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08 November, 2007

Seminar on Disability and Development Co-operation

Seminar on Disability and Development Co-operation
Thursday 8th November 2007

Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Supported by Irish Aid

Facilitated by Dóchas & the Centre for Global Health, TCD

Morning session chaired by Mac MacLachlan, CGH/TCD.
9.00        Registration and coffee
9.30        Opening Address: Senator Ivana Bacik
9.45        Welcome and Overview:  Michael O’Toole, CGH/TCD
10.00      The global perspective:  AK Dube
              Secretariat of the African Decade for Persons with Disabilities
10.45      The European Union perspective: Catherine Naughton
              Christian Blind Mission
       
11.30      Coffee
11.45      Irish Aid perspective
12.00      Speakers’ panel discussion
12.45      Lunch

Afternoon session chaired by Hans Zomer, Dóchas.
1.45        The Practitioners’ View - NGO Panel 
·        John Fleming, SightSavers International Ireland
·        David McAllister, Christian Blind Mission Ireland
·        John Coghlan, Disability Aid Abroad
 
2.30   Disability Research and Development: Mac MacLachlan CGH/TCD
2.50   Open Discussion: Gerald Quinn, NUIG

3.30   Close.

The seminar is followed by the AGM of the Irish Forum for Global Health.