[PDF-members] [APRCEM) Workability Asia-International Conference 2023

Tue May 23 03:53:37 +12 2023

Dear Friends,

Greetings!

I have the honor to invite you and interested participants as an independent person or a representative of organizations/companies to attend the “Workability Asia-International Conference 2023”, held from September 12 to 14, 2023 in InterContinental Dhaka, Bangladesh. The conference’s main theme is “Promotion of Employment for Persons with Disabilities” and 3 sub-themes determined by our scientific committee of the conference organizing committee formed under the leadership of Mr. Md. Nojibur Rahman, former Principal Secretary to Hon’ble Prime Minister and Currently Chairman of Capital Market Stabilization Fund (CMSF). The conference is organized by Workability Asia and Hosted by BPKS. Please visit the registration and details information link: https://www.workabilityasia.com/.../wasia-conference-2023/

We are looking forward to having you with us and seek your valuable participation which will contribute to a revolutionary change in line with the theme. It will be exemplarily bringing together the led industry owners and their chambers’ leaders to be proactive about inclusive employment of people with disabilities. Overall, we believed, it will increase the income of industrialists and contribute to the sustainable development of the world including Asia and Bangladesh.

We appreciate also your kind help to disseminate the information among your valuable networks and friends. Please note that we are trying to convince InterContinental Dhaka to reduce the conference participants' room rate which includes breakfast, airport transfer and received.   

Again, if you have any questions, please send us an email to: cotombpks at gmail.com

Wish you the very best regards,

Abdus Sattar Dulal, UNESCAP Disability Rights Champion

Member Secretary, Conference Organizing Committee (COC) 

Founder & Executive Director

Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS)

Phone: +8801711595049 (WhatsApp available)

From: asia-pacific-disability-constituency-aprcem at googlegroups.com <asia-pacific-disability-constituency-aprcem at googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Latoa Halatau-Talagi MNZM
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 5:49 PM
To: 'Murali PADMANABHAN' <murali.padmanabhan at wfp.org>; 'Villaney Remengesau' <lanysmile85 at gmail.com>; asia-pacific-disability-constituency-aprcem at googlegroups.com
Cc: 'Simon Hoeiberg Olsen' <simonhoeiberg at gmail.com>; 'Neth Daño' <neth at etcgroup.org>; 'cai yiping' <caiyiping2000 at hotmail.com>; 'Julia Puno' <jpuno at aprnet.org>; 'Wardarina -' <rina at apwld.org>; 'Setareki Macanawai' <setareki.macanawai at pacificdisability.org>; 'Nancy Queen' <nancy.queen at pacificdisability.org>; 'Tewai Halatau' <tewai at visionpacific.org.nz>; PDFBoardMembers at groups.io; 'Laisa.Vereti' <Laisa.Vereti at pacificdisability.org>; 'Angeline Chand' <Angeline.Chand at pacificdisability.org>; 'Telesia Kobiti' <Telesia.Kobiti at pacificdisability.org>; 'Murali Padmanabhan' <murali.ability at gmail.com>; 'Nalini Vaz' <nvaz at sightsavers.org>; 'Nalini Vaz' <nalinivaz1 at gmail.com>; 'Deepti Karan weiss' <deeptikaranweiss at gmail.com>; 'Abia Akram' <abia.akram at gmail.com>; 'Danishkadah' <danishkadah at gmail.com>
Subject: [APRCEM) RE: Announcement of the 2022 APRCEM Elections Process

Warm Pacific greetings Co Chair Villaney and members of the Board of the Pacific Disability Forum, 

In acknowledgment of the announcement of the APRCEM election to the focal point for PDF to represent the NGO Pacific region  NGO Constituency I congratulate you in your work in  as Focal Point up to now. I further support the voting process to be submitted to APRCEM election committee f on behalf of PDF following our Annual Board Meeting ABM held recently on 16th August 2022  the nomination of PDF  was reaffirmed by the PDF board and awaiting the outcome of this election process from APRCEM.

Given the time frame to submit the vote in supporting PDF as the approved candidate I  suggest this is done formally ASAP.

Can you confirm how this is done, and if this is done by our Board Executive Assistant Tewai, or through the Secretariate of PDF?

Again, congratulate all candidates and  thank your Co-Chair Villaney for your leadership  and look forward to supporting  PDF  as the Focal point for this new term.

Warmest regards.

Latoa 

Latoa Halatau-Talagi 

Co-Chair  (male) 

Pacific Disability Forum.

From: Murali PADMANABHAN <murali.padmanabhan at wfp.org <mailto:murali.padmanabhan at wfp.org> > 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 6:03 PM
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Subject: RE: Announcement of the 2022 APRCEM Elections Process

Thanks a lot.

Best Regards

Murali PADMANABHAN

Regional Disability Inclusion Advisor-Asia & Pacific

UN World Food Programme Regional Bureau For Asia

Bangkok, Thailand

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From: Villaney Remengesau <lanysmile85 at gmail.com <mailto:lanysmile85 at gmail.com> > 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 12:44 PM
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Subject: Announcement of the 2022 APRCEM Elections Process

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Dear Asia Pacific Disability Constituency Members,

Trus this finds you all well. 

