EU Task Group telephone conference call on "EU funding instruments"
12 January, 11:00 CET (Brussels time)

Inclusive WASH online session 'HIV and AIDS' 
16 - 27 January -> live webinar: 18 January at 10:00 (GMT+11)
>Read more info here

International Conference on 'Good Policies for Disabled People'
22 - 23 January, Vienna (Austria)
>Download provisional programme here 

 Development Forum meeting on Elluminate
23 January; 11:00 GMT (12:00 CET)
>Read more info here

 HIV&AIDS and Disability Task Group meeting on Skype -> Postponed
24 January; 13:00 - 15:00 CET

Using community/researcher partnerships to develop a culturally relevant intervention for children with communication disabilities in Kenya
(Disability Seminar Series at LONDON SCHOOL of HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE)
25 January, London (UK), LSHTM (map): Lucas Room, Lower Ground Floor; 12:45 - 14:00

 HIV&AIDS and Disability Task Group meeting on Skype 
26 January; 15:00 - 16:00 CET

EU Task Group meeting
27 January, CBM EULO Brussels (Belgium); 10:00 - 16:00

February

50th Session of the Commission for Social Development: "Poverty Eradication"
1 - 10 February, New York (USA), United Nations North Lawn Building, conference
room 4
>Read more info here

Hearing in the European Parliament: Defend the Right of Independent Living - How the EU´s austerity policy is undermining the lives of people with disabilities
9 February, European Parliament, Room A1G2, Brussels (Belgium); 15.00 - 18.30
>Download more info here 

Making Development Inclusive
PMAC meeting
13 February, Brussels (Belgium), IDDC/LFW Offices; 10:00 - 16:00 CET

Conference call Partnership Forum on Children with Disabilties
14 February, 9:00 (New York time)

Seminar 'Entry, engagement and empowerment: Dilemmas for inclusive education in an Indian context'
16 February, University College London; 17:00 - 19:00
>For more information and registration, read here

Inclusive WASH online session 'Poorest of the Poor' 
20 - 24 February -> live webinar: 22 February at 18:00 (GMT+11)
>Read more info here

 Organisational Development / Capacity Building Task Group meeting
29 February, TLMI office, Brentford (London); 11:00 - 17:00

Public launch of the Freedom Guide
(jointly organised by European Parliament Disability Intergroup and European Disability Forum)
29 February, Brussels (Belgium), European Parliament; 19:00
>Read more info here

March

IDDC Board meeting
1 - 2 March, Sightsavers, Haywards Heath

9th International Community Based Rehabilitation Training Course
(organised by BIKASH, Nepal and Enablement, The Netherlands)
5 - 16 March, Pokhara (Nepal), BIKASH Training Centre
>Read more info here

CERMI Seminar “Making Microfinance Boards Effective: An Empirical Analysis”
13 March, Brussels (Belgium), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management; 12:30 - 13:30
>Download more info here 

Conference 'Disability-Inclusive MDGs and Aid Effectiveness'
14 - 16 March, Bangkok (Thailand), UN Conference Centre
>Read more info here

Meeting Partnership Forum on Children with Disabilities
17 March, Bangkok; 9:00 - 17:00

Meeting Partnership Forum on Children with Disabilities
18 March, Bangkok; 9:00 - 15:00

April

 Livelihood Task Group meeting
3 April, Paris (France), HI Office

 UN Task Group meeting on Elluminate
5 April; 12:00 GMT (13:00 CET)

May

Inclusive WASH Practitioners' Workshop
1 May, Melbourne (Australia)
>For more info or to RSVP write to here adding 'workshop' to the subject line

Inclusive WASH Case Study Roundtable
2 May, Melbourne (Australia)
>For more info read here
>To attend, RSVP here adding 'Roundtable' to the subject line

Training of Trainers Course in Community Based Rehabilitation
7 - 18 May, Alphen aan den Rijn (the Netherlands)
>Read more info here

 IDDC Board meeting
21 May, Lyon (France); 16:00 (provisional time)

Making Development Inclusive: Capacity-building series
IDDC General Assembly 2012
22 - 24 May, Kyriad Hotel, Lyon (France)
22 May: start at 9:00
24 May: end at 13:00

June

 UN Task Group meeting 
14 June, CBM EULO, Brussels (Belgium); timing to be confirmed.

Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
20 - 22 June, Rio de Janeiro
>Read more information here

September

Third Meeting of State Parties of the Convention on Cluster Munitions
11 - 14 September, Oslo (Norway)
>Read more info here

5^th Convergences 2015 World Forum for the Millennium Development Goals
‘Towards innovative partnerships for poverty reduction’
26 - 28 September, Paris
>Read more info here

November

Disability and Development Module I
(organized by Athena institute of the VU University)
26 November - 21 December, VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
>Read more information here

First World Congress on CBR
26 – 28 November, Agra (India) 
>Read more info here