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Programme
Tuesday, 5
July 2005 |
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0900-0915 |
Opening Session
- Opening statement by Mr
Shigeru Mochida, Deputy Executive Secretary and Officer-in-Charge, a.i.
UN ESCAP
- Opening speech by Mr
Shinichi Hasegawa, Director, ILO’s Regional Office for Asia and the
Pacific
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0915-0930 |
Coffee break |
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0930-1000 |
The objective of the workshop
(by Ms. Kay Nagata, disability focal point, PSIS/ESID, ESCAP) [Presentation
slides] |
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1000-1200 |
Agenda item 1: CBR as a tool for poverty alleviation of persons
with disabilities (PWD) by WHO and the regional resource person, Ms.
Maya Thomas [Paper]
- Economic Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities through CBR,
by Maya Thomas and MJ Thomas [Presentation
Slides]
- Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Strategy for poverty
alleviation, rehabilitation & equal opportunities,
by Chapal Khasnabis, Disability and Rehabilitation (DAR) Team, World
Health Organization [Presentation Slides]
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1200-1330 |
Lunch break |
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1330-1400 |
Agenda Item 2: Role of disabled persons’ organizations (DPOs) and
self-help groups for poverty alleviation by participants from Bangladesh
and China |
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1400-1500 |
Agenda Item 3: Disability integration into overall national
development plans (e.g. micro-financing scheme, pro-poor projects,
marketing assistance, public-private partnership, disability friendly
legal framework, etc.) by participants from China and a representative
from ESCAP
- Microfinance in reducing poverty and vulnerability: its possible
role in empowering persons with disability
[Presentation slides]
- Presentation of Bangladesh paper [Presentation
slides]
- Disability Mainstreaming, by Mr. Peter Coleridge, ILO Consultant
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1500-1600 |
Agenda Item 4: Promotion of “disability inclusive” international
and regional cooperation (panel discussion facilitated by ESCAP,
together with an ODA expert, Chinese participants, ILO and a few others)
[Presentation slides] |
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1600 |
Round-up session and Closing |
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