6th Africa Forum, Kampala, Uganda

WORKSHOPS AND INTERACTIVE SESSIONS (14:00 – 16:00)

Fundraising; What Works In Africa And What Is The Future Potential? (Victoria Hall)

Arnt Holte, WBU President, Penny Hartin, WBU, CEO, Jace Nair, AFUB President,

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A discussion of which fund raising methods that work globally and may be transferrable, verses what is possible within developing African nations for civil society organizations struggling to conduct their humanitarian work despite lack of funding. What methods can be carried over and what will be unique in Africa? Discussion will also cover the cultural norms and introducing the idea of fundraising locally amid culture patterns and views toward the disabled and society’s desire (or lack of) to help them. The Workshop will also discuss the report from the Fundraising Workshop for the AFUB Board held on 27 March 2015 facilitated by Dr William Rowland and to consider proposals from member countries and development partners to develop plans to generate financial resources to ensure the long term operation of the organization.

Mandate Of UNCRPD To Post 2015 Development Agenda (Meera Hall)

Dr. V. J. Cordeiro, WBU, India.

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The key objective of this workshop is to facilitate the participants to understand and internalise the overview and mandate of UNCRPD with specific articles of development in relation to focus areas of post 2015 development agenda. The workshop aims to cover the important topics from the focus areas of post 2015 development agenda through presentation, question-answer, small group work, brainstorming and debate. The duration of the workshop will be 3 hours and around 50 participants are expected to attend the same. The work shop has been divided in to three parts. The first part covers the general introduction to CRPD and its mandate to post 2015 development agenda and a brief update on post 2015 development agenda. The second part covers the panel discussion on specific articles and analyses the mandate of these articles for post 2015 development agenda and its focus areas. The last part covers the question and answer session.
Youth Engagement and Leadership (Sheena Hall)
C. Mossop and D. Bergeron, CNIB, Canada.

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Youth are the leaders of the future. If organizations are to continue to be effective moving forward, we will need to include our youth in the organizations activities and decision making processes. In order to do this affectively, we need to engage our youth and help them to develop their leadership skills in a way that interests them and brings out their passion. This session will examine 5 practices of leadership that resonate with youth; discuss how to build on assets; and provide the participants an opportunity to share their experiences in the area of youth engagement and leadership within their own organizations. Thoughts and ideas generated from this session will be brought back to the World Blind Union (WBU) Youth Engagement and Leadership Committee to help them in their future work.
Access To Environment And Transport Systems Situations In Africa And The Way Forward (Royal Hall)
M. Abel-Williamson, WBU, New Zealand.

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The introduction will focus on informing the Forum about the existence of the relevant WBU working group and that outcomes on the day would be around how its current work can progress barrier-free design in Africa. Thereafter, several topics will then be scoped and briefly discussed in small groups. This will include topics such as access to the environment, transport for health and recreational purposes, access to public transport services, linking access planning to frameworks and principles such as CPTED, ways of empowering people with visual impairment to influence transport providers and government agencies and aspects that can be possibly teased out, and, the role of the WBU to support progress in Africa. The last aspect can be discussed once all have been formed back into the main group. If the small group discussion approach is to work, group facilitators (and especially note takers) will be required.

ICEVI: Methodologies For Early Intervention And Working With Children With Multiple Disabilities (Regal Hall)

K. Ferrell & L. Piccione, ICEVI, Argentina.

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ICEVI believes that early intervention is an integral part of the educational services for persons with visual impairment . ICEVI has also developed a sample curriculum for preparing teachers wherein adequate emphasis on early intervention has been given. ICEVI also realizes that many traditional training programmes do not provide adequate focus on multiple disabilities and as a result the ICEVI regions organize a number of capacity building programmes in this area as a part of the global campaign. During this session, qualified professionals will enumerate the methodology of early intervention as well as assessment of children with visual impairment. In addition, experts who are directly providing training to teachers of children with multiple disabilities and share educational activities that can be practiced to bring out the best in visually impaired children who have multiple disabilities will speak.

Awareness Seminar On Assistive Technology And Reading Options For The Print Impaired (Majestic Hall)

Dipendra Manocha, DAISY Consortium, India.

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Target audience for this seminar include Persons with print disabilities teachers, trainers and organizations working with persons with disabilities. The seminar will focus on an overview of assistive technologies for the print impaired and their role in education, employment & recreation; alternative formats available for reading material and sources of accessible content.

Enhancing e-Research Capacity Amongst Persons with visual impairment (Emerald Hall)

Dr. S. Ngubane-Mokiwa, &, T. Ongolo, UNISA (IODL) South Africa.

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The is an interactive session with Forum participants to explore research opportunities with Universities and how disability managers and activists can use research to inform campaigns. The session will cover the following: Discuss the understanding of research and how it impacts on their advocacy work; Need for an Audit of research capacity/capabilities amongst PwVIs; Discussion of research software; Research software they would like to learn; Discussion on research approaches and methodologies; andStrengths and threats of doing and participating in online research.

Atlas Alliance Workshop On Media and Disability (Amethyst Hall)

Anne Nyeggen, Atlas Alliance, Norway

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This is a closed-door training to build the skills of communications and media workers as well as people working in the disability sector in developing content and working with the media for positive portrayal of disability Participants to this workshop have already been selected.

INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS (16:30 – 18:00)