Overview
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) as a Strategy for Rehabilitation, Equalization of Opportunities, Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities.
This topic is awaiting a convener - could he / she be you?
In the mean time - be aware that the People's Health Movement http://www.phmovement.org/ is seeking to coordinate contributions about CBR to WHO excercise of "CBR Global Mapping".
WHO, UNESCO and ILO are developing Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Guidelines following Helsinki (2003) recommendations and CBR Joint Position Paper 2004 which adopts CBR as a Strategy for Rehabilitation, Equalization of Opportunities, Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities. The involvement of people with disabilities in all development initiatives is changing - "Nothing about us without us".
CBR needs a new impetus to cope with world changes and, at the same time, needs to be developed as a profession. People with disabilities and their families must lead a quality of life and be equal member of the community with equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities. The strategy needs to be multisectoral.
To achieve this, CBR implementers need to have access to up to date information, a forum for sharing successes and failures, a guiding group for the beginners, a platform to network with other like minded developmental organizations - a Global CBR Network which will be an amalgamation of 3 Continental CBR Network - Asia, Africa and America.
Towards this, WHO has initiated an exercise of "CBR Global Mapping" (a database of CBR implementers and CBR resource personnel). WHO is asking your assistance to carry out this ambitious project. WHO has developed a simple outlook based contact form which is enclosed herewith. WHO would appreciate, if you know any CBR organization or resource person - please share this note with them and request them to send the form back to us for further action.
Please fill up the form (below - copy the text into your email) and send to the People's Health Movement (claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn) with a copy to Chapal Khasnabis (khasnabisc@who.int). If you say you heard about this scheme through Community Health Global Network, that would be great.
CBR GLOBAL ATLAS please complete and send.
Name
job title
Full Address
phone and fax
email
webpage
legal identity
Areas of expertise
Population covered
CBR beneficiaries
No. of CBR staff
Geographical coverage
partnerships with...
Areas of intervention health, education, livelihood, empowerment, poverty alleviation, advocacy...
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This topic is convened by: |
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Dr Nick Henwood
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