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INVITATION DESA/DSPD Forum on Disability and Development 1 Operationalizing the Post-2015 Development Agenda for Persons with Disabilities United Nations Headquarters New York Conference Room 4 | 12 June 2015 | 10 am – 1 pm As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals draws closer, the international community is finalizing a post-2015 development agenda. The emerging agenda will include the Sustainable Development Goals and the recently adopted Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 among others. The Forum will brainstorm on issues and strategies to overcome challenges and to further mainstreaming of disability in global development agenda beyond 2015, with its focus around two specific topics: 1) disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response, and 2) inclusive and sustainable urban development. The roundtable style event will discuss and identify entry points and emerging opportunities for actions and strategies to further mainstream disability in critical areas of the post 2015 development agenda. This will be guided by a focus on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and resilience - humanitarian crises responses and urban development among other areas that are critical to sustainable development beyond 2015. Tentative programme Opening Ms. Daniela Bas, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA H.E. Ambassador Koki Muli Grignon, Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Professor Nora Groce, University of London Mr. Mika Kontiainen, AusAID Round Table 2: Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development Ms. Yamina Djacta, UN Habitat Mr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCO Mr. Mukhtar AlShibani, GAATES Mr. Michael Replogle, Deputy Commissioner on Transportation, New York City Dr. Michael Fembek, Zero Project Ms. Gian Wild, AccessibilityOz Mr. Yasunobu Ishii, The Nippon Foundation Round Table 1: Disability-Inclusive 1 The Forum on Disability and Development, officially launched in 2013, is an initiative of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). It aims to contribute to the on-going global efforts towards an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post- 2015 development framework and agenda, through an exchange of experiences, expertise and innovative ideas to develop practical solutions for pressing issues with regard to disability- inclusion in development. UN REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR MISION PERMANENTE ANTE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS Barbado s

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Page 1: · Web viewThe roundtable style event will discuss and identify entry points and emerging opportunities for actions and strategies to further mainstream disability in critical areas

INVITATION

DESA/DSPD Forum on Disability and Development1 Operationalizing the Post-2015 Development Agenda for Persons with Disabilities

United Nations Headquarters New YorkConference Room 4 | 12 June 2015 | 10 am – 1 pm

As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals draws closer, the international community is finalizing a post-2015 development agenda. The emerging agenda will include the Sustainable Development Goals and the recently adopted Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 among others.

The Forum will brainstorm on issues and strategies to overcome challenges and to further mainstreaming of disability in global development agenda beyond 2015, with its focus around two specific topics: 1) disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response, and 2) inclusive and sustainable urban development.

The roundtable style event will discuss and identify entry points and emerging opportunities for actions and strategies to further mainstream disability in critical areas of the post 2015 development agenda. This will be guided by a focus on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and resilience - humanitarian crises responses and urban development among other areas that are critical to sustainable development beyond 2015.

Tentative programme

OpeningMs. Daniela Bas, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, DESAH.E. Ambassador Koki Muli Grignon, Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United NationsProfessor Nora Groce, University of LondonMr. Mika Kontiainen, AusAID

Round Table 2: Inclusive and Sustainable Urban DevelopmentMs. Yamina Djacta, UN HabitatMr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCOMr. Mukhtar AlShibani, GAATESMr. Michael Replogle, Deputy Commissioner on Transportation, New York CityDr. Michael Fembek, Zero ProjectMs. Gian Wild, AccessibilityOzMr. Yasunobu Ishii, The Nippon FoundationMr. Javed Abidi, Disabled People’s InternationalMs. Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Google

Round Table 1: Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, Resilience and Humanitarian ResponseDr. Alex Camacho, Vice Presidency of EcuadorMs. Elina Palm, UNISDRDr. Hiroshi Kawamura, Disability Inclusive DRR CaucusProfessor Tatsuki Shigeo, Doshisha UniversityProfessor Kamal Lamichhane, University of TsukubaMs. Tiziana Oliva, Leonard Cheshire DisabilityDr. Elizabeth Lockwood, CBMProf. Mary Crock, University of SydneyPeter Lunding, World Humanitarian Summit

1 The Forum on Disability and Development, officially launched in 2013, is an initiative of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). It aims to contribute to the on-going global efforts towards an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-2015 development framework and agenda, through an exchange of experiences, expertise and innovative ideas to develop practical solutions for pressing issues with regard to disability-inclusion in development.

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