Country Report - Fiji Disabled Peoples Assocition (FDPA)
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Mission

To facilitate, realize, support and promote the equalization of opportunities for the full participation of people with disabilities.

This will occur by strengthening FDPA through its branches and affiliates into an effective, cross-disabilities, gender -sensitive, service-oriented, national organisation and collaborating with Government, National Regional, and International agencies for the efficient delivery of services, effective advocacy programs and promotion of an inclusive society.

Structure Management

FDPA has four affiliate organisations that represent specific disability groups. These are:

Fiji Association of the Deaf (FAD)

Is a self help group run by the deaf for the deaf. It was formed in 2002 and its only deaf association in Fiji. FAD works to advocate for, empower, and educate people who are deaf for self determination and self- reliance.

Psychiatric Survivors Assocition of Fiji (PSA)

Was established in 2004 for persons who have suffered from mental illness. PSA focuses on recruiting members, developing members skills, accessing funding, and creating awareness and links to other mental health stakeholders in Fiji.

Spinal Injuries Association (SIA)

This association was formed by persons who have suffered spinal cord injury to cater for spinal injured person. Overtime they realized that the need is similar to other wheelchair confined persons whether be medical supplies or wheelchair maintenance since other wheelchair confined persons do not have association to cater for their needs.

United Blind Persons of Fiji (UBP)

This association advocates on the behalf of blind and visually impaired people and to promote blindness prevention in all areas of society, and also provide services and aids and appliances to those who needs them.

NBO , President's of FDPA Branches and a representative of each affiliate constitute the FDPA NBR.

FDPA is managed by a five member national board of officers (NBO) at executive level and by the national board of representatives (NBR) at management level.

Activities

  • Human Rights and Advocacy
    FDPA has produced the following resources that it uses for Human Rights Education and Community Awareness these are:
  • People with Disabilities and the Bill of Rights
  • Know your Rights
  • Information Papers on Biwako Millennium Frame work for Action
  • Video on know your right for people with disability was also produced.
  • The youth group also produced short video on issues faced by youth with disability in Fiji. This was done through “Talanoa” (talking about things) young people together with Tui Clery (University student studding Masters of Pacific studies and her project was “Conception of disability and philosophies of inclusion from Fiji) got together and decided to put the issues face by them in a video. The video was lounged together with the information paper that contains information on how disability is understood in Fiji context. The video is based on education, employment and accessibility of the environment.
  • FAD has produced sign language dictionary


Participants at the Pacific Disability Forum Regional Rights Resource Team Advocacy Training November 2007


Participant at the Micro Workshop from May 2008


Hearing the Voices of Young People Members of FDPA Youth Group at the Video Produce Feb 2008

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