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NCBM organized a Policy Platform Workshop
April 25, 2019
The National Council of the Blind Malaysia (NCBM), organized a policy platform workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 25, 2019. Participants identified three priority areas: the participation of persons with disabilities in the decision-making process, accessibility in public spaces, and education. Several AGENDA partners will be heading policy platforms for their national…
Policy Platform Workshop in Indonesia
March 14, 2019
Perkumpulan Penyandang Disabilitas Indonesia (PPDI), AGENDA partner in Indonesia, organized a Policy Platform Workshop with Indonesia’s DPOs in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 14. The workshop aims to gather DPOs of various type of disability with a nationwide/large working are in Indonesia identifying top priorities that are most in need of political parties and government…
PPDI Policy Platform Training
March 14, 2019
Rebecca Aberg, IFES Senior Inclusion Officer, trained PPDI facilitators on how to run an interactive policy platform workshop. The training was attended by by a DPO representative from Malaysia, NCBM, an IFES consultant from the Philippines and AGENDA staff at IFES Indonesia office on March 13. AGENDA's partner in Indonesia, PPDI, is going…
AGENDA Monitoring & Evaluation Training
January 31, 2019
On January 30, General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA) conducted a training on monitoring and evaluation in Yangon, Myanmar, with 17 representatives from nine DPOs – the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO), the Hanoi Independent Living Center (Hanoi ILC), the Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), the
The 4th Regional Disability Rights Dialogue
January 30, 2019
On January 28-29, the IFES Myanmar and IFES AGENDA teams organized and hosted the fourth Regional Disability Rights Dialogue in Myanmar. Following its theme of "Transforming Obligation into Action”, the dialogue focused on the first section of the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025: Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which contains key action points on…
MoU between ADF and IFES/AGENDA
January 30, 2019
On January 29, 2019, IFES and the ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue coordinating efforts to increase access to political rights for persons with disabilities in Southeast Asia. IFES, which founded the General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA) in 2011, is partnering with disabled people’s organizations…
Here’s how to build inclusive technology, today
December 19, 2018
“Value in Disability” is a concept introduced by Ken Chua, Founder and Director of (these)abilities in the article which lays out the current disparity between technology & inclusion. The interesting article was wrote for the World Economic Forum to promote a pro-disability perception among policy makers, business leaders, technology creators and the general public.…
ASEAN DPOs attended 7th Meeting of Task Force
July 23, 2018
On 6 July, all participants of the DPO Coordination Meeting hosted by AGENDA on July 5, received the opportunity to attend the seventh Meeting of the Task Force on Mainstreaming of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) Community. During the meeting, the ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF…
Election Studies Program in 2018
July 23, 2018
On 27 June, AGENDA and IFES coordinated with Bawaslu (Indonesia Election Supervisory Body) to hold polling station visits to the 2018 Pilkada (local election) in five cities for international delegates and representatives as part of Bawaslu’s first-ever Election Studies Program. The program aimed to bring together members of election management bodies (EMBs) from…
