UN work on establishing the rights of people with disabilities continues. A workshop will be held in Bangkok Thailand, on 5 July 2005 examining Community-Based Rehabilitation as a tool for poverty alleviation of persons with disabilities. The World Enable coalition site contains a useful bibliography of resources on the topic at:
http://www.worldenable.net/cbr2005/materials.htm The purpose of the workshop is to further develop the Joint Statement on Poverty Alleviation among Persons with Disabilities Look at this in tandem with the concepts of Pro-Poor Tourism:
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Joint Statement on Poverty Alleviation among Persons with Disabilities (adopted on 29 Oct. 2004, Langzhou, China)
- Governments in this region, which have not already done so, are urged to adopt holistic and comprehensive approaches to policies and programmes that are socially inclusive, disability responsive and gender sensitive;
- Integrate disability into overall national development plans, programmes and projects for poverty alleviation and promote multi sectoral coordination of institutions at all levels;
- llocate on predictable and sustainable basis budget and other resources for pro-poor policies and programmes particularly for poverty alleviation among persons with disabilities;
- Emphasize the critical role of partnerships among the public and private sectors and civil society in effective and sustainable poverty alleviation;
- Support capacity-building of persons with disabilities and their organizations;
- Increase efforts at disability sensitizing of society especially law and policy makers, employers, media and major stakeholders;
- Fomation and communication accessibility in order to provide persons with disabilities with opportunities for equal and full participation in all aspects of life;
- Promote and strengthen community approaches including Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) based on the social model as an important component of a key and effective poverty alleviation strategy;
- Promote disability inclusive international and regional cooperation
Further Resources:
http://www.worldenable.net/cbr2005/background.htm
Posted by rollingrains at June 5, 2005 10:42 PM