| Time |
Topic |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Walk-in |
| 9.30-9.40 |
Opening – Setting the scene – disability in development perspective – strategies for leaving no one behind |
| 9.40-9.55 |
Keynote address: 1: Disability mainstreaming in development programs
Katherine Belen is a Senior Advisor for Gender, Inclusion and Community-Led Development at UN Women. She will be addressing the importance of mainstreaming disability in development programs and how to do this, from a human rights and gender mainstreaming perspective.
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| 9.55-10.10 |
Keynote address 2: How does the Department of Social Development (DSD) promote inclusion of Persons with Disabilities?
Peter Derrek Hof will share the vision of the Department of Social Development (DSD) on the inclusion of persons with disability and provides examples on how DSD approaches this. |
| 10.10-10.20 |
Keynote address 3: Making disability programs and general development programs more inclusive
Sharon Handongwe is CBR coordinator at Cheshire Homes Society of Zambia. The key-message of her talk: Inclusion is not a tick box but a product of intentional, planned and systematic implementation of activities that work to engage with purpose
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| 10.20-11.00 |
Plenary Panel – reflection on keynote speeches
Reflection on the keynotes by each panel member and their view on what must be done to meaningfully improve the quality of life of children and youth with disabilities (CYWD).
Panel: Aisha Ibrahim, Danielle Hirsch, Thomas Mtonga en Fenna Timsi |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break and interactive polling |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Break out session 1: Inclusion challenges and effective approaches.
- Session A – SRHR & intersectionality
Aisha Ibrahim from Fourah Bay College – University of Sierra Leone – will present the results of a multi-country research into access challenges of YWD to SRHR. Specialists working in the field of SRHR will respond from their own experience and perspectives to further stimulate exchange and discussion on the benefits of using an intersectionality lens to address SRHR for CYWD.
- Session B – Hybrid program: Community Based Rehabilitation- reaching out the grassroots level
Willem Elbers from Radboud University, based in the Netherlands, will present the results of a multi-country research into succcessful CBR models to reach CYWD at community level. Specialists working in the field of CBR in countries that participated in the research will respond from their own experience and context to further stimulate exchange and discussion on best practices in reaching all CYWD, regardless of their disability and living conditions.
- Session C – Hybrid program: Inclusive Education
Thomas Mtonga, from The University Of Zambia in Lusaka, will present the results of a multi-country research into inclusive education to further enhance the inclusion of CYWD in education. Specialists working in the field of inclusive education will respond to these findings from their own experience and perspective to further stimulate exchange and discussion on best practices including CYWD in education.
|
| 12.30-13.45 |
Lunchbreak |
| 13.45-14.45 |
Break out session 2: Putting ideas into practice
- Session A – Involving youth with disabilities in SRHR
NSofwa Petronella Sampa, Member of the regional youth with disabilities council for the MoFa funded Make Way program, shares her expierences briefly as a young women with a disability in accessing SRHR. Daphne Visser, SRHR and Advocacy Advisor will stress the importance of involving YWD in designing and implementing SRHR programs. Specialists working in the field of SRHR will respond to these presentations from their own experience to further stimulate exchange and discussion on best practices in including YWD in development programmes.
- Session B – Hybrid program: Nurturing inclusion: Home and family practices
Aisha Ibrahim from Fourah Bay College – University of Sierra Leone – and Valentine Ngalim from the university of Bamenda, Yaounde, will present the results of research on parent- and family engagement to improve the health and well-being of CYWD. Specialists from disability inclusion organisations will discuss how they used these findings for evidence-based approaches to further advance the effective engagement of parents of CYWD.
- Session C – Hybrid program: Financial inclusion and employment barriers
Sharon Handongwe from Cheshire Homes Society of Zambia will present the results of academic research and Thomas Mtonga from The University Of Zambia in Lusaka will present the results of research conducted on financial inclusion of YWD. Specialists from disability inclusion organisations in the research areas will discuss how they used these findings for evidence based approaches to further advance financial inclusion of YWD.
|
| 14.45-15.15 |
Coffee break |
| 15.15–16.00 |
Interactive Lightning Talks:
- What lessons can we learn from gender mainstreaming?
Tine Davids from Radboud University, Nijmegen, is an Assistant professor on Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies and an expert on gender, motherhood, politics, globalization, gender mainstreaming, feminist ethnography, and (return) migration. She will highlight how lessons learned from gender mainstreaming may be used to further strengthen disability mainstreaming in general development programs.
- What lessons can we learn from stigma reduction in TB / Leprosy?
Mustapha Gidado, Director of KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, the Hague, is an expert in TB and Leprosy control. He will highlight how lessons learned from stigma reduction related to communicable diseases may be used to further strengthen the inclusion of CYWD in their communities.
- Making disability programs truly inclusive
Lieke Scheewe is a Partnerships & Advocacy Advisor for disability inclusion and coordinator of The Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (DCDD). She will focus on the need of adequate disability inclusive policy and action.
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| 16.00-16.30 |
Wrapping up & reflections |
| 16.30-17.30 |
Drinks & networking reception |
