Successes and Key Challenges in SE Asia for Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement workshop on Disability Inclusion and Victim Assistance in Southeast Asia key challenges Saowalak Thongkuay Disabled People’s International, Asia-Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok saowalak@dpiap.org

DPIAP | Nothing About Us Without Us Situation analysis WHO: 15% of the world's population lives with some forms of disability and approximately 1 billion persons; The Global Burden of Disease estimates a figure of around 975 million (19.4%), and 190 million (3.8%) are severe disability; World Health Survey estimates that 110 million people (2.2%) have very significant difficulties in functioning; UN estimates 650 million individuals with disabilities live in Asia and the Pacific and 90 million individuals with disabilities in SE. DPIAP | Nothing About Us Without Us

Cause of Disabilities Inadequate maternal and childhood nutrition, infection and disease, The lack of clean water, Road accidents, Accidents in workplace, Conflict, terrorism and antipersonnel landmines, orange agent toxicant, Natural disasters have also contributed to the increase, Ageing constitutes a large share recently.

Issues Physical and sexual abuse Gender Inequality Multiple discrimination Largely excluded from educational opportunities Double unemployment rate Access to Universal Health Care Service Accessibility is mostly available in the city Legal Capacity Support decision making system

Poverty and marginalization characterize the situation of majority of the persons with disabilities in the region

Goal: Meaningful participation and equal opportunity

Regional and Sub-Regional Framework Social Development Division, United Nations ESCAP A : The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) B : Incheon Strategy “ Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disability in Asia Pacific ( 10 goals, promote the implementation at national, sub-regional, regional area) B 1: CSOs working groups: 15 members B 2: 15 GOs Socio-Cultural Blue Print & Community (ASCC) A: ASEAN Strategic Framework for Social Welfare and Development B: Bali Declaration on The Enhancement of The Role and Participation of The Persons with Disabilities in ASEAN Community B 1 : ASEAN Decade of Persons with Disability 2011 -2020 B 2 :ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF)+ ADF coalitions at ASEAN State member level

Sub-regional platform – DPO representatives Success Sub-regional platform – DPO representatives Sub regional policy-no policy, no effort Mainstreaming disability approach Disability sensitivity- priority ASEAN RPA ASEAN Disability Forum: full member of International Disability Alliance (IDA) and executive board member to increase/strengthen international, regional, south to south cooperation advancing the implementation of CRPD

Challenges (1) ASEAN system volunteer work to implement disability framework Culture- representation Donor power-money talk, unequal partnership Unity among DPOs Lack of accessibility in public transportation Lack of resource persons/expert to regional movement Lack of evident based policy advocacy papers

Challenges (2) Lack of realizable data on disability Lack of efficiency disability sensitivity data collection system Attitudinal barriers as persons with disability still unseen, uncounted in public policy Geography area challenges Intersectional concept is complicated to understand by many sectors Core human right treaties

Opportunity CRPD ASEAN ratifies CRPD and becomes a state party by region to strengthen evaluation and monitoring process

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