Minutes of the APDF Executive Committee meeting
November 28, 2003
At Ball Room, YWCA, Singapore
Attendants
Chair

Ms. Judy Wee, Chairperson of the Organizing Committee of APDF
Singapore Conference

Vice Chair

Mr. Shoji Nakanishi, Chairperson, DPI Asia and the Pacific Regional
CouncilVice Chair

Mr. Graham McKinstry for Mr. JB Munro, Coordinator of Inclusion
International, Asia and the Pacific

Treasurer

Mr. Frand Hall-Bentick, Disability Australia

Secretary General

Mr. Ryosuke Matsui, Vice President of RI for Asia and thePacific

Chairs of Working Committees
Research and Development

Mr. Topong Kulkhanchit, Regional Coordinator,
DPI Asia and the PacificMr.

Hyung

ShikKim,

KoreanRehabilitationofSociety

Persons

forwithDisabilities
Information

Dr. Joseph Kwok, Hong Kong Physically andMentally Disabled Persons

Gender Issue

Ms. Supattraporn Tanatikom, ILP Co-ordinator

Fund Raising

Mr. Godfrey Ooi Goat See, Deputy Director of
Malaysian Association for the Blind

Absentee : Mr. Monthian Buntan, Chair of Working Committee on Convention
Observers

Ms. Kozue Kay Nagata, Population and Social Integration Section,UNESCAP
Ms. Penny Price, Consultant, UNESCAP
Mr. Patrick Ang Thiam Leon, Handicap Welfare Association
Mr. Lim PT, National Council of Social Services, Singapore
Mr. Dal-Yab Lee, Daegu University, Korea
Ms. Nguyen Hong Ha, Disability Forum, Vietnam
Mr. Larry

Wolfe, Health Volunteers Overseas, Vietnam

Mr. John Lancaster, Vietnam Enterprise GroupMr. Akira Kodama, JDF Preparatory Committee
Mr. Ijazula Ali, Care Society, Maldives
Ms. Chiyoko Numata, Japan League of Intellectual Disability
Ms. Naoko Ito, Asia and Pacific Center on Disability andDevelopment
Mr. Fumio Higashiyama, JSPRD
Mr. Akira Terashima, JSRPD
Mr. Kiyoshi Harada, JSRPD
Ms. Miyuki Kaminuma, JSRPD
Secretary:Ms. Etsuko Ueno, JSRPD

Draft Minutes
1. Membership
1.1

Membership fee
It was agreed to set the fee as US50.00 per organization per year.

1.2 New membershipTo ask for application with background paper, and to follow up by theSecretariat with a definite proposal to the Executive Committee.
1.3

APDF Secretariat
Ms. Etsuko Ueno will work for the Secretariat which will be located in
JSRPD.

1.4 Management of money
Designated bank account will be opened with JSRPD.
Approval will be made with the signatories of three out of five Ex Co members
by fax; Chair, either Vice Chair and Treasurer.
1.5 Fiscal year
Calendar year
Audited report is to be submitted when available.
Membership fee is collected in calendar year that starts January 1st.
2. Meetings of Executive Committee
Frequency of meetings
The web meeting is considered as a quarterly base. Spoken meeting is planned
to coincide with USESCAP TWGDC, which is to be held twice a year.

3. Venue for next Conference in 2005
When a relevant INGO is going to organize a regional/international conferencein this region, APDF Conference could be considered.
DPI will consult with Pakistan colleagues about the organization of APDF
Conference in 2005.
Maldives and Australia will also consider the organization.
4. Working Committee
4.1 Research and Development
Following up of implementation of BMF priority areas will be made in thiscommittee.

Poverty alleviation would be taken up as a priority area by theCommittee.
As to recruiting members from each country/territory, each committee will informand the Secretariat will collect the members.
4.2

Information

Dr. Joseph Kwok will ask KAMPI to work for information of APDF with the use ofthe Information Center which was established by RI Hong Kong in Manila.

HongKong will consider to locate the APDF website in Hong Kong.
4.3

Gender issue

Main activities will be mainstreaming of women with disabilities and networking
with A/P Regional network of women with disabilities which is led by Ms. Karen
Ngai of Hong Kong and Women with Disability taskforce of TWGDC.
4.4 Fund Raising
The following ideas were discussed.
Charity Concert/dinner in cooperation with Lions club
Dinner at next conference
Network with private sectors
Establishment of Trust Fund – support registration fee of developing countries
Foreign NGOs (good practice in Vietnam)
5. Logo of APDF
The logo of APDF Singapore conference is used until the formal logo will beadopted.

6. Singapore Declaration
A draft Singapore Declaration, which was prepared by the Drafting Committee,
is to be revised by the Singaporean Organizing Committee, and to be read at
the Closing Ceremony.
7. Next meeting will be on second week of June, 2004 in conjunction with TWGDC
June 14: APDF meeting
June 15 and 16: TWGDC meeting
Meeting was closed at 11:30am.