20 Participants

9 Countries:Argentina MexicoBrazil PeruChile EcuadorCosta Rica UruguayDominican Republic

Represented Institutions:Inclusion International RiadisRedMATE METATejiendo Alas CIMUDISSociedad Peruana de Síndrome DownREDI

Institutions that supported the meeting:IDA iiDi UNICEFBryan Russell Mujica (Peru) and Daniela Gordon (Costa

Rica)

We invite you to get to know the results!

From 21st to 24th October, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the United Nations Associationto Promote the Rights of People with Disabilities, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a conference on theimplementation of the Sustainable Development Goals Post-2015

UNICEF and iiDi accompanied the event with the Youth Meeting “New Voices, New Challenges”

A selection of members from the group Estamos Tod@s en Acción- META, travelled from their countries to represent the voice of young leaders for the Inclusive Development.

We worked with some questions:In which way do the civil society’s organisations relate to the United Nations and with the Sustainable Development Goals?

What opportunities do we have as young people to enhancechanges and participate in the SDG?

What do we mean when we say “Inclusion” and “Inclusive development”? We talked about:

Women and girls with disability

Children and adolescents with disability Information Technology (ICT) and CommunicationIndigenous Peoples and People with Disability.

We proposed ourselves to: Think about dissemination and communication tools for META’s work. Revise the articles 24 and 30 of the Convention (CDPCD) to present them in a young

language. Present the meeting’s outcomes to the participants of the IDA Conference

to implement ICTs in the Rights PromotionWe tried

Vignetes that tell some identifiable event of daily life. They are usuallyproduced to disseminate massively through the Internet

Radio emissions that a user can download from the Internet and listen to, in computers or portable players

Audiovisual practice from workshop with life stories from participants.

Audio of META’s Foundation Letter

SIGNIDA

Reading of the young people’s letter

o Video-conferences withspecialists

o There were Streaming transmitions to share with the Networks members that stayed in their respective countries.

“I think we need more training, to share ourwork’s experiences and include more youngpeople in the network”

“We need to get involved globally to add efforts in favour of the people with disability. We can contributegreat ideas and take them into action for this to keepgrowing”

“It was the first time I went out of my country, and I really enjoyed it a lot. I loved having theopportunity to participate in such an importantconference with influential organisms. They werewonderful sessions!”“We have to make space for all disabilities, becausethere is more in common than there are differences!”

“Your are bringing what is new to IDA’s meeting. You are the new faces and diversity” Vladmir Cuk- IDA’sExecutive Manager.

“We need the young people to heldus take the Convention everywhere” Rosangela Berman Bieler, DisbilityAdviser- UNICEF

“We can produce a change just by expand theperspective and action range of each organisation in the proposal of interventions and inclusive publicpolicies, taking into account the diversity which isinherent to people.”

Described and replicated whatthey learnt in their networks and organisations

Gave interviews and talks at universities.

Took part in seminars to whichthey were invited.

Several participants, when they went back to their communities, shared what had happened in the meeting:

M.E.T.A - "Movimiento Estamos Todos en Acción” started in Mexico in2013. It is a network formed by and for young people interested inworking for the Inclusive Development.

If you are young and interested in Inclusive Development, we inviteyou to join us :

Visit the group’s Blog: https://metajuvenil.wordpress.com/

Or join our Facebook Group:

M.E.T.A. Juvenil. Movimiento Estamos Tod@s en Acción