List of Members
Name: Thematic Working Group on Disability-related Concerns
Chair: ESCAP Co-chair: FAO, JSRPD, RI, RNN
United Nations agencies and bodies:
- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP);
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF);
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP);
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP);
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM);
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR);
- International Labour Organization (ILO);
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);
- World Health Organization (WHO).
International agencies and bodies
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs):
- ACROD (Australia);
- ActionAid India;
- Asian and Pacific Cerebral Palsy Association (APCPA);
- Bangladeshi Protibondhi Foundation (BPF);
- Centre for Disability in Development (CDD);
- CBR Development and Training Centre (CBRDTC);
- Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) (Bangladesh);
- China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF);
- CBM International;
- Disabled Peoples' International (DPI);
- Handicap International (HI);
- HelpAge International (HAI);
- Hilton/Perkins Programme (HIP);
- International Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Rehabilitation (ICACBR);
- International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI);
- Inclusion International;
- Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disability (JSRPD);
- National Association for the Blind (India);
- Nippon Foundation;
- Rehabilitation International (RI);
- Regional NGO Network for the Promotion of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (RNN);
- Save the Children Fund U.K.(SCF [U.K.]);
- South Asian Network of Self-help Organizations of People with Disabilities (SAN);
- World Blind Union (WBU);
- World Federation of the Deaf (WFD).
Goverments:
Representatives of ESCAP members closely involved in supporting inter-country disability-related activities in the ESCAP region, as well as governments that with to participate in the joint activities of the TWGDC.
Semi-autonomous bodies:
Observers:
- Steering Committee, Regional Network of Women with Disabilities;
- Swedish Organisation of Handicapped International Aid Association (SHIA).