ADDC Bulletin: April 2021 edition

Download (docx)

ADDC Bulletin: April 2021 edition

ADDC NEWS

• ADDC Executive Officer change

IN THE NEWS

• CBM calls to restore the budget for people with disabilities
• Statement for the Commission on the Status of Women on women and girls with disabilities
• Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) – Recommendations from the 2021 Asia Pacific Disability Constituency Intervention

NEW RESOURCES

• ACFID Guidance for the Development of a Disability Inclusion Policy
• Report: Climate Change: This Century’s Defining Issue
• Evidence summary: CBM Australia and Nossal Institute for Global Health: Experiences of people with disabilities during COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific (Updated March 2021)
• Report: Human Right Report 2021: Impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities
• Toolkit: IDA/IDDC Toolkit for National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign for Persons with Disabilities
• Toolkit: EDF Toolkit on Inclusion of Refugees and Migrants with Disabilities
• Report: Persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in Iraq: Barriers, challenges and priorities
• Guideline Report: WHO Assistive Product Specifications and how to use them
• Report: Global Disability Summit +2 years: Progress on implementation of commitments

Recordings

• Rights, Sports and Disability
• Building Back Safer- Inclusively: Women and Girls with Disabilities Partnering on Solutions to Violence in COVID and Beyond (24 March)
• Access to Justice at the Intersection of Disability and Older Age: A Moderated Discussion (30 March)
• Ramping up representation: promoting the participation of youth with disabilities in pandemic recovery efforts (April 6)
• Share ‘n’ learn session series: 2nd Anniversary Celebration of the Inclusive Education Initiative (IEI)
• 24th session of the UNCRPD Committee

YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED

• Sessions: Australian Engagement on International Climate Change Conference (COP26)
• Survey: Child and Youth Consultation | UN Day of General Discussion on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care
• Survey: Disability research in Australia
• Survey: G3ict Policy Center Survey for Inclusive Workplace of the future
• Survey: Use, access to and perception of impact of OHCHR publications

UPCOMING EVENTS

• The Early Connections Virtual Conference
• 2021 Virtual Aid Budget Breakfast
• Online regional consultations with persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in Asia Pacific
• Reimagining the Future of Development webinar
• World Blindness Summit
• Pathways through disruption: RDI Conference 2021
• Voluntary National Reviews for the High Level Political Forum
• Day of the General Discussion on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care
• Deafblind Africa Conference

OPPORTUNITIES

• Disability Inclusion – Policy Advocacy and Community Engagement: EOI
• COSP14: NGO accreditation for next year now open

ABOUT US