1. 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

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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.
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3. 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.

4. 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

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

6. Goal: Meaningful participation and equal opportunity

7. 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
B 2 :ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF)+ ADF coalitions at ASEAN State member level

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

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