Attendants
Chair:
Ms. Judy Wee, Chairperson of the Organizing Committee
of APDF Singapore Conference
Vice Chair:
Mr. Shoji Nakanishi, Chairperson, DPI Asia and the
Pacific Regional Council
Vice Chair:
Mr. Graham McKinstry for Mr. JB Munro, Coordinator
of Inclusion International, and the Pacific
Treasurer:
Mr. Frand Hall-Bentick, Disability Australia
Secretary General:
Mr. Ryosuke Matsui, Vice President of RI for Asia
and the Pacific
Chairs of Working Committees
Research and Development:
Mr. Topong Kulchinkat, Regional Coordinator, DPI
Asia and the Pacific
Mr. Hyung Shik Kim, Korean Society for Rehabilitation
of Persons with Disabilities
Information
Dr. Joseph Kwok, Hong Kong Physically and Mentally
Disabled Persons
Gender Issue:
Ms. Supattraporn Tanatikom, ILP Co-ordinator
Fund Raising:
Mr. Godfrey Ooi Goat See, Deputy Director of Malaysian
Association for the Blind
Absentee:
Mr. Monthian Buntan, Chair of Working Committee
on Convention
Observers:
Ms. Kozue Kay Nagata, Population and Social Integration
Section, UNESCAP
Ms. Penny Price, Consultant, UNESCAP
Mr. Patrick Ang Thiam Leon, Handicap Welfare Association
Mr. Lim PT, National Council of Social Services,
Singapore
Mr. Dal-Yab Lee, Daegu University, Korea
Ms. Nguyen Hong Ha, Disability Forum, Vietnam
Mr. Larry Wolfe, Health Volunteers Overseas, Vietnam
Mr. John Lancaster, Vietnam Enterprise Group
Mr. Akira Kodama, JDF Preparatory Committee
Mr. Ijazula Ali, Care Society, Maldives
Ms. Chiyoko Numata, Japan League of Intellectual
Disability
Ms. Naoko Ito, Asia and Pacific Center on Disability
and Development
Mr. Fumio Higashiyama, JSPRD
Mr. Akira Terashima, JSRPD
Mr. Kiyoshi Harada, JSRPD
Ms. Miyuki Kaminuma, JSRPD
Secretary:
Ms. Etsuko Ueno, JSRPD
Draft Minutes
1. Membership
4.1 Research and Development
Following up of implementation of BMF priority areas
will be made in this committee. Poverty alleviation
would be taken up as a priority area by the Committee.
As to recruiting members from each country/territory,
each committee will inform and the Secretariat will
collect the members.
4.2 Information
Dr. Joseph Kwok will ask KAMPI to work for information
of APDF with the use of the Information Center which
was established by RI Hong Kong in Manila. Hong
Kong will consider to locate the APDF website in
Hong Kong.
4.3 Gender issue
Main activities will be mainstreaming of women
with disabilities and networking with A/P Regional
network of women with disabilities which is led
by Ms. Karen Ngai of Hong Kong and Women with
Disability taskforce of TWGDC.
4.4 Fund Raising
The following ideas were discussed.
Charity Concert/dinner in cooperation with Lions
club
Dinner at next conference
Network with private sectors
Establishment of Trust Fund – support registration
fee of developing countries
Foreign NGOs (good practice in Vietnam)
5. Logo of APDF
The logo of APDF Singapore conference is used until
the formal logo will be adopted.
6. Singapore Declaration
A draft Singapore Declaration, which was prepared
by the Drafting Committee, is to be revised by the
Singaporean Organizing Committee, and to be read
at the Closing Ceremony.
7. Next meeting will be on second week of June,
2004 in conjunction with TWGDC
June 14: APDF meeting
June 15 and 16: TWGDC meeting
