Meeting Minutes NGO meeting – DWG Venue: NGO Resource Center office Time: 2:00 PM Feb 28, 2013 Co-Chairs: HI and DPO Hanoi 1. Participants Phan Thu Ha, NGO RC Chu Thi Mai Anh, Spanish Red Cross Peter de Vries, MHI VN Foundation Le Dinh Tuan, rep. of IDEA Truong Thi Ngoc Anh, HI Duong Thi Van, DP Hanoi Trinh Cong Thanh, Hanoi Association of Young People with Disabilities Bui The Hung, Hanoi Association of Young People with Disabilities Nguyen Thi Thuy Nga, AEPD Quang Binh Le Thuy Hang, AEDP Quang Binh Vu Minh Tan, Swiss Red Cross Nguyen Hong Ha, Hanoi Independent Living Center (Hanoi ILC) Do Ha Khanh Trang, CRS Ly Quoc Huy, Department of Secondary Education, MOET Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy, UNICEF Dipark Procrond, UNICEF Nguyễn Ngọc Lan, ACDC Sarah Garner, ABA ROLI Tran Thi Thu Ha, VTV4 Vuong Ngoc Bich, VTV4 Vu Nhu Quynh, Student of Press and Media Nguyen Tran Lam, Child Fund Nguyen Thanh Vinh, APHEDA Chau Quoc Hung, ADRA Tran Duc Hai, PROPEL, ILO Nguyen Hong Nga, CBM 2. Mai Anh’s Presentation: to be sent by email in English and Vietnamese Project: “Support to socio-economic integration and employment for people with disabilities in regions of intervention of Spanish cooperation in Vietnam” Time: Oct 2010 – Sep 2014 Purpose: 50% PWD and 10% ethnic minorities with disabilities will have improved life Promoting the integration of the disabled beneficiaries into the market Achievements: Community is more friendly to PWDs PWDs have better income - The Project consists of 11 steps Success: - PWDs get Knowledge and Skills from the Trainings - Working with the local governments - Good curriculums - Agreement on the plans Outcomes: - 247 PWDs participated in the vocational trainings with 25 different jobs - 95% are satisfied with the curriculum What to improve: - The role of the Project Team - The participation of the enterprises Recommendations: - The participations of the enterprises Q&A Q: Does the Project have the criteria based on the number and types of disabilities or any limitation of types of disabilities: A: No limitation – many different types of disabilities, including people with mental disability – Detailed to be sent. None of the people with mental disabilities left the trainings Trainings on disability and types of disabilities will be organized to the Project Team Q: Any guideline for the suitable jobs? A: There have been three guidelines Q: The sustainability of the Project? A: The result of the Project will be transferred to the Vietnam Red Cross, to be stored at the Department of Social Affairs. Q: Time frame of the Project Report? A: 3-4 months Q: Any orange victims? A: No limitation Q: What kind of enterprise to be suitable for PWDs A: Private, average and small enterprises Challenges: A: - The families do not want to let their children go out to the vocational trainings - Not much participation of the MOLISA and DOLISA, due to the refusal to give allowances to their officials The information and conditions for being the beneficiaries will be posted on the website 3. Activities of the organizations – Overview and Strategy a. Mr. Lam, Child Fund Working on the discrimination on CWD Findings: - The number of CWD is not accurate – different numbers in different reports – maybe due to the categorization of disabilities and the concept and discrimination - The need in wheelchairs is not well identified and some of the CWD have - Communication is poor due to the difficulties in languages - Poor understanding on the rights of PWDs and disability policies - Low income of the families – the families are discriminated, which will affect the thinking of the children – the children have selfdiscrimination and are discriminated by their families – the children have triple discrimination Questions/Comments: Ly: Which disability definition and criteria did you use? A: They have the list and types of disabilities – we will do the survey and categorization ourselves Ly: The trainings to the Survey Team are needed, based on the renovation in the policies. We need to have the most updated approaches. We do not have to have a medical doctor in the Team Lan: We have changed from the health-based to the social-activity-based model Ngoc Anh: we have the general forms, already prepared Lam: We should inform the local health organizations b. Trang CRS An online library is being built. Call for sharing documents. Information, documents and comments will be accurate Question: Tuan: What kind of software for blind people will be there? Trang: the good ones that are used c. Trinh Cong Thanh There will be Job Faire on April 18 and a Beauty Contest for PWDs. The information will be distributed. A Program of Wheelchair Distribution will be done in cooperation with an ILC in Japan Ly: the website with the word “pwd” does not seem friendly to people with disabilities and somehow reflects discrimination. What term to be used? d. Nga, AEPD Quang Binh Activities on: - Medical care - Empowerment - Advocacy The CBR Team have TOT and is in charge of giving trainings to PWDs and landmine victims There hopefully be the ramps built at the offices We do psychology support and loans to self-help groups and individuals We also support PWDs to access the resources. In 2013 we have organized 3 living and soft skills trainings to PWDs so that they can integrate into the society. AEPD have helped to establish the self-help groups, providing them with the working skills, promoting the participation of PWDs by organizing events and exchange meetings We have a plan to support PWDs, working with DOLISA to build a database on disability AEPD will work with NCCD and MOLISA on the guideline on database collection of people with disability in Quang Binh province Internationally, we do the stimulation for the rights of PWDs and a strategy to promote that. Ngoc Anh: appreciate the info and the other organizations are recommended to share with AEPD e. ACDC: continue to support WWDs, especially in reproduction health and loans to WWDs, last until 2016. We also will have judiciary support to PWDs and do advocacy for disability policies. We have fund from the staff of ACDC to do early detection and intervention, working in cooperation with the universities with the Program of Scholarship for Students with Disabilities 4. Working Rules of DWG: The Group will do: - The sharing valuable info on the grants and financial support to the programs on capacity building and awareness raising - The Working Frame - Sharing the difficulties and lessons learned on the models Next meeting: April 4 Topic: Free-legal advices to PWDs Discussion on April 18, call for cooperation and joining activities Additional topics: Education for CWD, Model Overview, Policies Sharing from HI: a training to the NGO team on Project Designing for business of PWDs – the tools and guideline. Registration is invited. Written by Ms Nguyen Hong Ha- ILC