Workshop on Improving Disability Data for Policy Use
23-26 September 2003, Bangkok, Thailand

Materials

• Basic documents
• Reference documents
• Presentations / Handouts
• Country papers

Documentation for the Workshop

Basic documents:

• ICF: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
• CIF: la Classification internationale du fonctionnement, du handicap et de la santé
  • ICF introduction in Chinese (PDF format, 295KB)
• Towards a Common Language for Functioning, Disability and Health - ICF

Reference documents:

• World Programme of action concerning Disabled Persons (1982) [http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/diswpa00.htm]
• Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities [http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/dissre00.htm]
• "United Nations Millennium Declaration" (General Assembly resolution 55/2) [http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm]
• Asian And Pacific Decade of Disabled Person 1993-2002 [http://www.unescap.org/sps/disability.htm]
• The Biwako Millenium Framework (Summary | Full text)
• Disability Statistics - Available studies on disability
  [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/disability/]

Presentations during the Workshop

• UNESCAP Presentations
  • Meeting Objectives, UNESCAP
  • Opening Statement, Ms. Keiko Okaido, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNESCAP
  • Biwako Millennium Framework  towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities and Developments on a Thematic Convention on Disability, UNESCAP
  • Highlights of Current Disability Statistics Data Collection in the ESCAP Region, UNESCAP
  • Users' needs for assessment Implementation of BMF goals, UNESCAP
  • Biwako Millennium Framework towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities & Developments on a Thematic Convention on Disability - Action Plans, UNESCAP
• WHO Presentations on the ICF
  • International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), WHO
  • Application of ICF in the collection of health and disability data, WHO
  • Design and Implementation of Disability Surveys using the ICF framework, WHO
• The Australian Experience
  • ABS disability data and alignment to the ICF, ABS
  • ICF Australian User Guide and implementation of the ICF in Australia - presentation, AIHW
  • ICF Australian User Guide and implementation of the ICF in Australia - paper, AIHW
  • Collection of information about people with disabilities, ABS
• The Chinese Experience
  • The Disability Statistics in China
• The Indonesian Experience
  • Application of ICF Framework in Morbidity and Disability Survey: Indonesian Experience
• The Philippine Experience
  • Collecting National Disability Data in a Census in the Philippines - presentation, NSO
  • Collecting National Disability Data in a Census - paper, NSO
• The Thailand Experience
  • ICF Experience in Thailand
• Other Presentations
  • Availability of Statistics on the Employment Situation of Persons with Disabilities, ILO Geneva
  • EFA Monitoring and Assessment: module on learners with special needs, Indicators for EFA Monitoring and Assessment, UNESCO
  • Work of the United Nations Statistics Division to Improve Statistics on Persons With Disabilities, UNSD
  • Report on Washington City Group on Disability Statistics, Washington Group

Country papers:

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