During the three days of the second roundtable, participants engaged in a number of activites relating to the disability issues being discussed. These included:
- Indicators to measure the success of mainstreaming initiatives
- Principles for engaging with mainstream development organisations
- A petition to include disability in the Millennium Development Goals
- Recommendations for the third roundtable in Cambodia.
Participants also presented their own experiences to the group. These included;
- Community approaches to Handicap in Development (CAHD) - Ingar During, Chrisstoffel Blindenmission and Handicap International
- Mainstreaming disability in community development in South Asia - Rajendra KR, Leonard Cheshire International South Asia
- Orissa State Disability Network - Sruti Mohapatra, Swabhiman
- World BAnk India Disability Study - Philip O'Keefe, World Bank
- The work of the Department for International Development, India - Dennis Pain, DFID
- The three-legged stool of disability - Philippa Thomas, Healthlink Worldwide
The individual activities and talks are presented below:
| Summary of activities |
Indicators to measure the success of
mainstreaming initiatives - during the three days there
was much debate on the definitions of 'mainstreaming' and 'inclusion',
as a way to move the discussion further a group of participants
worked on a set of indicators that could be used to measure the
impact of mainstreaming or inclusive activities. Two sets of indicators
were developed for use at a macro and micro level. |
| Principles for engaging
with mainstream development organisations - Participants felt
strongly that disabled people's organisations and mainstream development
organisations need to collaborate. If organisations continue to treat
disability as a separate issue then disabled people will never be
included in mainstream society. Read the 10 principles for engaging with mainstream development organisations (Word doc 1 page, 45 KB) |
| Petition about the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) and disability to be sent to the UN - group
work focused on how to include disability as part of the MDGs Read the petition (Word, 2 pages 51 KB) |
Recommendations
for roundtable 3 - Group work created a set of recommendations
for the teams invovled with the planning of the next roundtable,
including ideas for presentations and topics for discussion. |
The following presentations were shown at the roundtable
| Summary of presentations |
| Community approaches
to Handicap in Development (CAHD), Ingar During, Chisstoffel Blindenmission
and Handicap International - this presentation outlined the
CAHD approach and shared strategies for the inclusion of people with
disabilities in development activities Download a summary of Ingar's presentation here (Word, 2 pages 35 KB) |
Mainstreaming
disability in community development in South Asia - Rajendra KR,
Leonard Cheshire International South Asia - Rajendra shared
one of Leonard Cheshire's project proposals which aims develop employment
and education rights for people with disabilities. If the EU funds
the project work will commence in April 2006 and will include India,
Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. |
Orissa
State Disability Network - Sruti Mohapatra, Swabhiman
-The Orissa State Disability Network states: “It
is our belief that Advocacy and Awareness are the strongest tools
available to change the way society perceives disabled people. We
feel that disabled people and disability groups should be encouraged
to take the leadership role in this crusade”. |
World
Bank India Disability Study - Philip O'Keefe, World Bank
- The World Bank India Disability Study is aimed at policy makers,
DPOs, and NGOs. It is meant to searve as an evidence base for demonstrating
the importance of the disability issue to the Bank. |
| The
work of the Department for International Development (DFID), India
- Dennis Pain, DFID - The presentation provided participants
with information about DFID India, its approach to disability and
the way it works with other organisations. Download a summary of Dennis's presentation here (Word doc , 2 pages 41 KB) |
The
three-legged stool of disability - Philippa Thomas, Healthlink Worldwide
- Philippa based her presentation on the research she has been conducting
as part of the Disability KaR programme. |
