<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much Simi for all the updates............and photos Beautiful.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for late response.....just seeing this now.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Vinaka</div><div>Mere<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Simione Bula <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:infor@pacificdisability.org" target="_blank">infor@pacificdisability.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Bula All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Greetings from the Pacific Disability Forum.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">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)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Please attribute the statement to PDF CEO Mr. Setareki Macanawai.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">If you have any further queries or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Picture Captions:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">Picture 1 (IASC Consultation 201817):</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d"> Group photo of participants with the IASC Steering Committee and the UNDP Regional Representative and Resident Coordinator<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">Picture 2 (IASC Consultant 201818): (L-R)</span></b><span style="color:#1f497d"> – 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)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">NOTE: If you need other more pictures please don’t hesitate to ask.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Actions, Pacific Consultation
Workshop</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">She further reminded participants of the need to learn from each other and build each other’s strengths throughout the discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“It is important to leverage each other’s strengths and contributions in a complementary approach”, said Ms Lubrani.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PDF CEO Mr Setareki Macanawai stressed the importance of this opportunity for persons with disabilities and humanitarian actors in the region.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PDF acknowledges funding support from the Governments of Australia and New Zealand.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The consultation will be from the 23 to 24 January, at the Tanoa International Hotel in Nadi.
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