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Mission Report to Uzbekistan
3-8 March 2006

APCD sent a mission to Uzbekistan and identified the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population as APCD's focal point in the government sector. On 6 March 2006, Mr. Inakov Alisher Kazakouich, Head of Social Protection and Support Department and Ms. Kanitta Kamolwat, Director of APCD signed the Minutes of Meeting, agreeing to collaborate on disability matters. The Mission had opportunities to visit some non-governmental organizations, and learn about them as well as briefly present the APCD Project. Organizations included the MILLENNIUM Youth Social Legal and Rehabilitation Center, Uzbek Association of the Blind, Uzbekistan Blind Society's Training Centre, Blind Society's Department of Tashkent, Uzbek Society of Deaf, and Uzbek Society of Disabled People. Associations primarily organize production programs for their members, some of which currently have difficulties in terms of finances and availability of raw materials. They are supported by the government in terms of tax.

The mission met with ex-participants of APCD's CBSHOD Seminars (Viet Nam in 2004 and Pakistan in 2005), Ms. Mahmadkulova Guljahon, Chairperson of MILLENNIUM and Ms Nodira Yuldasheva, Secretary of MILLENNIUM. After their return to Uzbekistan, they organized a seminar among local non-governmental organizations with 14 deciding to form the National Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations for Disabled Persons. The Mission exchanged the possibility of future collaboration on promoting self-help organizations of persons with disabilities, as APCD could mobilize resources to support the activity initiated by the ex-participant of APCD. The chairperson of MILLENNIUM expressed her wish that MILLENNIUM be developed and collaborate with international organizations through membership of the Disabled Peoples' International (DPI).