The Working Group is composed of 30 members, 15 from member States and 15 from civil society organizations. Its main responsibility is to provide technical advice and support to ESCAP members and associate members, to promote the full and effective implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022. Membership of the Working Group was decided by the Commission at its sixty-ninth session and its seventy-fourth session. The Jakarta Declaration requested the ESCAP Secretariat continue to utilize the Working Group to support the implementation of the new declaration.
Members of the Working Group (2018-2022)
Member States
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Republic of Korea
- Russian Federation
- Samoa
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
Civil Society Organizations
- ASEAN Autism Network
- Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD)
- Asia-Pacific Disability Forum (APDF)
- Asia-Pacific Women with Disabilities United (APWWDU)
- Asia-Pacific Disabled Peoples' Organizations United (AP DPO United)
- Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium
- Disabled Peoples' International Asia-Pacific (DPI AP)
- Inclusion International Asia-Pacific
- Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)
- Rehabilitation International Asia-Pacific (RIAP)
- Shuchona Foundation
- South Asian Disability Forum (SADF)
- World Blind Union Asia-Pacific & Asian Blind Union (WBU-AP&ABU)
- World Federation of the Deaf Regional Secretariat for Asia (WFD RSA)
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)
Members of the Working Group (2013-2017)
Member States
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- China
- Fiji
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati and Samoa*
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Republic of Korea
- Russian Federation
- Thailand
* Kiribati and Samoa share a seat (Samoa: first 2.5 years; Kiribati: second 2.5 years)
Civil Society Organizations
- Asia and Pacific Disability Forum
- Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability
- ASEAN Disability Forum
- Asia-Pacific DPO United
- Central Asia Disability Forum
- South Asian Disability Forum
- Pacific Disability Forum
- Disabled People’s International Asia-Pacific
- Inclusion International Asia-Pacific Regional Forum
- World Blind Union Asia-Pacific
- World Federation of the Deaf Regional Secretariat in Asia and the Pacific
- World Federation of the Deafblind Asia and the Pacific
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium
- Rehabilitation International Asia Pacific Region