Special Talent Exchange Program (STEP)

Disability Inclusive Project Management Summary STEP in collaboration with Air University, Islamabad organized a session for students of Management Sciences on Disability Inclusive Project Management. The event was attended by students and Head of Department "Management Sciences"!. Mr. Muhammad Atif, Executive Director and Ms. Abia Akram, Project Director have been delivered the lectures to the students of the University. The also sensitized the students about the rights of persons with disabilities. My principle motivation behind the disability inclusive project management session where persons with disabilities themselves or individuals from their families start to lead the pack in the executives, arrangement…

Summary A commitment on the rights, freedom, dignity and inclusion of people with disabilities was endorsed today in a summit hosted by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This summit was organized as a satellite event in connection with the Global Disability Summit which will take place on July 24 in London to mobilize global commitments on disability. The summit was organized in collaboration with the Special Talent Exchange Programme (STEP) and Sight savers. A large number of representatives of Disabled Persons Organizations (DPOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government, media and donors attended the event and discussed measures to improve…

Pakistan Mobile App Awards Pakistan Mobile App Awards 2016, is a joint initiative of PTA, Ministry of Information Technology and Internet Society (ISOC) Asia-Pacific Bureau in partnership with, National ICT R&D Fund, Telenor Pakistan, Special Talent Exchange Program, Youth Foundation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Pakistan Foundation Fighting Business and Pakistan Blind Cricket Council. This initiative has been taken to encourage Pakistani individuals who have developed the most innovative user generated or professionally produced content. President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday said that focus on Information Technology (IT) for stability of national economy was must and the use of IT…

Leadership Conference of Persons with Disabilities A declaration calling for the ratification of United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) was endorsed at the National Leadership Conference for Persons with Disabilities. Held at the National Institute for Special Education (NISE) from 12-14 Aug 2009, the conference was organized by Special Talent Exchange Program (STEP) in partnership with Telenor Pakistan’s flagship corporate initiative “Khuddar Pakistan.”  The conference witnessed an unprecedented attendance of 50 Disabled Persons Organizations, key leaders from the disability rights movement, state officials, disability advisors, volunteers as well as Telenor Pakistan management.

National Meeting of DPO's Government of Pakistan, development organizations and self-help organizations of persons with disabilities all over the country are contributing in the rehabilitation, empowerment and mainstreaming of disabled persons since early 80s but a dire need has always been felt to have a national podium with shared goal. With the prime objective of carving a common agenda the meeting was called.   With the introduction of organizations a warm up facilitation organized for DPOs representatives for better understanding working as network. Next day a brain storming session started how to strengthen National level mechanism of DPOs in Pakistan.…

Center for Research on Inclusive DevelopmentIn Pakistan, estimates of the number of persons living with disabilities vary between 3.3m and 27m, depending on whether they are based on government statistics (the last census which measured the prevalence rates was taken in 1998) or whether they come from other agencies. Pakistan did, in fact, make early attempts at including persons with disabilities in the 1980s with the introduction of education and employment policies, setting up special schools for persons with disabilities, for example, and mandating businesses to employ persons with disabilities through a quota-based system and levies. But although these were…