DRAFT PROGRAMME FOR CBR AFRICA NETWORK (CAN) CONFERENCE 2010 ‘LINKING CBR, DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION’– ABUJA, NIGERIA

DAY 1 Tuesday 26th October 2010

Time / Activity / Facilitators / Room / Emails
2-7pm / Registration / Daniel Tsengu (CBM Nigeria) and Lucy Upah (Nigeria) / MA /

2-4pm / Workshops
Writing and Documentation skills workshop – a tester
There will be a more comprehensive session with conference documenters leading to a one and a half day book development session with the documentation team after the conference has ended / Healthlink Worldwide / Rm 1 /
Linking the MDGs & CRPD / UNDESA (Akiko Ito) / Rm 2 /
‘WriteoutLoud’ (Writing workshop with a difference)
As well as this workshop ‘Writeoutloud’ will be running informal drop-in sessions throughout the conference. / UEA Sue Welfare Mary Jane Riley / Rm 3 /

Monitoring and Evaluation workshop / Huib Cornielje (Netherlands Leprosy Relief) / Rm 4 /


Disability craft fair / Daniel Tsengu / Foyer /
All posters placed in position and available for viewing throughout the conference in the foyer / Fidelis Iyor / Foyer /
7pm / Official Opening and Dinner / Daniel Tsengu and Nigeria conference team / To be confirmed /

Day 2. Wednesday 27th October 2010

Time / Activity / Room / Speaker / Emails
8:30-10:30am / Launch of the WHO/UNESCO/ILO/IDDC CBR Guidelines for community based inclusive development / MA / Session to be Chaired by
A. K. Dube (SAFOD) and Shaya Asindua Ibrahim (UNICEF) /
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Confirmed
8:30 - 9.00am / Address from each speaker about the CBR Guidelines and their role
(5 minutes each): / MA / Dr. Barbara Murray (ILO), Kenneth Eklindh (UNESCO), Svein Brodtkorb (IDDC),Venus B Ilagan (Core Group, RI), Mike Davies (Advisory Group, CBM) & William Rowland (IDA) /
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Not confirmed

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Confirmed
9:00 - 9.20am / Keynote presentation:
CBR Multisectoral Approach and role of UN Agencies / MA / Dr Ala Alwan (Iraq)
WHO /
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9:20 - 9.40am / Keynote presentation:
CBR and Partnership - Role of International NGOs & Civil societies / MA / Professor Allen Foster – CBM (UK) /
9:40 – 9:55am / CBR and Community-based Inclusive Development / MA / Chapal Khasnabis, WHO Geneva (India) /
Confirmed
9:55 – 10:10am / Development process of CBR Guidelines and introducing content outline/structure / MA / Karen Heinicke-Motsch, CBM-USA (PNG) /
Confirmed
10.10 – 10.30am / Discussion / MA / Facilitated by
A. K. Dube (South Africa) & Shaya Asindua Ibrahim (Kenya) /
Not confirmed

Confirmed
10:30 – 11:00am / BREAK / BREAK / BREAK
11.00 - 1.00pm / CBR Guidelines / MA / Session to be chaired by Dr Ala Alwan, WHO (Iraq) and Shuaib Chalklen, UN Special Rapporteur on Disability (South Africa) /
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11:00 – 11:15am / Management of CBR / MA / Dr Maya Thomas/ DrJessup Natalie, WHO (Australia) /
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Confirmed
11:15 – 11:30am / Health Component / MA / Alana Officer, WHO (New Zealand) & Dr Ann Goerdt, New York University (USA) /
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11:30 – 11:45am / Education Component / MA / Kenneth Eklindh, UNESCO (Sweden)/Diane Mulligan, Sight Savers International (UK) /
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11:45 – 12:00am / Livelihood Component / MA / Barbara Murray, ILO (Ireland) and Bob Ransom, EDD (Ethiopia) / ,
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12:15 – 12:30pm / Social Component / MA / Kathy Al Jubeh (UK)/Venus B Illagan (Philippines) /
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Confirmed
12:30 – 12:45pm / Empowerment Component / MA / Dr. William Rowland (WBU, SA)/Venkatesh Balakrishna (India) or Peter Coleridge (UK) /
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12:45 – 1:00pm / CBR & Supplementary chapters / MA / Sunil Deepak, AIFO (Italy) Mike Davies, CBM (Zimbabwe)
Jessup Natalie, WHO (Australia) /
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2:00 – 3:30 pm / Breakout Sessions:
Link between NGOs and Government in implementation of CBR Matrix:
Field experiences from Niger
Field experiences from Uganda / Rm 1 / Soumana Pate (PRAHN, Niger) –
Joseph Walugembe (ADD, Uganda) /

Link between UN Agencies in the implementation of CBR Matrix / Rm 2 / Alana Officer (WHO New Zealand), Dr Barbara Murray (ILO Ireland) /

The role of the community in the implementation of the CBR Matrix / Rm 3 / David Norden Botwey (SWEB Foundation, Ghana)
Second speaker to be identified /
The role of the family in the CBR Matrix / Rm 4 / Marieke Boersma (based in Ethiopia)
Essam Khouzan, Head of CBR Department, SETI CARITAS, Egypt /

