December 9, 2008: Presentation of Project Plan
Training Report - Leadership Development Course 2008
The presentation of Project Plan was held at JICA Tokyo today. The nine participants explained what they are planning to do upon their return to home country, what they learned from the training course in Japan, and which learning they applied in their project plan.
The presentations were made in the following order.
Please click the project title to read the whole text.
1. Participant from Turkey
Title: Underground Women
In Turkey, women with disability are kept inside the house by their families and do not participate in social sphere. They are even not aware of their own rights and do not discuss about the difficulties they face in their life. In order to improve this situation, this project aims to provide an opportunity to introduce human rights of persons with disabilities in order to help them discuss their problems and to encourage them participate in social activities. For this purpose, 10 human rights and advocacy workshops will be organized in 10 different cities of Turkey. The target group is women with different disabilities of age between 18 and 35 years old. At the end of this project, 250 women with disabilities from 10 different cities are expected to have a contact with each other, to have better understanding of their rights, and to exercise their rights. The period of project is 2 years and the total budget is estimated at US$22,500.
2. Participant from Malawi
Title: Disability For Ability Project (DIFAP)
In Malawi, persons with disabilities are despised as second class citizens and have been victims of different kinds of abuses. However these abuses have not been reported because the victims do not know about their rights or even if they have the knowledge they are not confident enough to go and report due to negative public attitudes. This project, in effort of tackling this problem, aims to alleviate abuse and discrimination of persons with disabilities through awareness raising and capacity building so that persons with disabilities fully enjoy their human rights and participate in social and economic and other spheres of life. To achieve this goal, human rights resource unit will be established to provide information on human rights to people with disabilities in order to raise their awareness of human rights issues. The five-day advocacy and human rights training will also be provided to 20 participants, mainly the members of FEDOMA (Federation of Disability Organizations in Malawi) who already have some experience in advocacy. In addition abuse prevention workshops will be organized and the graduates of these workshops will train other 25 people at a grassroots level which will bring more players in the fight against abuses. In this project it is also expected to create a good working relationship with the media, have meetings with the parliament committee and governmental officials, and to organize public lectures and rallies etc. It is a 2 years project from January 2009 to December 2010. The total budget is estimated at US$54,874.
3. Participant from Kazakhstan
Title: KNOWLEDGE for CHANGE - the counseling and education center
In Kazakhstan persons with disabilities tend to have low self-esteem and do not know how to exercise their rights. This project aims to create the human rights center. This center provides counseling to persons with disabilities, conducts trainings to teach basic rights, conducts seminars on disability understanding in order to increase the self-esteem of persons with disabilities and also to make people without disabilities to understand and accept people with disabilities, and conducts the open days and demonstrations in order to promote the rights of persons with disabilities. The target beneficiaries are people with different disabilities between 16 and 40 years old. The total duration of the project is 2 years from May 2009 to May 2011 excluding the preparation stage. The total budget is expected at US$41,232.
4. Participant from Costa Rica
Title: Vamos (Let's Go)
People with disabilities in Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica, are excluded from a society. They do not have access to cultural and sports activities and feel afraid to go out. To change this situation, this project will provide persons with disabilities opportunities to participate in different social activities such as sports, cultural events and other entertainment. In these events, persons with disabilities will also receive information about their rights and how to solve their problems. In order to carry out these activities, a group of volunteers will also be organized to assist persons with disabilities in their going out. At the end of the project, they are expected to be more confident so that they can visit public places and use the public transportation, and they can see themselves as members of the community just as persons without disabilities. The project period is 1 year from January to December 2009. The total budget is US$8,900.
5. Participant from Lao P.D.R.
Title: Braille Newsletter
LDPA (Lao Disabled People's Association) distributes more than 2,000 newsletters monthly to its members in 11 provinces of the country but currently the newsletters are issued only in a printed form. Therefore there have been requests for newsletters in Braille from the members with visual impairment. With this project, exactly the same contents of the newsletters will be transcribed into Braille and sent it out to all the members with visual impairments of age between 15 and 30 years old. It is expected that this project gives them a better access to information, gives an opportunity to learn about many things and a possibility to find jobs later on. It is also expected to change their life and also the society's negative attitude towards them. The project period is 2 years between January 2009 and December 2010. The total budget is estimated at US$ 22,400.
6. Participant from Uganda
Title: Enable Me Work to Live Independently Project 2009-2011 (01, 02)
This project aims to promote increased access to employment among persons with disabilities and it is a pilot project to be implemented in the 23 sub-counties of Masaka District for 2 years from 2009 to 2011. The targeted beneficiaries are the 300 adults with disabilities of age between 18 and 40 years old; 140 persons with physical disorders, 50 persons with hearing impairment, 50 persons with visual impairment, and 60 persons with intellectual disabilities. The project will (1) ensure observance of rights of persons with disabilities at the workplace, (2) eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities in the recruitment and hiring process, and (3) to promote increased participation of persons with disabilities in lobbying and advocating for their employment rights and building their careers. The total budget is estimated at US$30,352.
7. Participant from Sri Lanka
The goal of this project is to provide an opportunity for children with intellectual disabilities to participate in sports activities so that they can enhance their physical and mental capabilities as well as social participation. The project target is 41 children with intellectual disabilities in Puthuvazhupoonga (garden for new life) Training Centre for Children with Intellectual Disabilities and 30 children with intellectual disabilities in villages. This project will (1) provide sports and exercise equipments, (2) provide sports training to resource teachers, CBR voluntaries and children club members, (3) create more opportunities to participate in the sports activities for children with intellectual disabilities in Puthuvazhupoonga, and (4) secure access to the sports activities to children with intellectual disabilities in the villages. The duration of project is 6 months. The total budget is estimated at US$7,038.
8. Participant from Philippines
Title: Laundry Service
This plan aims to employ more persons with disability in order to generate employment for persons with disability to uplift their economic conditions. For this goal, a laundry shop will be set up and 15 wheelchair users of age between 20 and 55 years old will be employed. In addition, 4 persons without disabilities and 6 persons with intellectual disability will also be employed for the tasks that are difficult for the wheelchair users. The potential clients are hotels and hospital which outsource their laundries. The project period is 1 year. The total budget is estimated at US$ 780,000.
9. Participant from Jordan
Title: Al Nahada Human Rights Unit： YOU Have A Voice ‘Enndk Sowt’
In Jordan, persons with disabilities suffer from ‘invisibility,’ being viewed as ‘objects’ of protection, treatment and assistance rather than subjects of rights, and as a result, they are excluded from mainstream society. Disability movement at local and national level is considered weak, which has affected their participation in decision-making process in public policies and also the lobbying and advocacy activities concerning the rights of persons with disabilities. In addition insufficient attention has been paid to human rights issues for persons with disabilities even though they have been discriminated and excluded in daily life. In order to change this situation, this project aims to ensure the promotion and mainstreaming of human rights of persons with disabilities. The project consists of (1) establishing a library with a collection of books, documents, reports etc. related to human rights of persons with disabilities, (2) holding workshops in awarenessraising, lobbying, advocacy and capacity building, (3) teaching the members of Al Nahda Association for Persons with Disabilities how to be more effective advocates for human rights and social justice, and (4) encouraging persons with disabilities to exercise their human rights. The target beneficiaries are community in general and the assiciation members of age between 18 and 70 years old. The project period is between January 2009 and April 2010. The total budget is estimated at US$39,595.
