[PDFlist] PR_IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Actions, Pacific Consultation Workshop

[Mere Roden]

Thank you so much Simi for all the updates............and photos Beautiful.


Sorry  for late response.....just seeing this now.


Vinaka
Mere




On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Simione Bula <infor at pacificdisability.org>
wrote:

> Bula All,
>
> Greetings from the Pacific Disability Forum.
>
> Please find attached and pasted below the PR on the IASC Guidelines on
> Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Actions – Pacific
> Consultation Workshop, for your information and publication. Also attached
> are two pictures from the opening of the event this morning. (Find caption
> below)
>
> Please attribute the statement to PDF CEO Mr. Setareki Macanawai.
>
> If you have any further queries or questions, please do not hesitate to
> contact me.
>
> *Picture Captions: *
>
> *Picture 1 (IASC Consultation 201817):* Group photo of participants with
> the IASC Steering Committee and the UNDP Regional Representative and
> Resident Coordinator
>
>
>
> *Picture 2 (IASC Consultant 201818): (L-R)* – Gopal Mitra (IASC Committee
> Co-Chair (UNICEF), Velarie Scherrer (IASC Consultant), Ricardo PLA Cordero
> (IASC Committee Co-Chair (Humanity Inclusion), Georgia Dominik (IASC
> Committee Co-Chair (International Disability Alliance), Osnat Lubrani (UN
> Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative), Setareki Macanawai
> (CEO, Pacific Disability Forum)
>
> NOTE: If you need other more pictures please don’t hesitate to ask.
>
> *IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian
> Actions, Pacific Consultation Workshop*
>
> The Pacific Disability Forum (PDF) in partnership with the United Nations
> Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team on the Inclusion of
> Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action currently conducting a
> regional Consultation Workshop for humanitarian actors in the Pacific. The
> workshop which is the first regional consultation undertaken by the IASC
> Task Team and first such regional meeting in the Pacific will be an
> opportunity for disabled people’s organisations (DPO), Governments, UN
> Agencies, CROP Agencies, and other humanitarian actors in the region to
> contribute to the development of a global guideline on the inclusion of
> persons with disabilities in Humanitarian Actions.
>
>
>
> UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Ms Osnat Lubrani
> highlighted that this meeting is critical for us to ensure that the Pacific
> voice is heard. She highlighted the need to ensure that responses to be
> local as possible and international as necessary.
>
>
>
> She further reminded participants of the need to learn from each other and
> build each other’s strengths throughout the discussion.
>
>
>
> “It is important to leverage each other’s strengths and contributions in a
> complementary approach”, said Ms Lubrani.
>
>
>
> PDF CEO Mr Setareki Macanawai stressed the importance of this opportunity
> for persons with disabilities and humanitarian actors in the region.
>
>
>
> “The next two days is an opportunity for us to tell our  stories from the
> Pacific through this global process, and for us to talk to each other on
> how we can improve our policies and our process, funding and humanitarian
> work better and truly, genuinely inclusive of persons with disabilities”,
> said Mr. Macanawai.
>
>
>
> The workshop will also be an opportunity for Pacific humanitarian actors
> to provide guidelines and tools that will ensure that humanitarian actions
> are inclusive of persons with disabilities.
>
>
>
> IASC Workgroup on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Co-Chair Mr
> Gopal Mitra said the guideline will be a set of tools that will ensure
> humanitarian actors to plan, design, implement and evaluate humanitarian
> actions which ensure full participation of persons with disabilities.
>
>
>
> “This will also be a set of guidelines that will change practice in
> humanitarian sectors and make it more inclusive of persons with
> disabilities”, said Mr Mitra.
>
>
>
> PDF acknowledges funding support from the Governments of Australia and New
> Zealand.
>
>
>
> The consultation will be from the 23 to 24 January, at the Tanoa
> International Hotel in Nadi.
>
> *For more information please email Simione Bula at *
> *infor at pacificdisability.org* <infor at pacificdisability.org>* or call +679
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