Workshop Brief
DATE AND VENUE
- Date: 25-29 October 2004 (Monday to Friday)
- Venue: TBD
Opening session
The Workshop will be opened at 0900 hours on Monday 25 October 2004. Please refer to the detailed provisional agenda and programme
or work on specific information on subsequent sessions.
Meeting Schedule
Subject to confirmation, the daily schedule will be as follows:
Morning session - 0900 to 1200 hours
Afternoon session - 1330 to 1800 hours
See the provisional programme of work for details.
Registration and identification badges
Participants are requested to register and obtain Workshop badges in
advance of the start of the field trip. Registration will be opened from
1200 to 2000 hours on Sunday 24 October 2004 near the front counter at the
lobby of the Hotel, and from 0800 to 0845 on Monday 25 October 2004.
Participants who are not able to register at the specified time are
requested to do so on subsequent days at the venue (maybe during the field
trip), to ensure that their names appear on the list of participants.
Without registration, names of participants will not be included in the
list.
For identification and security, participants are requested to wear
their badges at all times during the Workshop/the field study trips and at
social functions.
Working language of the meeting
Working language of the workshop is English and Chinese. There will be
simultaneous interpretation in English and Chinese at plenary sessions (the
3 days of the workshop segment of this event). There will be no simultaneous
interpretation facilities for working group sessions, the field study tours
and the closing.
Workshop Documents
Participants in the workshop segment (27-29 October 2004) are requested
to bring a complete set of the documents (available from
www.worldenable.net/cdpf2004/materials.htm) by downloading and
printing, prior to the Workshop, as only limited copies of such documents
will be available at the workshop venue.
Participants wishing to circulate any documents at the Workshop are
requested to consult Ms Kay Nagata, Social Affairs Officer, Population and
Social Integration Section (e-mail: nagata @ un.org) and are requested to
bring a sufficient number of copies for distribution at the Workshop.
There will be no photocopy service available for this request. The
Workshop Secretariat cannot undertake to reproduce documents or statements
submitted by individual participants. Participants are advised to consult
Ms Kay Nagata on any matter pertaining to the issuance or distribution of
documents at the Workshop.
Contact with the UNESCAP secretariat
The address of the UNESCAP secretariat is as follows:
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
The United Nations Building
Rajadamnern Nok Avenue
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66 2) 288-1481 (direct), 288-2315 (direct), 288-1000 (switchboard)
Fax: (66 2) 288-1030
E-mail: nagata @ un.org or akiyama @ un.org
For additional information, participants may contact the secretariat of this meeting,
Ms. Kay Nagata, Social Affairs Officer, Population and Social Integration Section,
Emerging Social Issues Division at (66 2) 288-1481, nagata @ un.org or Ms. Aiko Akiyama,
Project Expert on Disability, Population and Social Integration Section, Emerging Social
Issues Division at (66 2) 288 – 2315, akiyma @ un.org.
Local Host Organization
Contact person at the local host organization:
Mr Eric G. Zhang
Director, International Affairs Department
China Disabled Persons' Federation
44 Beichizi Stree, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100006, China
Tel: +86-10-6513-9719 Fax: +86-10-6513-9722
E-mail: gib @ cdpf.org.cn
Financial and administrative arrangements
UN ESCAP will cover the cost of travel and stay of UN ESCAP sponsored participant at
United Nations established rates. Kindly note that UN ESCAP will not assume responsibility
for the following, under any circumstances:
- All expenses in the home country incidental to travel abroad, including expenditure for
visa, medical examination, inoculations and other such miscellaneous items and internal
travel to and from the airport of arrival and departure in the home country;
- Salary and related allowances for the participants during the period of the Meeting;
- Costs incurred by participants in respect of travel insurance, accident insurance,
medical or dental bills or hospitalisation fees in connection with their attending the
Meeting;
- Compensation in the event of death or disability of participants in connection with
their attending the Meeting;
- Any loss or damage to personal property of participants while attending the Meeting or
losses or damages claimed by third parties as a result of negligence on the part of the
participants;
- Any other expenses of a personal nature, not directly related to the purpose of the
Meeting.
- Eligible participants whose attendance are sponsored by UNESCAP will be provided with a
daily subsistence allowance during the 2nd day of the Meeting at prevailing United Nations
rates in local currency.
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