities
  • Rural persons with disabilities

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Time Frame

[Diagram showing:

• June 2005: TWG-DC 10th Session, Formation of the Working Group
• October 2005: Regional Workshop on the National Plan of Action, 1st review of the Biwako+5
• Early 2006: 2nd review
• Late 2006: 3rd review
• Early 2007: 4th review
• October 2007: EGM, Finalize Draft
• October 2007: High Level Intergovernmental Meeting, Submission & adoption]

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Working Groups for Biwako +5

• SHO, gender mainstreaming, special groups
• Education, employment
• Poverty alleviation, sustainable livelihood, community-based rehabilitation, inter-regional collaboration
• International convention, disability statistics and indicators, national plan of action, accessibility

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Thank you

UNESCAP Disability Website: http://unescap.org/esid/psis/disability/index.asp

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