Monitoring Our Rights:
A Tool for Evidence-based Participatory Policy-making
Date: 10 June 2015
Time: 11:45am – 1:00pm
Venue: Conf. Room 12, United Nations Headquarters, NYC
Organizers: Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI)
Co-sponsors: York University, Toronto, Canada
Monitoring our rights: a tool for evidence-based participatory policy-making, will focus on Disability Rights Promotion International’s participatory methodology for monitoring disability rights including:
- Monitoring that includes people with disabilities as integral to data collection
- Well-planned monitoring as a contribution to more effective policy-making
- Recognizing persons with disabilities as legitimate researchers
- Monitoring as a tool for North/South dialogue
- The centrality of North/South dialogue and hearing the voices of people with disabilities to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Speakers:
Marcia Rioux, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health, York University; Canada, Co-Director (with Bengt Lindqvist Disability Rights Promotion International
Jose Viera, Latin America Regional Officer, Disability Rights Promotion International, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kuhu Das, Director, Association for Women with Disabilities (AWWD), West Bengal, India