Documents

• Designing Policy Centric Disability Research in Resource Constrained Settings in the Global South: A Review of Key Concepts

  In this literature review, our aim is to contextualize these in the wider arena of disability studies in the Global South. In doing so, we intend to connect the policy research with the theoretical and policy debates about disability emerging from the Global South.

• Qualitative findings onpersons with disabilities and independent living (Research Report)

  Qualitative findings on persons with disabilities and independent living

• LIRNEasia Enabling the Disabled Myanmar 2018 Event Report
• Enabling the disabled: the role of ICTs in the lives of persons with disabilities in Myanmar (Report)

  Enabling the disabled – The role of ICTs in the lives of persons with disabilities in Myanmar. Research reprot by Gayani Hurulle, Dilshan Fernando and Helani Galpaya. Published August 2018.

• Enabling the disabled: the role of ICTs in the lives of persons with disabilities in Myanmar (Slideset)

  Slideset presented at the report launch on 21 August 2018.

• RFP: Qualitative research on ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities in Myanmar

  We are inviting Proposals from potential Bidders to conduct a qualitative study on ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities in Myanmar. The full RFP is given below. Please also see our FGD Sampling Table, Technical Proposal Template, Financial Proposal Template, and Draft Contract before submitting the proposals. Deadline for submissions is 09 April 2018.  

• ICT accessibility for persons with disability

  Workshop on ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disability Event for disabled people’s organizations and media 12-13 December 2017 Yangon, Myanmar Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), established in 2011, is a self-help organization led by disabled persons that has been working at various levels and fighting for equal rights, inclusion and independent living of people with multiple types of disabilities in Myanmar. MILI promotes disability access in employment, education, health, disaster-risk reduction, social-enterprise, social, political, electoral and public sectors. LIRNEasia is a pro-poor, pro-market think tank established in 2004. It has been working on catalyzing policy change through research to improve people’s lives in the emerging Asia Pacific by facilitating their use of hard and soft infrastructures through the use of knowledge, information and technology. Myanmar ICT Development Organization (MIDO), established in 2012, uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a tool for the development of the country by narrowing the digital divide in Myanmar; using ICT for the country’s development and the safeguarding of human rights; and encouraging the emergence of good Internet policies for ICT users. The three organizations organized a two-day workshop on ICT Accessibility for people with disabilities (PWDs) on 12th and 13th December 2017, bringing together […]

• ICT accessibility for persons for disabilities in Myanmar: event for Members of Parliament: Event report

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Events

• Qualitative findings onpersons with disabilities and independent living (Research Report)
  Qualitative findings on persons with disabilities and independent living
• Reflections from the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum 2020
  The Myanmar Digital Rights Forum took place on 28 and 29 February 2020.
• LIRNEasia Enabling the Disabled Myanmar 2018 Event Report
• Research on ICTs for persons with disabilities in Myanmar launched
  We launched the findings of our research on ICT accessibility for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Myanmar on 21 August 2018 at ParkRoyal, Yangon.
• ICT accessibility for persons with disability
  Workshop on ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disability Event for disabled people’s organizations and media 12-13 December 2017 Yangon, Myanmar Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), established in 2011, is a self-help organization led by disabled persons that has been working at various levels and fighting for equal rights, inclusion and independent living of people with multiple types of disabilities in Myanmar.

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Blogs and Updates

• Disability and Place of Living: Experiences of Disability, Accessibility, and Inequality in Four Regions of Myanmar
  LIRNEasia's Research Fellow, Dilshan Fernando, along with CEO Helani Galpaya, Senior Research Manager Gayani Hurulle and Catherine Mobley of Clemson University, recently published a paper on disability and place of living.
• Designing Policy Centric Disability Research in Resource Constrained Settings in the Global South: A Review of Key Concepts
  In this literature review, our aim is to contextualize these in the wider arena of disability studies in the Global South.
• Qualitative findings onpersons with disabilities and independent living (Research Report)
  Qualitative findings on persons with disabilities and independent living
• Safety-II concepts succeed in Empowering People With Disabilities in Crises
  The impact of disaster on a disabled person’s health is significant, including the number of People With Disability (PWD) deaths, injuries, diseases, and psychosocial problems.
• Reflections from the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum 2020
  The Myanmar Digital Rights Forum took place on 28 and 29 February 2020.
• LIRNEasia Enabling the Disabled Myanmar 2018 Event Report
• Research on ICTs for persons with disabilities in Myanmar launched
  We launched the findings of our research on ICT accessibility for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Myanmar on 21 August 2018 at ParkRoyal, Yangon.
• Enabling the disabled: the role of ICTs in the lives of persons with disabilities in Myanmar (Report)
  Enabling the disabled - The role of ICTs in the lives of persons with disabilities in Myanmar.
• Enabling the disabled: the role of ICTs in the lives of persons with disabilities in Myanmar (Slideset)
  Slideset presented at the report launch on 21 August 2018.
• RFP: Qualitative research on ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities in Myanmar
  We are inviting Proposals from potential Bidders to conduct a qualitative study on ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities in Myanmar.
• ICT accessibility for persons with disability
  Workshop on ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disability Event for disabled people’s organizations and media 12-13 December 2017 Yangon, Myanmar Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), established in 2011, is a self-help organization led by disabled persons that has been working at various levels and fighting for equal rights, inclusion and independent living of people with multiple types of disabilities in Myanmar.
• ICT accessibility for persons for disabilities in Myanmar: event for Members of Parliament: Event report
• Step 1 in ICTs for the visual disabled in Myanmar: bringing stakeholders together to find the technical solution
  Text-voice readers that enable visually challenged persons to access books, websites and other content have been around in English and many other languages for years.