<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial,sans-serif">Dear CEO Seta:</font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif"></font><br></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif">Your email is noted with thanks. </font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif"></font><br></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif">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.  </font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif"></font><br></div><div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-BCX1 gmail-SCXW95122098" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;clear:both;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:windowtext;text-indent:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;font-weight:bold"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><font face="arial,sans-serif">2019 IDPD Events</font></span></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-BCX1 gmail-SCXW95122098" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;clear:both;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:windowtext;text-indent:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;font-weight:bold"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"></span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><font face="arial,sans-serif"> </font></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-BCX1 gmail-SCXW95122098" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;clear:both;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:windowtext;text-indent:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;font-weight:normal"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">Nov 15 OMEKESANG Membership Training</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> - complete</span></font></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-BCX1 gmail-SCXW95122098" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;clear:both;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:windowtext;text-indent:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;font-weight:normal"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"></span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><font face="arial,sans-serif"> </font></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-BCX1 gmail-SCXW95122098" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:n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isability Family Day</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW95122098 gmail-BCX1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20.5px"> </span></font></p></div><font face="arial,sans-serif">***special luncheon party to commemorate and close the 2019 IDPD long week events</font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif">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. </font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif">Kind regards,</font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif">Lany</font></div><div>    </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 03:55, Setareki Macanawai <<a href="mailto:CEO@pacificdisability.org" target="_blank">CEO@pacificdisability.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Theme: “Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda“<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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