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The I Am Me initiative has worked with Myanmar disability rights groups and Sin Sar Bar creative communications agency to create a video in which persons with disabilities explain how they want to be treated.
This handbook aims to give practical advice for employers in Myanmar on how to create accessible employment opportunities and increase recruitment and job retention for persons with disabilities.
On 24 June 2022, MCRB, Shwe Minn Tha Foundation (Myanmar) and the Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), co-hosted the third online panel discussion on the topic “Realistic and Decent Work Opportunities for Person with Disability (PwD) led/involved
On 12 January, a webinar was held to share experiences on the role of businesses in making their products and/or services more accessible and inclusive for persons with disabilities in Myanmar.
On 26 November 2020, MCRB held its first virtual roundtable discussion series with Civil Society Organizations on “Extractives and Inclusive Business”.
On 24 November, MCRB held its first transcontinental webinar, the first of a two-part webinar series organised together with the Israel embassy in Myanmar, Myanmar Israel Chamber of Commerce, and leading disability rights organization Access Israel.
On 15 February, MCRB, together with AAR Japan, and Japan Heart, held an orientation discussion based on MCRB/AAR Japan’s policy options paper (EN and MM) at Rose Garden Hotel...
MCRB and AAR Japan have prepared a Policy Options paper with suggestions on how to give effect to Chapter 10 (Employment) of the 2015 Law concerning the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In advance of the International Day of People with Disabilities, Vicky Bowman, Director of MCRB, congratulated the increasing number of businesses in Myanmar who are employing people with disabilities because they recognise it makes good business sense.
Second Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Promoting Employment Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
The workshop was part of a joint action on responsible supply chains in six countries in Asia, including Myanmar, to promote responsible business conduct (RBC) with regard to decent work, environmental sustainability and respect for human rights.
Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
MCRB and the International Labour Organization co-hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop on Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities (PWDs) on 21 November, 2017 at Rose Garden Hotel, Yangon.
MCRB has put together a draft strategy for promoting disability-confident and inclusive business in Myanmar in the 2016-18 period.
MCRB has entered into a ‘strategic alliance’ with Business Disability International (bdi).
BDI is a unique global business consortium galvanising the power of multinational organisations to build a more successful, productive, efficient and inclusive future for business and disabled people.
The Deaf Resources Centre (DRC) and Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) have published a guide on Corporate Social Responsibility and Disability’ (CSR-D) in English and Myanmar languages.
Vicky Bowman made a presentation about responsible business and disability to the Experience Sharing Workshop on Disability Inclusive Business in Mekong Countries on 20/21 March.