Rappel

Bonjour,
Peut-être avez vous lu qu'un numéro de la revue ErgOThérapies est prévu sur la thématique de l'Afrique. Je suis chargée de le coordonner.
Le défi vous intéresse t-il ? Lisez l'appel ci-dessous et les recommandations aux auteurs ci-jointes et... à vos plumes !
Il faut arriver à lier pratique et réflexions, questionnements et modèles de pratique.
Le mieux est de se lancer et ensuite on peut échanger sur ce que vous aurez produit.
A bientôt,

Rozenn Botokro
rbotokro@handicap-international-togo.org
+228 22 61 56 94
BP 86 21, Lomé, TOGO

Reminder

Dear colleagues,
I am going to be editing a special issue of the French journal of OT named "ErgOThérapies" on "Occupational Therapy in Africa", which will be published in June 2012.
The language for that publication will be French but English is possible and will be translated.
I have attached the ErgOTherapies author's guide in English and the deadline for submissions is 30th January in English, February in French.
If you would like to discuss a potential submission please do not hesitate to contact me
Best wishes,

Rozenn Botokro
rbotokro@handicap-international-togo.org
+228 22 61 56 94
BP 86 21, Lomé, TOGO

There is a suite of scholarships for Africans to do postgraduate studies in Australia.

Applications now open for the 2012 intake.

Read more here: http://www.adsafrica.com.au/

Edited by Vivyan M. Alers, MSc Occupational Therapy and Rosemary B. Crouch, PhD Occupational Therapy.

This book is a combination of professional ideas exclusively from occupational therapists with first hand knowledge and experience of the profession of occupational therapy as it is carried out in some parts of Africa. Representation is from occupational therapists from Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda. Vivyan Alers and Rosemary Crouch took on the task of editing this booking early in 2009 and the final concept was consolidated at the OTARG Congress in Malawi in September 2009. The authors of chapters have been excellent in the delivery of their chapters in quite a short time and have cooperated greatly with the editors.

The book is the brain-child of the Occupational Therapy Africa Regional Group (OTARG) which is a Regional Group of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT). The idea of producing a book of this nature has been on OTARG’s agenda for many years and is now a reality. The subject matter is basic and down to earth and is intended for occupational therapy students, occupational therapists who are new to the shores of Africa, and for professional who are interested in what an occupational therapist “actually does.” This book will tell you in detail!

It is important to note that the content of the book may be applicable to many other areas of the world, particularly where there are marginalised and impoverished communities.

This book has been funded by the Crouch Trust which has provided the seed money for this publication. All profits will accrue to OTARG in order to sponsor worthy candidates to OTARG events.

Chapters in the book are as follows:

1. Voices of occupational therapists in Africa – Kate Sherry
2. The relationship between culture and occupation in Africa – Rosemary Crouch
3. Culture and cultural competence for occupational therapists in Africa – Kate Sherry
4. Working together to change lives through a multi-disciplinary approach to occupational therapy – Kathryn Bowler.
5. The impact of poverty on the service delivery of occupational therapy in Africa – Rosemary Crouch.
6. Thinking in practice – Jennifer Creek
7. Fabrication and production of low cost aids and adapted equipment – Fiona Kingsley.
8. Occupational Therapy in mentally and physically challenged children – a model for East Africa based on the Tanzania experience – Herma Grossman and Brenda Ephraim Shuma.
9. Forensic occupational therapy in Africa for women and children – Eckiwe Kamanga and Julie Schurgers.
10.  Children with developmental delay – Titi Titus Mwanjabe.
11. Early childhood intervention in South Africa: minimising the impact of disabilities.
12.  HIV, occupational performance and the role of occupational therapy – Kate Sherry and Inmaculada Zango Martin.
13. Occupational Therapy in palliative care in an African Setting – Sarah Matovu
14. Working with trauma survivors. From victim to trauma survivor to thriver – Vivyan Alers.
15. Psychiatry and mental health in Africa: The vital role of occupational therapy – Annah Lesunyane.
16. Development of a CBR programme and the role of occupational therapy – Judith van der Veen.
17. Developing services where there was no previous infra-structure – Christa Meyer.
    

