Archive for January, 2009
Posted on 31 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Education, Education and Training Opportunities, Fellowships & Scholarships, Inclusion, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: blind students, deaf education, EENET, fellowship, inclusive education, Julius Nyerere, Julius Nyerere Master's Scholarship, learning disabilities, living costs, masters, scholarship, scotland, special education, specific learning difficulties, Tanzania, Tanzanian, Tanzanian students, tuition, UK, United Kingdom, university, University of Edinburgh, visual impairments |
The University in Edinburgh, Scotland, is offering a scholarship for Tanzanian students for the 2009-2010 academic year. Students need to be enrolled at the Masters level. The application deadline is April 1, 2009. The Julius Nyerere Master’s Scholarship will cover the full overseas tuition fee, living costs of £10,000, and a return flight from Tanzania [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, South Asian Region, Women | Tags: Afghan refugees, Afghanistan, best practices, capacity building, developing countries, disabilities, disability advocacy and awareness, disabled people organization, DPOs, Gender and Disability, Handicap International, Handicap International Afghanistan, Herat, impairments, INGO, Kabul, Kandahar, landmines, malnutrition, mine risk education, NGO, non-governmental organization, physical rehabilitation and physiotherapy, PWDs, Rehabilitation, socio-economic inclusion, war, women with disabilities, WWD |
TERMS OF REFERENCE To identify best practices on how to include women with disabilities in the design of projects on disability 1. Introduction: In 2005 and 2006 Handicap International has conducted a national survey on disability (NDSA, National Disability Survey in Afghanistan). In this study the number of persons with disability (PwD) in Afghanistan was [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Capacity Building and Leadership, Cross-Disability, Education, Human Rights, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities | Tags: awareness campaign, campaign coordination, communication, disability community, disability cultures, disability rights, dynamic leader, education and outreach, electronic outreach, energetic leader, global disability rights, global perspective, managing volunteers, materials, media format, national awareness campaign, presentations, print outreach, program evaluation, program manager, United States, US government, USICD, volunteer coordination, volutneers, web publishing, writing |
Education and Outreach Program Manager (New!) Job Summary The United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD) is looking for a part-time Education and Outreach Program Manager in Washington DC. USICD’s mission is to catalyze and help focus the energy, expertise and resources of the US disability community and the US government to optimize their impact [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Networking Opportunities, Opportunities | Tags: advocates, allies, developing countries, disabled people, grassroots, grassroots advocates, Human Rights, networking, people with disabilities, Poverty, professionals |
If you’re reading this, then you probably share a passion for promoting human rights and fighting poverty among people with disabilities in developing countries. I know that some We Can Do readers are themselves people with disabilities in developing countries working as grassroots advocates. Other We Can Do readers are professionals, with and without disabilities, [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Education, Opportunities | Tags: alternative, articles, call for articles, Call for Papers, Children, EENET, higher education, inclusive education, informal, life-long learning, newsletter, non-formal, pre-school, vocational, young people |
Enabling Education Network (EENET) is looking for articles for the 2009 issue of its newsletter “Enabling Education”. (First draft and article ideas should be submitted by January 30, 2009.) The theme of the newsletter is life-long learning. If you could write an article about your experiences of inclusive education in relation to informal, non-formal, alternative, [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Funding, Opportunities, Poverty | Tags: DCPI, ecosystems, enterprise, Helen Marquard, IUCN, marginalization, natural resources, partnership, Poverty, project, SEED, SEED Awards 2009, sustainable development, UNDP, UNEP |
Calling entrepreneurs for sustainable development: SEED Awards 2009 is open for submissions (deadline 16 March 2009; funds up to $40,000) Apply now if: – you are finding new ways of simultaneously improving incomes and strengthening livelihoods; tackling poverty and marginalisation; and managing and conserving natural resources and ecosystems; and – you are developing a new [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cross-Disability, East Asia Pacific Region, Policy & Legislation, Reports, South Asian Region | Tags: Afghanistan, Asia and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, Asia-Pacific, australia, Bangaldesh, Bhutan, Biwako, Biwako framework, Biwako Millennium Framework, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, disability rights, Fiji, Hong kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pacific Australia, Pakistan, Philippines, report, Republic of Korea, singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, welfare |
The Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (2003-2012) was meant to promote a rights-based approach toward disability in the Asian-Pacific Region, in place of the older welfare-based approach. The “Biwako Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific (BMF)” was meant to [...]
