Regional Conference on Mainstreaming Disability in Development

The ILO Empowering Conflict Affected Communities (ECAC) Project was a corporate partner in organizing the above conference in Batticaloa on 15th November 2012 by the Provincial Department of Social Services. The event addressed the Legal framework of People with Disabilities (PWD) and it’s Implementation Mechanisms in Sri Lanka, Economic Empowerment of PWDs towards independent lives and infrastructure development for PWDs and hazard management. ILO presented a paper jointly with CAMID on its experience on economic empowerment of PWDs under the ECAC Project in selected Divisional Secretarial Divisions of Batticaloa District.