[PDFlist] International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2019

[Villaney Remengesau]

Dear CEO Seta:

Your email is noted with thanks.

In Palau, the discussions have started late October 2019 with planning
kicking off on Nov 5 and meetings every week. As we are using the already
existing mechanisms, the Palau CBID Consortium and Palau Healthcare
Coalition are sharing resources and working closely together to plan and
lead programs and activities to commemorate this day. The following are the
2019 IDPD events for all of us in Palau. Funding for this week events are
all local resources.

2019 IDPD Events



Nov 15 OMEKESANG Membership Training - complete



Nov 23 Car Wash Fundraising



Dec 2 Disability Partners Radio Talkshow by 2019 IDPD Planning Committee to
layout IDPD week activities

           Local newspapers publications on success stories of people with
intellectual disabilities


Dec 3 OMEKESANG General Membership Meeting and IDPD Parade event

           Public Library Read Aloud Program on Raising Awareness on
Disability


Dec 4 Disability Stakeholders Training

***mapping of CRPD implementation using the Palau CBID and Disability
Situational Analysis Report and Palau VNR Report 2019


Dec 5 TV show @ TMC by PNOC, MOH, and PPE, and OMEKESANG

***raising awareness on disability and Youth for Inclusion, Special
Olympics Program, Palau



Dec 6 OMEKESANG Hour, Radio Talkshow


Dec 7 Disability Family Day
***special luncheon party to commemorate and close the 2019 IDPD long week
events

PDF members, please share with us and the PDF Secretariat of your
activities to celebrate the Dec. 3 2019, International Day of Persons with
Disabilities.

Kind regards,

Lany


On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 03:55, Setareki Macanawai <CEO at pacificdisability.org>
wrote:

> International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD
>
> Tuesday, 03 December 2019
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> Theme: “Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their
> leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda“
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> Drawing on the information provided by the UN Department of Economic and
> Social Affairs (UN DESA) UN Enable website, the International Day of
> Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) has been annually observed since 1992
> around the world on 3 December each year. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is
> ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their
> leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’.
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> The theme focuses on the empowerment of persons with disabilities for
> inclusive, equitable and sustainable development as envisaged in the 2030
> Agenda for Sustainable Development, which pledges to ‘leave no one behind’
> and recognizes disability as a cross-cutting issues, to be considered in
> the implementation of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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> Observance of the IDPD at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA will
> consist of an official opening, a panel discussion on new initiatives for
> disability inclusion, and a spotlight event on the theme of ‘Sport for all
> for peace and development’, which will be the opportunity to discuss sport
> as a powerful enabler of peace and sustainable development through the
> empowerment of persons with disabilities.
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> PDF office in Suva is holding a half-day seminar in partnership with UNDP
> Pacific and Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat to mark IDPD 2019. Please
> share with us how your organisation is planning to celebrate this day.
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> Seta
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> Setareki S. Macanawai
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> Chief Executive Officer
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> Pacific Disability Forum
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> Ground Floor, Kadavu House, Victoria Parade  |  GPO Box 18458  |  Suva,
> Fiji
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> Mobile: (+679) 9921486 (Vodaphone)  |  (+679) 7082891(Digicel)
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> Fax: (+679) 3310469
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> Skype: setareki.macanawai
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> Email: ceo at pacificdisability.org
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> Website: www.pacificdisability.org
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