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Item | Detail |
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Name | Asia-Pacific Development Cetner on Disability |
Abbreviation | APCD |
Website | http://www.apcdfoundation.org/ |
Organization Type | International Non-governmental Organization |
Disability Type | Cross-disability |
Country | Thailand |
Address | APCD Building, 255, Rajvithi, Rajthevi, Bangkok 10400 |
Telephone | 02-3547505 |
Fax | 02-3547507 |
info@apcdfoundation.org, | |
Contact Person | Director |
Brief Introduction |
The "Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability" (APCD) is a regional center on disability established in Bangkok, Thailand as a legacy of the Asia and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 1993-2002, under joint collaboration of the Government of Japan and the Royal Thai Government.APCD has been endorsed by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific as a regional cooperative base for its Biwako Millennium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive,Barrier-free and Rigths-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons,2003-2012. The APCD project was implemented in Bangkok on 1 August 2002 through the technical cooperation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security,Thailand; the necessary infrastructure was provided by Japan's Grant Aid. |
Last Updated | 02/8/2006 |