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Cheshire Services Ethiopia
Ethiopian Airlines
The Ghion Hotel
The Bekele Molia Hotels Hiber Restaurant
Fiona McConnon, and staff team of Leonard Cheshire Disability: Sudhindra
C N, Nicki Bailey, Rebecca Lee and Jenny Massey
Hassan Yousif and staff team of UNECA, ACGSD
Braille Transcriptions UK
Fikerte Abebe
Our rapporteurs
This report could not have been produced without the help of the
many rapporteurs who donated their time and skills to take note of the
discussions in the workshops and
panel speeches. They are (in alphabetical order):
Bertha Mumbi
Bheke Jele
Boris Ephrem
Diana Shaw
Elizabeth Wolde Mariam
Enzo Martinelli
Gladys Mutangadura
Imtiaz Mohammed
Jenny Massey
Judi Fisher
K.R. Rajendra
Lettie Longwe
Lynette Ochola
Manhar Mooney
Maria Kett
Meron Tewfk
Nicki Bailey
Nolan Quigley
Omar Abdourahman
Omar Diallo
Orpa Orgot
Pedro Gonzalez
Phillie Khumalo
Phitalis Were Masakhwe
Pradeep Kumar
Rebecca Lee
Sandra Zawedde
Serious Dube
Simon Dankyi
Smiley Wang
Souleymane Abdallah
Sunanda Mavillapalli
Thematic rapporteurs
Access – Osman Bah (team: Simon Dankyi, K. R. Rajendra, Meron Tewfk,
Diana Shaw)
Poverty – Gopal Mitra (team: Sunanda Mavillapalli, Lynette Ochola,
Gladys Mutangadura)
Discrimination – Boneta Phillips (team: Sharda Ramlakhan, Nolan Quigley,
K.R. Rajendra. Souleymane Abdallah)
Statistics – Hasheem Manan
Conference PowerPoint presentations and other details may be accessed on the conference micro site, which is available via the conference link on www.lcdisability.org/international.
Selected papers by conference speakers have been published in three special issues of academic journals. These may be found at: Alter European Journal of Disability Research, published by Elsevier in 2009. Available on: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/fnd/journaldescription.cws_home/714030/description#description
Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 2009 issue of an open-access journal published online by the Ohio State University on 15 January 2009. Available on: www.dsq-sds.org/
Journal of International Development, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, and including a policy arena covering the conference through three papers, released in the spring or early summer of 2009. Available on: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5102/home
This report is available in alternative formats. Please contact Diana Shaw at international@lcdisability.org for more information.
Opinions expressed in this report are those of the speakers and do not reflect official policy or practice of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa or Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Cover: Two boys from an inclusive school in the Philippines © Leonard Cheshire Disability