Presented on behalf of Arsénio Paixão BanoState
Secretary for Labour and Solidarity
Presented by Mr Laulentino Guterres,
KATILOSA, Timor Leste
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Process of elaborating the Policy
- Participatory
- Consultative
- Overview of the Policy
- Vision and Goal
- Objectives
- Strategic actions
- Way Ahead
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Policy Process
Role of State Secretariat for Labour and Solidarity
- Responsible for welfare and employment promotion of persons
with disability: Section 8, Labour Code 2002
- Recognition that advancement of persons with disabilities
is a critical issue for national development from the social
perspective
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Legal Basis of the Policy
Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
- Section 16 (Universality and Equality) guarantees the rights
of all citizens, and for non-discrimination on grounds of…
physical or mental condition.
- Section 21 (Disabled Citizens) provides that disabled citizens
shall enjoy the same rights and be subject to same duties
as all other citizens; and the State shall promote the protection
of disabled citizens.
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Normative Basis of the Policy
International Instruments - human rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights; and General Comment No. 5 (1994) - Persons with disabilities
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women; and General Recommendation No. 18 (1991) -
Disabled women
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Normative Basis of the Policy
International and Regional Instruments
- World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (adopted
by General Assembly resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982)
- Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for
Persons with Disabilities (adopted by General Assembly resolution
48/96, annex of 20 December 1993)
- Biwako Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive,
Barrier-Free and Rights-Based Society for Persons with Disabilities
in Asia and the Pacific
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Participatory Process
Regional consultative seminars organised in all four regions
- Baucau / Maliana / Ainaro / Dili - from 7 April to 3 May
- Nearly 500 participants from all 13 districts
- Governmental officials, representatives of civil society,
and persons with disabilities, who accounted for 40+ per cent
of all participants
- Main issues identified: opportunities to improve quality
of life; to realise sustainable livelihoods; and to participate
in and contribute to civil and political life
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Consultative Aspects
Role of Disability Working Group
- Forum for informal consultations between Government and
non-governmental organizations
- Strong advocate for national policy on disability, following
resumption of independence in 2002
- Effective contributions of views, detailed knowledge and
substance to policy formulation process
- Facilitated ad hoc consultations with other senior governmental
officials: education / health / public works / planning and
finance
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Policy Overview
Purpose
- Framework to promote accessibility with reasonable adaptation
in general systems of society for all - social, economic and
cultural, and civil and political
- Framework to achieve incorporation of disability as key
theme in all strategies, policies and plans on inclusive development
and poverty reduction - which are the paramount goals of Government
- Framework to support awareness-raising, public information
and consultations on advancement of persons with disability
and development
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Policy Overview
Values and principles on which the Policy is based
- Equality between women and men, and non-discrimination
- Inclusion in all aspects of development as a right and a
responsibility
- Empowerment of persons with disability as agent and beneficiary
of all aspects of development
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Policy Overview
Definition of disability for purposes of the national policy
- Persons who experience long-term difficulties due to physical,
sensory and/or mental condition, which substantially limits
capacities to perform one or more essential daily life activities.
Prevalence in the population
- Provisional data from Census 2004 indicate nearly 15 per
cent of 194,943 households enumerated reported a household
member with physical disability (11.4%) or mental condition
(2.3%); majority are in rural areas.
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Policy Framework
Vision
- To promote an environment in which there are no barriers
to full and effective participation and equality between women
and men in all aspects of development, which contributes to
continuous, sustainable and equitable improvements in levels
of living and quality of life in larger freedom for all.
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Policy Framework
Goal
- To promote recognition, progressive realisation and effective
protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined
in the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
for citizens with disability and further thereby their full
and effective participation, on the basis of equality between
women and men, in building a prosperous and just nation and
a society for all.
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Policy Framework
Objectives
- Achieve accessibility with reasonable adaptation in the
general systems of society
- Achieve universal access to accessible social services and
social safety nets
- Promote equalization of opportunities for individual enterprise,
on the basis of equality between women and men, to create
income and wealth in open markets
- Promote equalization of opportunities to participate in
and contribute to civil and political life
- Promote information and communications in modes and formats
accessible for all
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Strategic Actions
Strategic actions to achieve accessibility in the general
systems of society include
- Raise public awareness of accessibility as a basic right
- Disseminate official documents in accessible formats and
support expanded use of augmentative and alternative communications
modes to ensure choice for all
- Achieve progressively accessible public facilities and services,
public accommodations, and transport services
- Promote accessible religious, cultural and historical sites
- Achieve progressively development and rehabilitation of
shelter and habitat that provide accessibility for all
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Strategic Actions
Strategic actions to achieve a “civil minimum”
in accessible social services and safety nets to improve quality
of life for all include
- Raise public awareness of preventable causes of disability
and ways to achieve healthier lifestyles
- Support for community-directed approaches to early detection
and intervention in all regions
- Support to expand rehabilitation services, and to assistive
devices and services to all regions
- Support for inclusive education and training
- Promote choice in sports and cultural activities 16
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Strategic Actions
Strategic actions to promote equalization of opportunities
for individual enterprise to create income and wealth include
- Raise public awareness of the right to work for all
- Promote inclusive skill development, vocational training
