Technical workshop on ensuring the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities in line with UNCRPD, in connection with the UNDRIP, the Agenda 2030 and the Global Disability Summit consultation
From 21 to 23 June, the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network (IPWDGN), the Narok South Disability Network and the International Disability Alliance (IDA) are hosting the Workshop on ensuring the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities in line with UNCRPD, in connection with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (DRIP), the Agenda 2030 as well as a day of consultation on commitments made during the Global Disability Summit 2018.
The workshop is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, and is attended by representatives of organizations of indigenous persons with disabilities (IDPOs) from different counties such as Narok, Kajiado, Baringo and Samburu; and different constituencies, including indigenous persons with psychosocial disabilities, albinism, persons with small stature and Deaf people.
During the three-days’ workshop, participants are getting exposure to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP). Furthermore, they will be reviewing the commitments made during the Global Disability Summit (GDS) and its implementation to the indigenous peoples in Kenya. The main goals of this workshop are to strengthen the capacity of the indigenous with disabilities group in Kenya on the CRPD, UNDRIP and SDGs as well as to understanding how the COVID-19 crisis have affected indigenous peoples with disability and their representative organizations.
“The IPWDGN is working together with IDA on training and educating regional and national organizations of indigenous persons with disabilities, to be in line with UNDRIP and the CRPD. It is important for us to learn about our rights, to be empowered to be leaders and to know that we have support.” Manase Ntutu, Co-Chair of the IPWDGN
This workshop is co-facilitated by Manase Ntutu (Kenya), co-chair of the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network (IPWDGN) and the chairman of Narok South Disability Network, Alradi Abdalla (Sudan), Bridge CRPD-SDGs ToT Officer, Peter Ochieng (Uganda), Youth Fellow, Agnes Abukito (Uganda) and Kato Mark (Uganda), Fellows World Federation of Deafblind. Distant support is being provided by Amba Salelkar (India), Bridge CRPD-SDGs Officer, Rosario Galarza (Peru), Intersectionalities Officer, and Mirriam Nthenge (Kenya), Technical Support Officer. This group of facilitators brings different local, national, regional, and global perspectives on human rights and development, embracing, at the same time, the diversity of persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples.
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