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Self-help Activities of Disabled Persons in Asia

Self-help Activities of Disabled Persons in Asia. World Bank Brown Bag Lecture Nov. 10, 2004 Yukiko Nakanishi Asia Disability Institute. active self-help groups in Asia. Initiated the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 1993-2002

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Self-help Activities of Disabled Persons in Asia

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  1. Self-help Activities ofDisabled Persons in Asia World Bank Brown Bag Lecture Nov. 10, 2004 Yukiko Nakanishi Asia Disability Institute

  2. active self-help groups in Asia • Initiated the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 1993-2002 • Proposed the 2nd Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 2003-2012 • Promote the convention with government • Lead government to create necessary measures

  3. Membersip

  4. Activities • training workshops for capacity building of disabled persons • promotion of accessibility • income generation • independent living movement

  5. (1) training workshops for capacity building Major organizations supporting capacity building training • Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) • Nippon Foundation • Handicap International • Action Aid

  6. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Training course implemented by self-help organizations • Third Country Seminar for leadership training Conducted with DPI Asia-Pacific Regional Council 16 years • Leadership training of Asian and Oceanian deaf persons with Japanese Federation of the Deaf 5 years • Support For Visually Impaired Persons With Therapeutic Massage（Asia Pacific) with Okinawa Association for the Welfare of the Blind 1 year

  7. Impact of the Third Country Seminar on DPI activities

  8. DPI organized the 19th Regional Training Seminar on Capacity Building for PWDs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan. 2002.

  9. DPI organized the 20th Regional Training Seminar on Capacity Building for PWDs in Shanghai, China, October 2002.

  10. UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) • “self-help organization” is one of 12 areas of the 1st Agenda for Action for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons Examples - Assistance to the development of self-help organizations of disabled persons - Promotion of non-handicapping environments • “self-help organization” is one of 7 priority areas in the Biwako Millennium Framework for the 2nd Decade

  11. 7 Priority Areas in the 2nd Decade

  12. Nippon Foundation Self-help organizations supported by NF • DPI Asia-Pacific Regiona Council • Association of the Blind in Cambodia for establishing office and making action plan

  13. DPI held the First National Conference of Representatives of Lao Disabled Persons in May 1999. (Leadership Training)

  14. DPI organized the 2nd Regional Leadership Training of Women with Disabilities in Thailand in April 2003.

  15. Group of PWDs conducted accessibility survey in National Zoo in Yangon, Myanmar as part of Leadership Training.

  16. The zoo, later, agreed to provide ramps, toilets and other facilities accessible for PWDs. PWDs’ voice was heard.

  17. 1st National Leadership Training Seminar in Afghanistan, Aug. 2003

  18. (2) Promotion of accessibility • DPI-Thailand Demonstration for making the skytrain accessible • DPI-Korea Demonstrating and hanger strike for accessible subway and bus • DPI-India Accessibility check and

  19. Diability movement in Thailand. Demonstration was launched in 1995 requested accessibility in Mass Transit System.

  20. As a result of the demonstration,5 stations of the sky train were remodeled.

  21. Subway system started in 2004 Accessible train station and bathroom

  22. Platform door Space for wheelchair

  23. Demonstration for accessible subway in Seoul, Korea in 2002 The train is approaching Surrounded by policemen

  24. Hunger strike for accessible subway in Seoul, Korea in 2002

  25. (3) Income generation • Persons with Disabilities’ Self-Initiative to Development (PSID) project run by Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (DPI-Bangladesh)

  26. Persons with Disabilities’ Self-Initiative to Development (PSID) • Started in 1999 in 2 districts • Implemented in 13 districts among 64 districts in the country. • Develop financial capacity on management and development of grassroots PWDs organization and establish savings fund of grassroots organization members on weekly basis to ensure members income-generation activities • Other PSID activities are professional capacity building and skill training, network, assistive devices production, information and referral, organizing meetings, employment exchange, marketing of PWDs product, recreational and cultural activities, accommodation and administrative works

  27. PSID participants in 2003

  28. Income generation activities in PSID project Variety shops Weight measurement shop Paper bag making

  29. (4) Independent living movement • Japan • Korea • Thailand • Pakistan • Philippines

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