Click here to download and print an Order Form for the book

Disability and the MDGs

http://www.includeeverybody.org/

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have the potential to make life better for billions of people in the world's poorest countries. Yet when they were established by world leaders in 2000 they left out one in five of the world's poorest people.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2009)

“Making the MDGs Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world”

http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1484

You tell us! If you are commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in your community and would like to share an innovative idea that includes other stakeholders, such as your Government, a UN agency, an NGO/DPO or a community, please let us know about it. We will showcase the idea on our website to inform and inspire others to do the same.

Please send your ideas to enable@un.org

Expert Group Meeting on Mainstreaming Disability in Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) policies, processes and mechanisms:
Development for All
WHO Headquaters, Geneva
14-16 April 2009


The Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) organized the “Expert Group Meeting on Mainstreaming Disability in MDG Policies, Processes and Mechanisms: Development for All”. The meeting was be held at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 14-16 April 2009.

Eleven experts with experience in MDG policies, programmes, monitoring and evaluation and disability, in their individual capacity, were invited by the Division for Social Policy and Development in close collaboration with the World Health Organization. Selected United Nations agencies and organizations, and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations participated as observers.

The meeting reviewed existing policy frameworks, resource and tools, and mechanisms for mainstreaming disability in MDG processes. After reviewing the MDG process and entry points for disability the experts provided policy recommendations, linking the MDG processes with reference to other internationally agreed development goals. More specifically, the experts recommend specific and general options of the inclusion of disability—points of entry, specific recommendations, future work in MDG processes, and made proposals for (a) the development of a specific road map and (b) a set of policy recommendations for mainstreaming disability in MDG processes, mechanisms and institutions.


Key findings / Main messages

The Millennium Development Goals cannot be achieved without the full and effective inclusion of persons with disabilities and their participation in all stages of the MDGs processes.
The existing MDGs framework, tools and mechanisms provide several opportunities to mainstream disability in the MDGs.
The existing data gap on the situation of persons with disabilities in the context of the MDGs continues to be a major challenge and limitation. Some data are available, and this could be used to effectively support the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the MDGs processes. 
Action to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities can be taken at different levels—global, regional, national—with a view of short-term, medium-term and long term results—three to six months with a view to impact on the 2010 review session of the MDGs; through 2015; and beyond 2015.
For immediate high impact results, priority is to be given to targeting actions at the global level, in the context of monitoring. These were the focus of the meeting.
At the global level, two main areas of strategic action for short-term results include the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the organization to be presented to the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly (2009) and the Millennium Development Goals report 2009. 
Strategic action with a view of medium-term results would be including disability in the MDGs reporting guidelines, and the need of disaggregated data on disability in the Handbook on MDGs indicators. Working within regional process would also be effective to mainstream disability in the MDGs.
Actions with a view of long-term impact would include mainstreaming disability in the preparatory processes looking at the next steps after 2015.

Roadmap for Action from Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development newsletter

Report of a UN Expert Group on the MDG’s and persons with disabilities

There are no references to persons with disabilities neither in the MDGs themselves nor in the accompanying body of guidelines and policies, programmes and conferences that are part of the ongoing MDG efforts at the moment.  In addition, the new revisions of the MDGs in process do not include persons with disabilities.

Earlier this year, a United Nations Group of Expert, worked to develop a “roadmap” on how the achievement of the MDGs could benefit persons with disabilities.

The specific objective of the meeting was to identify entry points for disability inclusion in all MDG processes for the upcoming 2010 periodic review to have an impact on related policies and recommendations. Participants of the meeting discussed existing knowledge and experience on the MDGs and inclusion of disability within the United Nations and the disability community. Furthermore they discussed in which key MDG processes and documents disability should and could be include. Their specific recommendations contain the “road map” for action. Please read the report and the summary for the main conclusions and recommendations.

This report gave important input to the report of the UN Secretary General on “Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities” which is being discussed by the UN General Assembly this month.

Draft resolution on the “Inclusion of persons with disabilities in the MDGs”

Tanzania introduced this resolution during the ongoing UN General Assembly. The proposed text contains a number of calls and encouragements to Governments, and requests the General Secretary to report back at the UN General Assembly next year. Currently informal debates are taking place.

Hopefully the resolution will be adopted, without many textual changes, on the 3rd of December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities!