What is CBR?

• “a strategy within community development for

the rehabilitation, equalization of opportunities
and social integration of all people with
disabilities.
• “Is a strategy for enhancing the quality of the life
disabled people by improving service delivery, by
more equitable opportunities and by promoting
and protecting their human rights”.
• CBR focuses on enhancing the quality of life for
people with disabilities and their families,
meeting basic needs and ensuring inclusion and
participation. CBR is a multi-sectoral approach
and has 5 major components: health, education,
livelihood, social and empowerment.
• CBR was developed in the 1980’s, to give people
with disabilities access to rehabilitation in their
own communities using predominantly local
sources.
• CBR is implemented in more than 90 countries
through the combined efforts of the people with
 disabilities, their families, communities, and
relevant governmental and non-governmental
organizations working in disability and
development. Involvement and participation of
people with disabilities and their families is at the
heart of CBR.

The goals of CBR are to ensure the benefits of the

Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
reach the majority by:

• Supporting people with disabilities to maximize

their physical and mental abilities, to access
regular services and opportunities, and to become
active contributors to the community and society
at large;
• Activating communities to promote and protect
the human rights of people with disabilities for
example by removing barriers to participation;
• Facilitating capacity building, empowerment and
community mobilization of people with disabilities
and their families.

What WHO is doing?

WHO in partnership with other UN agencies,
collaborating centers and non-governmental
organizations is assisting these efforts by:

• Developing guidelines for CBR in partnership with

other UN Agencies, non-governmental
organizations including Disabled People’s
Organizations.
• Conducting regional and country workshops to
promote CBR and to develop national or regional
CBR strategies.
• Supporting member states to initiate or
strengthen existing CBR programs.
• Developing a CBR Global database ant network.

• Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR): as people

taking care of themselves.
• Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR): as a
Concept and as an Ideology.
• Community Based Rehabilitation Programs,
Projects and Organizations (mostly by NGO’s)
The Main Problems of CBR Programs
are the following:

• Poor families’ priorities may be at the level of

survival needs, rather than solving problems of a
disabled member.
• The Organization and Management of good CBR
Programs is complex and difficult, in countries
where people often have no tradition of formal
management and handling funds.
• Highly educated workers don’t like to go into the
field, and may find it hard to communicate well
with disabled people who are often uneducated.
• For several reasons, CBR programs might often be
over-taxing the communities.

• Promoting a positive attitude towards disabled

people. Community members are involved from
 the beginning of the project to ensure their full
commitment.
• Prevention of the causes of disabilities. Simple
measures can prevent disability.
• Provision of rehabilitation services. CBR workers
should be able to provide primary rehabilitation
care and liaise with professional services in
various sectors: medical, eye and hearing care,
physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech
therapy, psychological counseling, orthotics and
prosthetics.
• Education and Training. Disabled people must
have equal access to education and training
services.
• Supporting local initiatives. Income-generating
activities, financial credits, theatre, sports are
examples of activities that can be facilitated by
CBR workers and communities.
•

Community Based Rehabilitation

Program for children and Youth
with Disability
• NORFIL’s community based rehabilitation model
 Helping children and youth with mental and
physical disability is a built-in component of
its Integrated Family and Community/
Development Program (IFCD).
 The program emphasis the concept of
inclusion/integration wherein disabled
children and youth are trained to function in
their own environment.

• World Health Organization (WHO) and in

consonance with the Magna Carta for Persons with
Disability.

 Both instruments recognize community-

based rehabilitation as a feasible way to
decentralize programs and services.
 WHO defines CBR as development approach
in the provision of basic rehabilitation
services to people with disabilities, utilizing
and building on the delivery of services to
persons with the disabilities and their
families. It is good alternative for the delivery
of services to person with disabilities in rural
areas where they are usually deprived
 because of the expensive cost of
rehabilitation services in the city.

• NORFIL’s community based rehabilitation

model has for its primary features the provision of
support of parents in coping with the demands of
bringing up a family member with special needs
and the involvement in the community
rehabilitation process. Its services include:

 Empowering parents in understanding

disability and in rehabilitation skills.
 Community awareness program
 Home based special education
 Physical and occupational therapy
 Pre-vocational and vocational training
 Mainstreaming / integration
 Experiential activities
 Diagnostic / medical assistance
 Provision of adoptive devices
 Counseling and other related to social rehabilitation
services.

• AKAPIN (Akbay Lingap Inc.)

  Organizations of parent and
volunteers.

Other program was helping:

• KAMPI
• DSWD
• READLANI

MAPEH 1B
G2F/4:30 – 5:30 pm

Submitted By:
Krystel Joy G. Baldonado
Jamaica C. Ebrado
Marinel Abalos
Armilyn Amet

Submitted To:
Prof. Marciano Melchor