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• 2006
• 2005
• Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) for Persons with Print Disability
• Training of Managerial Personnel of Independent Living Centers for PWDs
• Refresher Training Course in Peer-Counseling for PWDs
• Accessible Web-based Information Networking
• Seminar for South-to-South Cooperation for Decades of PWDs
• Training of Initiators for Self-help Groups of PWDs
• Capacity Building of Self-help Organizations of PWDs
• Community-based Rehabilitation
• Training of ICT for Visually Impaired Persons
• Capacity Building of Self-help Organizations of PWDs (CBSHOD)
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• 2004
• 2003

ISLAMABAD DECLARATION

WE THE PARTICIPANTS WITH DISABILITIES FROM 21 COUNTRIES OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC REGION INCLUDING 40 PARTICIPANTS FROM ALL OVER PAKISTAN, OF THE Regional Training Seminar on Capacity Building for Self-help Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (CBSHOD) convened from 22 to 26 September 2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan, HEREBY APPRECIATE THE INITIATIVE TAKEN BY THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL WELFARE & SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN AND ASIA-PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER ON DISABILITIES (APCD) WITH THE COOPERATION OF JICA, (THAI GOVERNMENT) & WORLD BANK, STRONGLY URGE THAT ALL THE GOVERNMENTS OF ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION ARE ENCOURAGED TO;

• Support the UN Convention on Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
• Empower and develop National Cross-Disabilities Self-help Organizations to collaborate with their respective government for ensuring the implementation of a national & international policy frame work on disability; and to
• Develop a mechanism with representatives from Self-help Organizations to advocate to the government for inclusion of Persons with Disabilities at all levels of decision-making; and to
• Ensure equal opportunities for Women with Disabilities through their participation in decision-making processes and the repeal of existing legislation that discriminates against them; and to
• Ensure that accessibility, inclusive education, sign language, information technology and employment opportunities are promoted through the implementation of the existing legal framework or by the enactment of legislation in countries where this does not exist; and to
• Enable the Self-help Organizations working in rural areas to promote the improvement in the quality of life and ensuring equal opportunities to the Persons with Disabilities.
• We the participants of CBSHOD encourage APCD to strengthen the regional collaboration of APCD activities endorsed by UN-ESCAP.

We finally appeal to all the governments of the Asia and Pacific region, Self-help Organizations and development partners including the World Bank and JICA to implement this Declaration by formulating an adequate Plan of Action.

Islamabad, Pakistan
September 26, 2005