The National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) in partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will hold a Strategic Planning Workshop (Road Mapping) on the expansion of the Non-Handicapping Environment (NHE) Project for Persons with Disabilities in the Rural Areas on January 21-23, 2013 at the Travelers Hotel, corner Aguinaldo and Raymundo continue reading : Non-Handicapping Environment (NHE) Project
Category: Non-Handicapping Environment
The creation of barrier free society of Persons with Disabilities in rural areas of the Philippines.
Asia Pacific Resource Center on Disability (APCD) Holds Knowledge Management Workshop for NCDA
International Cooperation at best. APCD Information and Knowledge Management Manager Ryuhei Sano engages NCDA/Japan International Cooperating Agency (JICA) officers and staff in the KM Workshop held last June 6, 2012, focused on Video Documentation of the Non-Handicapping Environment (NHE) in Rural Areas. With a storyboard as workshop outcome, this NCDA-APCD-JICA synergy aims to produce a continue reading : Asia Pacific Resource Center on Disability (APCD) Holds Knowledge Management Workshop for NCDA
Non-handicapping Environment
Background The population of PWDs in the Philippines is about 940,000 people (1.23% of the population at large) according to the census executed in 2000. However, if the estimate ratio 10% of World Health Organization (WHO) is applied, about 9.2 million people are PWDs in the Philippines as of 2010. The rights of PWDs in continue reading : Non-handicapping Environment