Programme :
The Purpose of the Workshop
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Kay Nagata, UNESCAP
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Workshop on Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) and Poverty Alleviation of
Persons with Disabilities
Bangkok, 5 July 2005
The purpose of the Workshop
By Kay Nagata, UNESCAP
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Poverty and disability (dynamism)
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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 .
Four Strategies
- National Plan of Action on Disability
- Promotion of right-based approach (Convention)
- Disability Statistics
- Community-based Approaches to empowerment of PWD
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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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Poverty alleviation and the BMF
- Integration of disability concerns in the implementation of the MDG
goals;
- Poverty alleviation through capacity-building, social security and
sustainable livelihood programmes;
- Promotion of CBR and community-based initiatives;
- International cooperation
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The time-frame for disability-related events
- 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 or
2008????;
- The Mid-point Review of the BMF in 2007;
- Achievement of MDG goals and the global review of MDG;
- Twin Track Approach of (i) “disability integration” and (ii)
empowerment of PWD (e.g. CBR projects, capacity building, etc.)
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Two main paradigms
- Development model: Twin track approach (disability integration into
mainstream projects, CBR, poverty alleviation, MDG goals, etc.)
- Human rights- based approach: The Convention for PWD, national laws,
self-help groups, shift from medical model to social model, etc.;
- No conflict --- rights based development
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Technical (international) cooperation
- Twin Track Approach:
- Disability Integration and Empowerment of PWD;
- Disability impact assessment integrated in development projects;
- Participation of PWD in planning, designing, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of overseas projects;
- Assessment tools/impact analysis questionnaire
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UN ESCAP’s initiatives
- UN ESCAP/CDPF Field Study cum Regional Workshop on Poverty Alleviation
among Persons with Disabilities, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China25-29
October 2004;
- This workshop is follow up to the China workshop and the 2nd phase
(Joint Statement, the outcome document);
- The emphasis is CBR for poverty alleviation;
- 1 Day official session to be followed by the informal session on CBR
(tomorrow), in conjunction with ILO/ESCAP workshop on multinational
corporation and hiring disabled persons (tomorrow), and TWG-DC (7-8 July
2005);
- Organized under the framework of the Taskforce on Employment and
Poverty Alleviation of TWG-DC, and co-sponsored by the UN ESCAP and ILO.
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Agenda of the workshop
- Agenda Item 1: CBR as a tool for poverty alleviation of persons with
disabilities (PWD);
- Agenda Item 2: Role of disabled persons’ organizations (DPOs) and
self-help groups for poverty alleviation;
- 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.);
- Agenda Item 4: Promotion of “disability inclusive” international and
regional cooperation;
- Informal session on CBR on the Day 2.
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The outcome of our discussion
- Informal;
- To be used for the mid-point review of the BMF in 2007, entitled “the
Biwako plus 5: Forward Looking Strategies towards 2013”;
- To be included in the discussion and agenda at high level
intergovernmental meetings, such as the ESCAP commission sessions and the
Committee sessions (on social development) --- will give the vision and
guidance for future ESCAP workshop on disability.
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Thank You
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