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Posted on 24 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, East Asia Pacific Region, Opportunities, Women, Policy & Legislation, Democratic Participation, Education and Training Opportunities, Capacity Building and Leadership, Call for Nominations or Applications | Tags: women with disabilities, Women, Philippines, politics, Asian Institute of Management Conference Center, ACCM, Making Governance Gender Responsive, MGGR, CAPWIP, Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics, women in politics, Asia Pacific Women |
[Note to We Can Do readers: This opportunity is not specifically focused on women with disabilities. But readers who wish to encourage more women with disabilities in their country to become involved with politics may wish to consider the following course. I am not familiar with the extent to which the Center for Asia Pacific [...]
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Posted on 24 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Education and Training Opportunities, Human Rights, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Africa, Africa Equality program, African law, African lawyers, disability, disability and Africa, disability issues, disability lawyer, disability rights, English, equality standards, french, Human Rights, human rights law, human rights lectures, human rights organizations, human rights practitioners, Interights, international legal center, internship, judges, lawyer, lawyers, legal protection, legal research, legal skills, legal training, litigation experience, London, London organizations, NGO, non-discrimination, non-Governmental groups, strategic programme development |
INTERIGHTS. London, UK. Closing date: February 09, 2009. Description: Internship for Lawyers Working on Disability in Africa Equality Programme INTERIGHTS’ Equality Programme is pleased to invite applications for an internship as part of the development and implementation of its work to advance the rights of people with disabilities in Africa. The three-month internship will begin [...]
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Posted on 24 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Cognitive Impairments, Families, Health, Mobility Impariments, Psychiatric Disabilities | Tags: contraception, Family planning, family planning professionals, intellectual disabilities, mental disabilities, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, psychosocial disabilities, reproduction, reproductive services, sex, sexuality |
Doctors, social workers, neighbors, and even family members often mistakenly assume that people with disabilities cannot possibly be interested in sex. Or if they are, others believe they cannot physically participate. Or if they can, others think that no one would want to have sex with them. Because of these myths, people with disabilities are [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Audio & Visual Materials, Call for Nominations or Applications, Call for Papers, Disaster Planning & Mitigation, Events and Conferences, Fellowships & Scholarships, Funding, Opportunities, youth | Tags: carbon dioxide, climate change, competition, Employment, essay competition, extreme climate phenomena, global warming, green entrepreneurs, greenhouse gases, Health, industrial processes, photo competition, prizes, security, video competition, World Bank, young adults, young people, youth, youth-led solutions |
The World Bank International Essay Competition 2009: Climate Change [Also video competition and photo competition, with smaller prizes.] [Note to We Can do readers: although this competition is not targeted specifically at disability issues per se, it could be an opportunity for talented young people with disabilities to consider competing. It also could be an [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Awards & Honors, Call for Nominations or Applications, Funding, Opportunities | Tags: college students, Dell, Dell social Innovation competition, human need, innovative ideas, RGK Center, social entrepreneurs, social innovation, social issue, student entrepreneurs, Tomberg Prize, university students |
Dell Social Innovation Competition [Note to We Can Do readers: Although this funding competition is not targeted at disability issues per se, it is my hope that We Can Do readers, including people with disabilities, will read the eligibility criteria carefully and consider creative ideas for projects that would actively benefit the disability community in [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Cross-Disability, Education and Training Opportunities, Employment, Fellowships & Scholarships, Inclusion, Opportunities | Tags: a901286, course A901286, developing countries, ILO, ILO International Training Centre, implementation, Inclusion, International Labouor Organization, International Labour Organisation, Italy, labor market inclusion, labour market inclusion, planning, policy making, professionals, research, social inclusion, training course, transition countries |
“Labour market inclusion of people with disabilities” International Labour Organization Training course for professionals from developing and transition countries Dates: 20 – 29 April 2009 – Language: English – Venue: Turin, Italy Application deadline: 13 March 2009 Turin, 12 January 2009 Dear Sir or Madam, I have the pleasure of announcing that the ILO International [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Employment, Events and Conferences, Networking Opportunities, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: business, development enterprise, Disability Workshop, DISBC, DWDE, enterpreneurship, exchange ideas, exchange knowledge, ideas, knowledge, Samll business conference, small businesses, South Africa, stakeholders, sustainable entrepreneurship development |
