You are cordially invited to participate in the WHO Online Master Training Workshop for Measuring Access to Assistive Technology on 8 -10 February 2021. The workshop is an integral part of the development of the WHO-UNICEF Global Report on Assistive Technology (GReAT).
The resolution on improving access to assistive technology (WHA71.8) mandates WHO to develop the global report in the context of an integrated approach, based on the best available scientific evidence and international experience by 2021 and progress reports every four years after until 2030.
This workshop will kick off the global initiative of national surveys using the rapid Assistive Technology Assessment (rATA) to measure the need, unmet need of and barriers to access AT in the population. The workshop aims to:
- ensure a common understanding of the purpose and process of the survey among all stakeholders;
- provide step-by-step guidance on the survey methodology and implementation to national data coordinators and the survey teams;
- discuss and finalize the national survey deployment plans.
The workshop will be hosted on the ZOOM platform. The provisional agenda timing is in Central Europe Time.
Updated links:
Priority Assistive Products list: All languages
Meeting Materials
| Topic (Day 1) | Presenter/Moderator |
| Opening Remarks | Chapal Khasnabis |
| S 1.1 – Development of the Global Report on Assistive Technology (GReAT), a joint project of WHO and UNICEF | Johan Borg |
| S 1.2 – Understanding AT and people who use AT (a bit extra time to practice annotation) | Wesley Pryor |
| S 1.3 – Overview on survey implementation | Mitchell Loeb |
| Self-directed exercise 1 | |
| Topic (Day 2) | Presenter/Moderator |
| S 2.1 – rATA in context | Wesley Pryor |
| S 2.2 – rATA structure | Wesley Pryor |
| S 2.3.1 – rATA national representative survey deployment, Organizing rATA | Arne Eide |
| S 2.3.2 – rATA national representative survey deployment | Hasheem Mannan |
| Self-directed exercise 2 | |
| Topic (Day 3) | Presenter/Moderator |
| S 3.1 – Training challenging scenarios & survey tips | Wesley Pryor |
| S 3.2 – Ethics consideration rATA training resources and enumerator competencies & (video) | Wesley Pryor |
| S 3.3.1 – Country presentation on National Deployment Plan (Bhutan, Georgia, Indonesia, Iran, Myanmar, Poland, and Togo) | Arne Eide & Hasheem Mannan |
| S 3.3.2 – Country presentation on rATA implementation | Pakistan WCO |
| S 3.4 – Getting ready what’s next | Wesley Pryor |
| Closing remarks | Hala Sakr |
| Self-directed exercise 3 | |
| Q&A summary | |
Recordings