The link between NGOs and CBOs in implementation of the CBR Matrix / Rm 5 / Paul Caswell (CBM Country Coordinator, Nigeria)
Second speaker to be identified /
3:30-4:00 / BREAK / BREAK / BREAK
3:30 – 5:00 / What can disabled activists teach service providers?
What can RI do to link rehabilitation and disability? / MA / Donatilla Kanimba (Executive Director, Rwanda Union for the Blind, Rwanda) /
Venus Illagan (Philipines) /
5:00 – 7:00 / Country Group Meetings / Rooms 1, 2, 3, 4 / Joan Okune (Uganda)
Sipokazi Gcaza (South Africa) /


Thursday 28th October 2010

Time / Activity / Room / Speaker / Emails
9:00 – 10:00am / Keynote presentation: Linking research programmes of disability studies, CBR and Rehabilitation
The changing face of CBR
Collaborative inter-professional community based rehabilitation for people with disabilities in disadvantaged communities / MA
MA / Dr. Tlamelo O. Mmatli, Dept of Social Work, University of Botswana
Professor Rati Mpofu (Dean, Community and Health sciences at the University of the Western Cape. Zimbabwean/South African Resident) /

10:00 – 10:30 / BREAK / BREAK / BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 / Breakout sessions:
Linking CBR research to the community
Community action research in disability (CARD) / Rm 1
(MA) / Epraim Nuwagaba (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
Carol Moholo (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
Dr. Ali Baguwemu (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
Professor Sally Hartley (UEA, UK) /



Linking ICF and CBR / Rm 2 / Professor Jerome Bickenbach (Paranet, Switzerland) /
Linking rehabilitation with disability / Rm 3 / Joseph Gona (Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya)
Second speaker to be announced /
Linking CBR to disabled activists / Rm 4 / Prof. Theresa Lorenzo (South Africa)
Second speaker to be announced /
Research on CBR in French speaking Africa / Rm 5 / Speaker to be announced / To be announced
12:00-1:00 / Keynote presentation:
Working Partnerships between CBR and other rehabilitation services / MA / Dr. Alaa Sebeh (Egypt)
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame (Sight Savers International, Ghana) /

1:00 – 2:00 / LUNCH / LUNCH / LUNCH
2:00 – 3:30pm / Breakout sessions:
Link between medical rehabilitation and CBR / Rm 1
(MA) / Dr. Andrew Haig (ISPRM, USA)
Second speaker to be announced /
Link between CBR and Mental Health / Rm 2 / Dr. Julian Eaton (CBM International UK/Nigeria) /
Linking CBR to Speech Therapy / Rm 3 / Joyse Mallya (Tanzania) and Professor Sally Hartley (UK) /


Linking CBR to physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy / Rm 4 / Barbara Batesaki (Uganda)
Second speaker to be announced /
Linking CBR to impairment specific organizations
How CBR programmes can respond to information on stigmatization of people affected by leprosy in Western Nigeria / Rm 5 / Mike Idah – (Rehabilitation Adviser, Netherlands Leprosy Relief, Nigeria)
Bassey Ebenso
(Leeds University UK/Nigerian) /

3:30 – 4:00 / BREAK / BREAK / BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 / AGM – Chairpersons Report, Financial Report / MA / Siphokazi Gcaza (South Africa) and Joan Okune (Uganda)
Soumana Pate (Niger) and Barbara Batesaki (Uganda) /


Elections of CAN Executive / MA / Professor Sally Hartley (UEA,UK) /
7:30 / Conference Dinner / Daniel’s Tsengu and Conference Organising Committee in Nigeria /

Friday 29th October 2010

Time / Activity / Room / Speaker / Emails
9:00 – 10:00am / Keynote presentation:
Who, How & Why?: CBR capacity building in Africa / MA / Professor Malcolm MacLachlan (Centre for Global Health & School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. Ireland)
Second speaker to be announced /
10:00 – 10:30 / BREAK / BREAK / BREAK
10:30 – 12:00pm / Breakout sessions:
Synchronizing CBR Training / Rm 1 / Victor Locoro (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
Second speaker to be announced /
Including CBR Training in other trainings
Training the community (French) / Rm 2
Rm 3 / Mr Majisi John (University of Winneba, Ghana)
Rozenn Botokro (West Africa, Handicap International /

Including disability studies in rehabilitation studies / Rm 4 / Dr. A.F Yakubu (Nigeria)
Siphokazi Gcaza (South Africa) /

CBR and Empowerment Training
The role of PWDs in training of CBR workers. / Rm 5 / Aubrey Webson (Antigua)
Robert Nkwangu (UNAD,Uganda) /

CBR training in French speaking Africa
Training Sengalese Women in CBR / Rm 6
Rm 7 / Alfred Angaman
(Ministry of family and Social Welfare-Coted’Ivoire)
Annmie Mortimer (Belgium/Senegal) /

12:00 – 1:30pm / Closing session
Resolutions/Conference Declarations / MA / Daniel Tsengu’s Conference Team /
1:30pm / LUNCH AND FAREWELL / LUNCH / LUNCH

Rm – Room

MA – Main Auditorium

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