APCD Activities in Brief 2007
January - March
Networking and collaboration has been APCD's highlight in this quarter. APCD collaborated with various external organizations to organize training courses to empower persons with disabilities in the region. The big event was the Pacific Sub-regional Training on Capacity-Building for Self-help Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (CBSHOD) held in Papua New Guinea to expand the disability network with the South Pacific Sub-regional countries. Tremendous outcomes were expressed from the regional training. In addition, APCD networked with other disability-related organizations to fully support the International Conference on Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities held in Phuket.
Apart from trainings, APCD followed-up with focal point and associate organizations in several countries to monitor activities implemented. APCD's stakeholders were impressed with the networking and collaboration to empower persons with disabilities in Malaysia, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Lao PDR, India, and China.
As for APCD's training courses, APCD has succeeded in hosting the ICT for All: Training of ICT for Persons with Print Disabilities, Refresher Training to Strengthen Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) through a Participatory Comprehensive Approach and the CBR Network Seminar with participants from Cambodia, China, Fiji, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Viet Nam.
In this quarter, APCD networked with disability-related organizations in China and India to expand the development of the information networking. From this, APCD has received fruitful coordination to exchange information and improved the techniques to localize disability-related information to the grassroots organizations.
APCD has also promoted and support our stakeholders the highlights and the ratification procedures of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Signing Ceremony of the Minutes of Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) Project Phase II
Mr. Kitti Samanthai, Director General, Office of Welfare Promotion, Protection and Empowerment of the Vulnerable Groups (OPP) together with Mr. Takao Toda, Group Director, Human Development Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed the Minutes of Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) Project Phase II on 27 April 2007 at OPP. The second-phase project aims at improving the efficiency and sustainability of the regional cooperation between the center (APCD) and governmental, non-governmental as well as disabled people's organizations to maximize the capacity of the center. Participants of the signing ceremony were representatives of Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA).
