Course for EU staff on "Including persons with disabilities in EU Development Cooperation"

Registration is now open! (Syslog: 400934). The course on disability and development will take place from Thursday 29th to Friday 30th of November 2012 in Brussels. Please note that from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th we are organising another session of the general social protection training course (Syslog: 400922). We invite you to combine both courses!

This course is only available for EU Staff, but all material produced will be accessible for any interested partner and published in the Disability and Development Network.

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Objective:

The main objectives of the course are to raise awareness and build the capacity of EU staff working in development cooperation to include persons with disabilities in their work.

Target audience:

EU staff working in development cooperation and external action, both in HQ and Delegations

Content:

Part I:  Everything you want to know about disability and development.

• Key conceptual understandings of disability and identifying the appropriate “model” for EU work.
• Information on the situation of persons with disabilities in developing countries.
• Understanding disability, poverty and vulnerability.
• Identification of barriers preventing effective inclusion of persons with disabilities and how they can be addressed.
• Policy and legal frameworks including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the European Disability Strategy, and how they link to EU development work.

Part II:  Addressing disability in EU Development Cooperation Programming: From where we are now to where we would like to be.

• Disability inclusion and EU development cooperation: including how to adapt existing processes to be disability-inclusive, how to mainstream disability in key sectors (e.g. education and infrastructure), how to address disability through policy dialogue, how to include disability in Dialogues on Human Rights, how to work strategically with civil society, etc.
• "Nothing about us without us": Participation of persons with disabilities and their organisations in development action.