The aim of the Disability Workshop Development Enterprise (DWDE) International Small Business Conference is to bring together entrepreneurs with disabilities and other key industry stakeholders to deliberate, share knowledge and exchange ideas on the fundamental building blocks for sustainable entrepreneurship development amongst people with disabilities. We would like to create the platform to give entrepreneurs [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Cross-Disability, Human Rights, Inclusion, Networking Opportunities, Opportunities, South Asian Region, Women | Tags: Abia Akram, BMI, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, development agencies, disability, disabled peoples organization, Discrimination, donors, DPI, gender, governments, men with disabilities, networking, networking opportunity, NGOs, Non-government Disabilities, Pakistan, PDPO, people with disabilities, stigma, UN, women with disabilities |
Pakistan Disabled People’s Organization Subject: Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan Respected All, Greetings from Pakistan Disabled Peoples’ Organization (PDPO/DPI – Pakistan), The issue of disability is gaining more and more importance all over the world as well as in Pakistan due the disability movement for a “rights based society” initiated by organizations of [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Papers, Cross-Disability, Events and Conferences, Opportunities, Rehabilitation, Resources | Tags: 2009 conferences, Center for International Rehabilitation, CIRRIE, conferences, developing countries, disability, disability conferences, exchange, India, information, international conferences, international events, international rehabilitation, neurorehabilitation, people with disabilities, psychosocial rehabilitation, Rehabilitation, reserach, South Africa |
One common reason why many We Can Do readers come to this blog is because they want to learn about upcoming conferences related to disability issues in developing countries. The single most popular page at this blog carries the quite inelegant but pragmatic title of Conferences, Events, Call for Papers, Training Opportunities (which also includes [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Resources, Deaf, Education, Cross-Disability, East Asia Pacific Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, South Asian Region, Middle East and North Africa, Academic Papers and Research, Disability Studies, Poverty, signed languages | Tags: Afghanistan, Southern Africa, disability, developing countries, Rehabilitation, Pakistan, Middle East, people with disabilities, Africa, East Asia, South Asia, information, research, journals, Poverty, M. Miles, CIRRIE, international rehabilitation research, exchange, articles, bibliography, bibliographies, social responses, educational responses, social response, North East AFrica, Deafness in East Asia, antiquity, gesture, South-West Asia, economically weaker countries, lessons not learned, Disability in East Asia, trends, critque |
Researchers who need to locate journal articles and other publications about people with disabilities throughout history in developing countries face significant barriers. People with disabilities outside of North America and Europe tend to be invisible in much of the published literature and throughout history. Researchers can consult a list of annotated bibliographies at the Center [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Middle East and North Africa | Tags: bibiliography, disability, disabled people, Egypt, historical, history, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, knowledge, Lebanon, Middle East, people with disabilities, research, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey |
by M. Miles The partly annotated open online “Disability in the Middle East, a bibliography”, first web published in 2002, was much revised, extended and updated to June 2008, and now lists about 1,750 items, at: http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/bibliography/mideast/index.html (also .pdf) It aims to record the cumulative formal knowledge base in the disability field in countries of [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Inclusion, Middle East and North Africa, Opportunities | Tags: achieving independence, corporate sector, disability, Doha, Education, exhibits, inclusive societies, inclusive society, independence, innovative technologies, International Shafallah Forum, labor, labor practices, leaders, micro-enterprise, opportunity, paper presentations, people with disabilities, Poverty, poverty reduction, programs, Qatar, research, roundtable discussions, Shafallah, Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, special needs, symposia, unfair labor practices, unfair practices, Valerie Karr, workforce |
Note that the deadline to submit abstracts is January 23, 2009, at 5 pm EST. On behalf of the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, I would like to extend a warm invitation for you to submit abstracts for the 4th Annual International Shafallah Forum in Doha, Qatar from April 20th – April 22nd [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Employment, Cross-Disability, Opportunities, Events and Conferences, Latin America & Caribbean, Capacity Building and Leadership, Call for Nominations or Applications, Networking Opportunities | Tags: Argentina, Brasil, Brazil, business, ciego, community development, Costa Rica, Deaf, disability, disability rights, disacapacidades de aprendizaje, discapacidad, discapacidad auditava, discapacidad visual, discapacidades psiquiatricas, Education, empleo, Employment, employment opportunities, Eugene, exchange program, government, Guatemala, health realted disabilities, hearing impairment, I-LEAD, ILEAD, international, Latin America, leadership, learning disabilities, Liderazgo Internacional, Lydia Shula, MIUSA, Mobility International USA, Oregon, profesionales, professional, Programa de Intercambio Profesional, psychiatric, Psychiatric Disabilities, psycho-social disabilityes, psychosocial disabilities, sordo, visual impairment |
YES, late applications are being accepted after the application deadline. Sí, se puede presentar su solicitud despues 16 de enero, 2009. En español In English MIUSA is currently accepting applications from professionals with disabilities from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Guatemala for MIUSA’s International Leadership, Employment, and Disability (I-LEAD) Professional exchange program in Eugene, Oregon [...]
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