Kindly encouraging you all to participate in the 2022 APRCEM Election Process and vote for your Constituency and Sub-regions Focal Points.

Thank you and looking forward to your support. Good luck everyone. 

Announcement of the 2022 APRCEM Elections Process

August 16, 2022

Dear Asia and the Pacific CSOs and people’s organizations,

Greetings of peace and solidarity to all of you. 

On behalf of the Election Committee (EC), we would like to extend our sincere apologies for the lack of updates and delay in the election process for the constituency and subregional focal points of the Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM). Due to additional processes put in place such as ensuring all nominations were valid and well-represented and verifying APRCEM members, and creating the election formats it took a valuable amount of time for the EC. 

Moving forward, we would like to share with you the next steps in the election process.

1.	Please see below the final list of eligible nominees for each constituency/subregion:

Constituencies:

*	Dalits - Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)
*	Farmers - Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECOEDECON)
*	Indigenous Peoples - Tebtebba
*	LGBTQIA+ - Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN)
*	Migrants - Immigrant Women's Speakout Association (IWSA)

*	NGO

*	Global Call to Action Against Poverty Asia (GCAP Asia)
*	Reality of Aid Network Asia Pacific (ROA-AP)
*	Asia Pacific Women's Watch (APWW)

*	Older People - EMPOWER India
*	People Affected by Conflict and Disaster Areas - Coastal Development Partnership (CDP)
*	People with Disabilities - Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)
*	Social and Community Enterprises - Institute for Social Entrepreneurship Asia (ISEA)
*	Women - Centre for Women's Resources (CWR)
*	Workers and Trade Unions - International Trade Union Confederation - Asia Pacific (ITUC AP)

Subregions:

*	Northeast Asia - Greenpeace East Asia
*	Southeast Asia - Climate Watch Thailand

*	South Asia

*	National Campaign for Sustainable Development Nepal (NACASUD)
*	Karachi Research Chair (KRC)

*	Central Asia - Rural Women's Organization ALGA 

2. The election rules and process is as follows:

An official list of all Constituents have been drawn up based on the online database of organizations who filled in and submitted an organizational profile to the secretariat and self-defined the Sub-regional and Thematic AP-RCEM Constituencies they belong to. Your organizations have to be listed on the AP-RCEM constituencies database. Only those that are listed can vote for the APRCEM election. Please note that one organization can have multiple representatives to the AP-RCEM but is entitled to only one (1) vote for Constituency and only one (1) vote for the Sub-regional Constituency (as identified in the submitted organization profile). 

To check which constituency and sub region your organization is listed under, please click here: <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3KVXTZI&data=05%7C01%7Cmurali.padmanabhan%40wfp.org%7C81ee027384104c10360908da840150b8%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637967438457729640%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MuOOybj6IrIUUekSQXVlElUKhHMlvBJyhsEsM5XQ3eU%3D&reserved=0>  https://bit.ly/3KVXTZI 

To know the functional operations and roles of the focal points please use this link:

https://tinyurl.com/2022aprcemguidelines <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F2022aprcemguidelines&data=05%7C01%7Cmurali.padmanabhan%40wfp.org%7C81ee027384104c10360908da840150b8%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637967438457885885%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2jMB%2FkzRR3NaYjLCSTXmBqoiuPjKC3HsiA6e1GttO8I%3D&reserved=0>  

Once the voting platform is open on the 22nd of August - a form set up for voting will be sent to each of the organizations list in each constituency and in each sub region in which you can cast your vote. An example of the form is given below:

 <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSdjq-Yzq37S0V9aJ7I80K9qfw2XUy5AwWuhLifkZkvbsgf-jg%2Fviewform&data=05%7C01%7Cmurali.padmanabhan%40wfp.org%7C81ee027384104c10360908da840150b8%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637967438457885885%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pe1T9bWjO1GCR%2FGpaMDouyR4Dr7cHHbOMyChd1RKyxQ%3D&reserved=0> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjq-Yzq37S0V9aJ7I80K9qfw2XUy5AwWuhLifkZkvbsgf-jg/viewform

Notice of the election will be sent to all those registered to vote.

2.       The new timeline for the election is as follows:

Date

Process

August 16, 2022

Notice of commencing the election, the process and introduction to the voting platform

August 16 - 21st August 

Current focal points to share voting process with members and encourage all to vote

August 22 - 31st August 

Casting votes - that will close at midnight  Bangkok time on the 3ist of August

5th September 

Announcing the new members 

Should you have any questions/clarifications of the timeline, kindly email the EC:

Simon Olsen <<olsen at iges.or.jp <mailto:olsen at iges.or.jp> >

Neth Daño <neth at etcgroup.org <mailto:neth at etcgroup.org> >

Yiping Cai <caiyiping2000 at hotmail.com <mailto:caiyiping2000 at hotmail.com> >

Karin Fernando <<karin at cepa.lk <mailto:karin at cepa.lk> >

Thank you so much for your cooperation and understanding.

Karin

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