Pathways to Inclusive Communities: Navigating the Practice of Community Inclusion for Disability Inclusive Development
TCI Plenary, Multistakeholder, and Partnership Development Meeting
November 16-18, 2024
Bangkok, Thailand
Background
TCI Global, in collaboration with our members and partners, is honored to organize and present our in-person plenary conference focusing on the key thematic of community inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities. We envisage this conference to be a learning space, to foster rich and insightful conversations, discuss and display good practices from the grassroots, contribute to knowledge building, and strengthen collaborations with cross-disability movements and multi-stakeholders. TCI aims to bring together its members, partners, networks, allies, and stakeholders to address critical issues such as deinstitutionalization, access to justice, intersectional discrimination and no access to mainstream services, inclusive development, arts-based therapies, cultural ways of well-being and healing, and advocacy at both global and national levels.
TCI takes this opportunity to pay our respect to the memory of our esteemed Executive Director, Dr. Bhargavi Davar, who steered the vision of TCI and established the foundation for the rightful inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities. We dedicate this plenary conference to honoring her life, her work and her legacy.
Events Planned
- Two-Day Plenary Workshop with TCI Members: 16-17 November, 2024
- One-Day Multi-Stakeholder Meeting: 18 November 2024 (Opening Session of the meeting to be held in a hybrid format) The link will be circulated soon.
- TCI General Assembly: 19 November 2024 (In-person and Online) from 9.00 AM to 11.30 AM BKK time.
- TCI Strategy Meeting: 19-20 November, 2024
Key Thematic Areas to be Covered
Deinstitutionalization
Community Inclusion
Strengthening Partnerships
Access to Justice
Engaging with Persons with Intersectional Identities
Strengthening Leadership and Organization Development
Global Advocacy Landscape
Conference objectives
- To contribute to the discourse and capacity building around community inclusion, deinstitutionalization, and allied thematics.
- To present and disseminate findings, tools and resources for promoting grassroots practices on community inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities
- To strengthen partnerships with cross-disability movements, donor agencies, government agencies, civil societies, and UN agencies to create a unified approach towards community inclusion.
- To generate actionable strategies for movement building and developing informed advocacy initiatives.