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Country Responses

Explore disability-inclusive responses in Asia and the Pacific

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Resources

Explore disability-related resources

Initiatives on the Ground

This section features local initiatives on the ground seed-funded by the ESCAP project on COVID-19 and disability inclusion.

Bangladesh, CDD 3. Community awareness-raising meeting

Bangladesh: Centre for Disability in Development

China, ZDPF 9. Self-help group of persons with disabilities, their family members and community leaders having a meeting

China: Zhumadian Disabled Persons’ Federation

India, Samarthyam 13. OPD woman leader handing over a letter to the Additional District Collector to form the district-level monitoring committee

India: Samarthyam

Malaysia, NCBM 7. Picture of Sun Wan Ting

Malaysia: National Council for the Blind, Malaysia

Thailand, APCD 6. Ms. La-Ong Maneeterm, resource person, discussing the current situation in Nangrong District, Buri Rum Province

Thailand: Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability

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ESCAP Resources

  • Sixth Session of the Working Group on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022
  • ESCAP webinar: Protecting and Empowering Persons with Disabilities in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • ESCAP policy brief: Ensuring Disability Rights and Inclusion in the Response to COVID-19

 

About Us

The web page is part of the ESCAP project “Protecting and empowering persons with disabilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic” funded by Rehabilitation International.

The project aims to enhance the capacity of governments and civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, to mainstream disability rights and inclusion into both short- and long-term COVID-19 responses, so as to protect and empower persons with disabilities in the context of the pandemic.

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