and extension services to equalize opportunities to participate
in the knowledge-based economy, and to increase productivity
in the rural sector - for improved food security, and incomes
- Employment promotion shall be disability-inclusive and gender-sensitive,
with emphasis on the rural areas
- Employment promotion to produce assistive devices
- Disability-inclusive approaches to promote opportunities
for youth with disability in sustainable livelihoods in all
regions
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Strategic Actions
Strategic actions to achieve progressively a democratic
system that presents no barriers to participate in and contribute
to civil and political life include
- Raise public awareness of right of all to participate in
political life and the conduct of public affairs
- Build human capacities for governance and public sector
management
- Foster leadership development in all sectors and at all
levels on the basis of equality between women and men
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Strategic Actions
Strategic actions to promote information and communications
in accessible formats include
- Raise public awareness of right of all to exercise freedom
of expression without barriers
- Support expanded efforts to build national capacities and
institutions for accessible information, and augmentative
and alternative communication modes
- Recognise officially accessible formats and augmentative
and alternative communication modes for public affairs as
well as in private sector activities
- Promote applied research on disability, and development
of statistics on disability and development
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Way Ahead
Actions submitted for consideration of Council of Ministers
- Actions focus on support - technical, financial and political
- for a process to achieve progressively accessibility with
reasonable adaptation in the general systems of society
- Actions do not require new resources but improved resource
allocation decision-making from the disability perspective
- Actions do not envisage new nation building programmes but
strengthened capacities and institutions for inclusive designs
and progressive removal of barriers in facilities and services
- Actions are premised on greater participation, transparency
and accountability by all parties concerned
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Sets of recommended actions
- Incorporate disability-inclusive concepts and principles
in planning, resource allocations and monitoring of Annual
Action Plans and Sector Investment Programmes, as well as
other multilateral and bilateral assistance programmes
- Build capacities to develop, implement and monitor a disability-inclusive
legal framework, including general legislation and regulations
on non-discrimination and equalization of opportunities, and
special legislation to address priority issues, such as protection
of children and women with disability, and persons with mental,
intellectual or psychological disability
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Way Ahead
Sets of recommended actions (2)
- Establish and develop a national council, committee or similar
mechanism for consultation and coordination of actions related
to advancement of persons with disability
- Build capacities and empower for participatory monitoring
and evaluation of disability-inclusive development and poverty
reduction
- Ensure transparency and accountability in action to further
the process of disability-inclusive development and poverty
reduction in Timor-Leste
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Way Ahead
International and regional cooperation, could include
- Advice and assistance to build national capacities and institutions
for progressive realization of accessibility; non-discrimination
and equalization of opportunities
- Support for pilot action, particularly by the non-governmental
community, to promote opportunities for enterprise by persons
with disability - women and men - in all regions
- Opportunities to participate in technical exchanges, seminars
and training workshops on priority disability and development
topics, which are accessible for all
ANNEX IV
PRESENTATION ON THE PROPOSED STEPS
FOR BIWAKO+5:
FORWARD-LOOKING STRATEGIES FOR THE 2ND HALF OF THE DECADE
10th session of the TWG-DC
UN ESCAP secretariat
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Structure of the presentation
- UNESCAP efforts for the BMF implementation 2004
- Development in disability field for the last three years
- Proposed Steps for Biwako+5
- Timeframe
- Working group formation
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UNESCAP efforts for the Implementation of the BMF-2004
- Questionnaire to see the extent of national commitment and
policy formulation on the BMF goals.
- Regional Workshop on Monitoring the Implementation of the
BMF -October
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Regional Workshop on Monitoring the Implementation
of the BMF October 2004
- Developed a set of indicators on the BMF goals
Lessons learnt:
- Can develop yes/no response to the existence and availability
of policies/mechanism
- Limitations and challenges to establish quantitative indicators
for the BMF
- Lack of data
- Compare with the MDG indicators
- A manual/guideline for indicator development will be published
in 2006
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Resolution 61/8
“Midpoint review of the implementation of the BMF”
(adopted on 18 May 2005)
- Encourages governments recommitment of the BMF implementation
towards the mid-point review.
- In 2007, the high-level intergovernmental meeting of three
working days will be held.
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Developments in disability field at large for the
last 3 years
- Elaboration of the international convention
- Comprehensive CBR approach promoted (Joint Position Paper
2004 by ILO/UNESCO/WHO)
- Twin track approach in development
- Inclusive education promoted
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Proposed Steps for Biwako+5: Forward-looking strategies
for the 2nd half of the Decade-2008-2012
Need for:
- Assessment of the BMF implementation at the mid-point in
2007.
- Review and reengineering of the BMF strategies for the 2nd
half
Key thinking in the strategy setting:
- Well-focused
- Feasible/action-oriented
- Result-based
- Responsive to the current
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Biwako+5:Forward-looking strategies for the 2nd half
of the Decade
- Reference
- Beijing +5
- Proposed supplementary rules Possible component
- Strategy for action
- Regional and inter-regional collaboration
- Empowerment/ capacity building
- Rights-based
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Time Frame
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Time frame
TWG-DC 10th session June 2005 -Formation of the Working Group.
- Regional workshop on the national plan on action October
2005-1st review of the Biwako+5.
- TWG-DC 11th (APDF GA?) and 12th Sessions in 2006 –
2nd and 3rd review.
- TWG-DC 13th Session in 2007–4th review.
- EGM October 2007 –Finalize the draft.
- High Level Inter-governmental Meeting- October 2007 -Submission
and Adoption.
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- Working Groups for Biwako +5
- SHO, gender mainstreaming, special groups
- Education, employment
- Poverty alleviation, sustainable livelihood, community-based
rehabilitation, inter-regional collaboration
- International convention, disability statistics and indicators,
national plan of action, accessibility
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Let’s work together!
Thank You ~
