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Mission to Cambodia
9 -12 May 2006

The Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) Mission organized a follow-up workshop for APCD ex-trainees with the objectives to 1) help strengthen the capacity of APCD's Associate Organizations to which high-profile APCD ex-trainees of Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) and Self-help Groups (SHG) of People with Disabilities, Web-based Information Networking (WBN) and Information and Communication Technology for Visually Impaired Persons (VIPs) belong, by enhancing their insight for effectiveness and sustainability of their projects and 2) network and collaborate among former trainees and other relevant organizations to facilitate a significant impact.

The mission team was divided into two teams. Team A conducted a follow-up workshop in cooperation with the National Center for Disabled Persons (NCDP) from 10-12 May 2006 to monitor 12 high-profile ex-trainees of CBR and SHG from the Department of Rehabilitation, Cambodia Trust, Veteran International Cambodia, CARITAS Cambodia, National Center of Disabled Persons, and Cambodia Disabled Peoples' Organization. These ex-trainees have been monitored actively since returning from their APCD training by facilitating the national disability policy development on SHG of PWDs, promoting participation of more persons with disabilities and community people in their CBR project, supporting PWD at the grassroots level to develop their own SHG, networking with relevant organizations to improve their activities.

Team B conducted a follow-up workshop for 4 APCD ICT ex-trainees from 10-12 May 2006 with support from the Association of the Blind in Cambodia. All 4 gave a 15 - minute presentation on their post training activities and provided hands-on training facilitated by Mr. Wiraman Niyomphol, APCD's ICT Resource Person.

As for the networking and collaboration among ex-trainees, the Association of the Blind in Cambodia is planning to develop a website to help each other make information accessible. For example, Mr. Srey will create more links to other APCD ex-trainees' organization websites and use the DAC website as a tool for disability-related information sharing and service referring. The ICT for VIP group is collaborating to develop a curriculum, create a textbook, identify the difficulties encountered and the need to conduct ICT for VIP.

The Mission met with DAC to follow up on the networking and collaboration since DAC strongly wishes to collaborate with APCD as a focal point organization.