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Organized by:
UN ESCAP
(United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
Population and Social Integration
Section, Emerging Social Issues Division
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High-Level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Midpoint Review of the Asian and
Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012
Bangkok, Thailand, 19-21 September 2007
 Outcomes
of the Meeting:
Objectives
of this Meeting:
The
Biwako Millennium Framework
(BMF)
provides a framework for action to further the goals of an inclusive,
barrier-free and rights-based society for persons with disabilities in Asia
and the Pacific. BMF contains seven priority areas for action and four
strategic actions that Governments, in cooperation with civil society, are
urged to pursue to further achieve the goals and commitments of BMF in the
period 2003-2012.
BMF and ESCAP resolution 61/8 states that the midpoint review should be
conducted in 2007, in which current status of the BMF implementation will be
reviewed and the targets and strategic plans for the second half of the
Decade will be formulated.
Against this background, the process of formulating the supplementary
document begun in 2006. Through a number of consultative processes at ESCAP-organized
meetings, involving Governments and disabled people’s organizations (DPOs),
ESCAP Secretariat prepared the document entitled draft “Biwako Plus Five”,
which provided additional actions and strategies for the existing BMF. The
inputs for the draft included the outcome document of the Expert Group
Meeting on Disability in the Pacific: Strengthening Implementation of the
Biwako Millenium Framework held from 28 to 30 March, in Nadi, Fiji. Upon
receiving the final inputs from the members and associate members, the
Secretariat will finalize the draft for the submission to this meeting.
Therefore, the final outputs of this meeting will be the adopted "Biwako
Plus Five" and the report of the meeting.
The High-level Intergovernmental Meeting will be attended by delegates of
the Governments in Asia and the Pacific at the highest level possible, who
are responsible for disability matters. Civil society representatives will
participate in the meeting as observers.
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