Welcome to

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• Welcome to

Disabled Peoples International Asia-Pacific
Region DPI/AP
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Topics

• Introduction to DPI
• DPI/AP Networking and Collaboration
• DPI/APs Activities (2007 2010)

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What is DPI/AP ?

• Established in 1981 in Singapore to promote
  human rights of disabled people through full
  participation, equalization of opportunity and
  development.
• Promoting full-participation and equalization of
  opportunity of persons with disabilities.
• A network of national self-help organizations or
  assemblies of disabled people
• Organization of Persons with cross Disabilities

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DPI Logo

• -The GREEN is to symbolise the countryside. Green
  stands for freshness, springtime and growth and
  hoe for a better age for all.
• - WHITE has always been the colour for peace and
  neutrality, harmony and acceptance.
• - RED, the life-blood of our young movement, its
  vibrance, its vigour, its fertility, its joy and
  happiness in its will achieve equality,
  fraternity and freedom with justice.

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Motto

• Nothing about us without us.
• (Voice of our own is the ground breaking,
• and We are expert on our own disability )

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Goal

• Full participation and equal opportunity of
  persons with disabilities in society

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Mission

• To strengthen the Regional Development Office to
  serve as a regional focal point of MNAs and the
  disability movement in the region
• To establish new self-help organizations and
  national assemblies of persons with disabilities
  in developing countries
• To promote and strengthen the movement and
  network of WWDs at the regional and sub-regional
  level
• To promote IL concept and IL movement, including
  the establishment of regional IL network
• To promote the barrier-free movement and
  accessibility in built environments and
• To strengthen and promote international and
  regional collaboration

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Vision

• A person with a disability as one who is
  educated, socially secure, economically
  productive and happily living with his/her own
  family in a barrier-free environment
• A DPI-AP National Assembly as an effective,
  democratic, self-reliant organization of men and
  women of all disability groups, able to work for
  the full participation and equalization of
  opportunities for persons with disabilities in
  every DPI country
• DPI-AP as an effective, democratic and
  gender-sensitive regional organization able to
  partner with governments and other international
  agencies for the mobilization of technical and
  other resources for its members, continuously
  expanding in terms of cross-disability and
  country representation

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Focus

• Promote the human rights of persons with
  disabilities
• Promote economic and social inclusion of persons
  with disabilities
• Promote barrier free society
• Develop and support Self help organizations of
  persons with disabilities

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Members
North Asia South Asia Southeast Asia Oceania
1. China 2. Japan 3. Korea 4. Mongolia 1. Bangladesh 2. India 3. Sri Lanka 4. Pakistan 5. Nepal 1. Cambodia 2. Indonesia 3. Laos 4. Malaysia 5. Thailand 6. Singapore 7. Philippines 1. Australia 2. Cook Islands 3. Fiji 4. Maldives 5. Vanuatu 6. Solomon Islands 7. Samoa 8. New Zealand 9. Papua New Guinea
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DPI/AP Organization Structure
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Networking and collaboration
International Disability Alliance

• Disabled Peoples International (DPI)
• Inclusion International (II)
• Rehabilitation International (RI)
• The World Blind Union (WBU)
• World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)
• The World Network of Users and Survivors of
  Psychiaty (WNUSP)
• Arab Organization of Disabled People (AODP)
• European Disability Forum (EDF)
• The Latin American Network of Non-Governmental
  Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and
  their Families (RIADIS)

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Networking and collaboration
Inter -Governmental Organization

• AusAID
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Behinderung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
  e.V./Disability and Development Cooperation
  (bezev) under The Federal Ministry (BMZ) The
  Ministry of German
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Swedish International Development Cooperation
  Agency (SIDA)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

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Networking and collaboration
International Development Agency

• UN Agencies
• Abilis Foundation
• The Nippon Foundation
• Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability
  (APCD)
• Handicap International (HI)
• World Vision
• Ext.

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Networking and collaboration
Civil Society Organizations

• The Kenan Institute Asia
• Forum Asia for Human Security and Development
• Tourism Authority of Thailand
• The Institute of Health Promotion for People with
  Disability
• National Electronics and Computer Technology
  Center
• Peoples Empowerment Foundation

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Networking and collaboration
University (Thailand)

• Mahidol University
• Kasertsart University
• Ramkhamhaeng University
• Thammasat University
• Suan Dusit Rajabhat University
• Chulalongkorn University

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Networking and collaboration
Entrepreneur (Thailand)

• Nokia (Thailand)
• Thailand Creative Design
• Phramongkutklao Hospital
• Channel 3
• British Council
• Thailand Cable TV Association
• Hotel and Resort

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The International Classification of Function
(ICF) developed by the World Health Organization
(WHO)
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Gender, Disability and Social concerned

• Women with disabilities are the poorest of the
  poor
• two-fold but separate oppressions,
• of being a woman in a sexist society and being
  persons with disability in an able society.

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DPI-AP Activities (Regional)
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Accessible Tourism
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Capacity Development of Self-help Organizations
of Persons with Disabilities
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Capacity Development of Self-help Organizations
of Persons with Disabilities
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ASEAN
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ASEAN
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Inter regional cooperation Empowerment
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Inter regional cooperation Empowerment
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Promotion of the CRPD
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Promotion of the CRPD
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APNIL
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APNIL
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Wheelchair Assistance Projects
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Wheelchair Assistance Projects
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Wheelchair Assistance Projects
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DPI-AP Activities (National)
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Telecommunication
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Women with Disabilities
Group Discussion
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Women with Disabilities
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Women with Disabilities
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Accessible Tourism
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Accessible Tourism
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Capacity Development of Self-Help Organizations
of Persons with Disabilities
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Capacity Development of Self-Help Organizations
of Persons with Disabilities
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Awareness Raising by DET
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Youth with Disabilities Empowerment
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Youth with Disabilities Empowerment sabilities
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Employability
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Employability
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Employability
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Health and Security
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Barrier Free Society
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Barrier Free Society
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Barrier Free Society
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Barrier Free Society
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Barrier Free Society
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Universal Design Workshop
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Media Advocacy
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Awareness raising to ASEAN
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Awareness raising to promotes ASEAN supported by
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Thank You