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GPDD Membership Meeting 2008
Frankfurt, Germany


Inclusive Poverty Reduction Strategies Workshop Maputo, Mozambique


GPDD Membership Meeting 2009
Turin, Italy

News Highlights

 

International Seminar on the Implementation of the World Report on Disability

23 – 25 February 2012, São Paulo, Brazil

This International Seminar will be held in São Paulo, Brazil from the 23 to the 25 of February in occasion of the launch of the Portuguese version of the World Report on Disability. The event has been organized by the São Paulo State Secretariat for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in cooperation with the Global Partnership on Disability and Development, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, the Latin-American Network of Non-Governmental Organization of Persons with Disabilities and their Families, the Brazilian Association of Physical Medicine, and the Lucy Montoro Rehabilitation Network.

 

International Seminar on the Implementation of the World Report on Disability

22 – 24 January 2012, Doha, Qatar

By invitation of the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, GPDD will take part at the Fifth International Forum on "Crisis, Conflict and Disability”, which will be held in Doha from the 22 to the 24 of January. The Forum will focus on all aspects of inclusive humanitarian crises and disaster management, from preparedness to response, recovery and rebuilding.

 

International Day of Persons with Disabilities:  Interactive Panel Discussion I: Towards inclusive development: improving data and statistics on disability

3 December 2011, UN Headquarters, New York

 

This panel discussion focused on concrete measures for improving the availability and quality of data on disability. Panelists explored the technicalities of measuring disability and provided an in-depth review of existing internationally agreed standards for measuring disability, identifying the advantages and limitations of various methods of data collection. GPDD took part in this discussion. GPDD intervention focused on the role that multi-stakeholders partnerships can play in improving data collection on disability and on the next steps to follow to render statistics more inclusive, especially in view of the next High Level Meeting on disability which will take place at the 68th session of the General Assembly.

 

III Forum on Disability and Development and GPDD Membership Meeting

21-23 September 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Third Membership Meeting took place in Buenos Aires from the 21st to the 23rd of September 2011. The event was organized by the GPDD in partnership with the National Advisory Commission for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities of Argentina (Co.Na.Dis) and the World Bank.

 

 
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