Self-help Activities ofDisabled Persons in Asia

World Bank Brown Bag Lecture Nov. 10, 2004

Yukiko Nakanishi

Asia Disability Institute

active self-help groups in Asia

• Initiated the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 1993-2002

• Proposed the 2nd Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 2003-2012

• Promote the convention with government• Lead government to create necessary

measures

Membersip DPI WBU (nat’l org.) WFD WFDB WNUSP II

Bangladesh ● ● ● ●

Bhutan

Cambodia ● ●

China ● ● ● (Taiwan) ●

India ● ● ● ●

Indonesia ● ● ● ●

Japan ● ● ● ● ● ●

Korea ● ● ● ● ●

Lao PDR ●

Malaysia ● ● ● ●

Maldives ● ●

Mongolia ● ● ●

Myammer

Nepal ● ● ●

Pakistan ● ● ● ●

Philippines ● ● ● ●

Singapore ● ● ●

Sri Lanka ● ● ● ●

Thailand ● ● ● ●

Vietnam ●

Activities

(1) training workshops for capacity building of disabled persons

(2) promotion of accessibility(3) income generation(4) independent living movement

(1) training workshops for capacity building

Major organizations supporting capacity building training

• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Nippon Foundation

• Handicap International

• Action Aid

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Training course implemented by self-help organizations• Third Country Seminar for leadership training Conducted with DPI Asia-P

acific Regional Council16 years

• Leadership training of Asian and Oceanian deaf persons with Japanese Federation of the Deaf

5 years• Support For Visually Impaired Persons With Therapeutic Massage （ Asi

a Pacific) with Okinawa Association for the Welfare of the Blind 1 year

1980s 1986 Korea1987 Pakistan1988 Bangkok

Struggled to get recognitionElite leaders with good educational background

1st half of 1990s

1990 Fiji1991 Singapore1992 China1993 Philippines1994 Indonesia

Leaders from the grass rootsNot yet strong leadershipStrengthened the organizations

2nd half of 1990s

1995 India1996 Bangladesh1997 Bangkok1998 Fiji1999 Sri Lanka

More young leaders with experience of grassroot activities The seminars helped them to exchange their expertise and provide skills to manage the organization.

1st half of 2000s

2000 Lao PDR2001 Cambodia2002 China needs to increase awareness of PWD regarding their human rights2003 Nepal2004 Pakistan

2nd half of 2000s

2005 Pakistan emphasis on independent living movement

Impact of the Third Country Seminar on DPI activities

DPI organized the 19th Regional Training Seminar on Capacity Buil

ding for PWDs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan. 2002.

DPI organized the 20th Regional Training Seminar on Capacity Building for PWDs in Shanghai, China, October 2002.

UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

• “self-help organization” is one of 12 areas of the 1st Agenda for Action for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons

　 Examples　 - Assistance to the development of self-help org

anizations of disabled persons　 - Promotion of non-handicapping environments• “self-help organization” is one of 7 priority areas

in the Biwako Millennium Framework for the 2nd Decade

Women withdisabilities

Early detection, earlyintervention

and education

Training and employment,including self-employment

Access to builtenvironments and public

transport

Access to information andcommunications, including

information andcommunications and assistive

technologies

Poverty alleviation throughcapacity-building, socialsecurity and sustainablelivelihood programmes

Self-help organizationsof persons with

disabilities and relatedfamily and parental

associations

7 Priority Areas in the 2nd Decade

Nippon Foundation

Self-help organizations supported by NF• DPI Asia-Pacific Regiona Council• Association of the Blind in Cambodia

for establishing office and making action plan

DPI held the First National Conference of Representatives of Lao Disabled Persons in May 1999. (Leadership Training)

DPI held the First National Conference of Representatives of Lao Disabled Persons in May 1999. (Leadership Training)

DPI organized the 2nd Regional Leadership Training of Women with Disabilities in Thailand in April 2003.

Group of PWDs conducted accessibility survey in National Zoo in Y

angon, Myanmar as part of Leadership Training.

The zoo, later, agreed to provide ramps, toilets and other facilities accessible for PWDs. PWDs’ voice was heard.

1st National Leadership Training Seminar in Afghanistan, Aug. 2003

(2) Promotion of accessibility

• DPI-Thailand Demonstration for making the skytrain ac

cessible• DPI-Korea Demonstrating and hanger strike for acce

ssible subway and bus• DPI-India Accessibility check and

Diability movement in Thailand. Demonstration was launched in 1995 requested accessibility in Mass Transit System.

As a result of the demonstration, 5 stations of the sky train were remodeled.

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Subway system started in 2004

Accessible train station and bathroom

•

Space for wheelchair

Platform door

The train is approaching

Surrounded by policemen

Demonstration for accessible subway in Seoul, Korea in 2002

Hunger strike for accessible subway in Seoul, Korea in 2002

(3) Income generation

• Persons with Disabilities’ Self-Initiative to Development (PSID) project run by Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (DPI-Bangladesh)

Persons with Disabilities’ Self-Initiative

to Development (PSID) • Started in 1999 in 2 districts• Implemented in 13 districts among 64 districts in the country.• Develop financial capacity on management and development o

f grassroots PWDs organization and establish savings fund of grassroots organization members on weekly basis to ensure members income-generation activities

• Other PSID activities are professional capacity building and skill training, network, assistive devices production, information and referral, organizing meetings, employment exchange, marketing of PWDs product, recreational and cultural activities, accommodation and administrative works

PSID participants in 2003　Mem ber Total

District Male Female

Chandpur 187 128 315

Kurigram 246 191 437

Jamalpur 275 333 608

Tangail Sadar 76 29 105

Tangail Nagarpur 72 47 119

Manikganji 264 332 596

Barisal 213 176 389

Bandarban 168 189 357

Mymenshingh 542 387 929

Bogra 662 421 1083

Moulvibazar 501 736 877

Narshingdi, 378 517 895

Noakhali No date aailable

Total 3584 3126 6710

Weight measurement shop

Variety shops

Paper bag making

Income generation activities in PSID project

(4) Independent living movement

• Japan

• Korea

• Thailand

• Pakistan

• Philippines