-----Original Message----- From: Mahesh Chandrasekar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UNCRPD training Dear Friends, Greetings, I received a mail from Michael Guy, Disability Information Manager, Handicap International informing about a "teaching kit" on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Please click on the following link for more details... http://www.handicap-international.fr/kit-pedagogique/indexen.html With warm regards Best wishes Mahesh
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 26, 2007 6:21 PM Subject: UNCRPD training To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All A colleague at Handicap International recently forwaded me the email discussion below from GPDD re: training resources on the UNCRPD Handicap International has recently produced a "teaching kit" specifically for this - which you may find useful. You can find and download the "teaching kit" at the following addresses: French version : http://www.handicap-international.fr/kit-pedagogique/indexfr.html English version: http://www.handicap-international.fr/kit-pedagogique/indexen.html Best wishes Michael Guy Disability Information Manager Handicap International UK Waterman House, 101-107 Chertsey Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5BW Tel: +44 (0) 870 774 3737 / Fax: +44 (0) 870 774 3738 michael.guy @hi-uk.org www.handicap-international.org.uk www.asksource.info Handicap International, co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, is an international development organisation focusing on issues around disability and inclusion. We work alongside disabled people to provide long-term support and emergency relief. Our activities include rehabilitation, support for inclusion in all aspects of daily life, and the elimination of preventable causes of disability, such as landmines and cluster munitions. Our vision is of a world where all disabled people can fully access and exercise their human rights. UK Registered Charity no. 1082565 _______________________________________________________________________ From: Mojalefa Ntlatlapa [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: 14 November 2007 14:54 To: Global Partnership for Disability and Development Cc: ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DPI toolkits! Hi, I read with interest your discussion about the tool kits and I am interested in getting some copies for our DPOs in the Mountain Kingdom. I s it possible for you to introduce us to such instruments? I have also attached an article that is intended to alert the world of Independent Living that a new organisation that cherishes the social model of disability has been born in the Kingdom of Lesotho. We have however not been able to kick off due to financial constraints. Hence would be happy if you could help us to link up with as many Independent Living Movements as possible from around the globe, especially those that could assist us in activating our dream. The organisation is composed of professionals with good ideas and fertile training in disability issues. Our only impediment is a financial back-up as we live in one of the least developed countries with very little financial muscle. Best regards, Mojalefa Ntlatlapa mahesh chandrasekar < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Dear Steven, Greetings, Yes, the DPI tool kit has been very useful and has come at the right time for us to refer and develop training sessions. Especially for lay persons like me... Without this and the UNCRPD in Plain English - things would have been much more difficult to understand and interpret in simple language. In the Monitoring tool kit you have described few group exercise that would help us to use the UNCRPD...For example - How Education/ Transport is not only related to Article on Education/ Transport but is interlinked with other articles. What I would need is similar simple exercises that we can use to involve the participants to make use of the UNCRD - may be some case study based on real life experiences and asking participants to use the UNCRPD to assist in realising the rights of persons with disabilities. For example: In India the Voter's ID Card is issued for persons above the age of 18. This ID card is not only used by citizens during elections but also as an identity card for availing Government schemes/ programmes or accessing loans from Banks or to open a new Bank account. However, persons with learning disabilities above age 18 are not issued this card - do you think this is in violation of Article 18 Freedom or Movement and Nationality and Article 29 Participation in Political and Public Life? These are some questions that come up during my session on UNCRPD....in this context...if there is any more/ new plans of developing similar thoughts further, I would be happy to part of the efforts in coming up with the may be another tool kit on 'Creating Awareness/ Enhancing Capacities in using UNCRPD'. So much for now... With warm regards Best wishes Mahesh --- C. Mahesh Advocacy Coordinator CBR Forum 14 CK Garden, Wheeler Road Extension Bangalore, INDIA www.cbrforum.in <http://www.cbrforum.in/> On 11/12/07, Steven Estey < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Dear Mahesh Chandrasekar, Greetings from the DPI headquarters office in Canada! I have read with interest your exchange with Simon Walker at the OHCHR. I was especially interested to learn that you are using the DPI tool kits for some workshops you are doing in rural India. We developed those tools hoping that this type of use would happen, we its a real pleasure for us to learn they are getting used! If you have the time I'd be very keen for any feedback / suggestions you might have based on your experience this week. Feed back from the field is very useful as we are always trying to improve and refine our resources. Good luck in your training Steve -- Steven Estey Human Rights Officer Disabled Peoples' International --- You are currently subscribed to gpdd as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Director - ILC Lesotho -- C. Mahesh Advocacy Coordinator CBR Forum 14, CK Garden Wheeler Road Extension Bangalore - 560 084 Tel - 080- 2549 7387 or 2549 7388 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cbrforum.in <http://www.cbrforum.in/> -- C. 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