CBR AS PART OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - Source

approach; strengthening the duty bearers on the one hand and the rights
holders on the other; aims to strengthen their respective roles,
responsibilities and performance in the society, as well as the
communication and interaction between the two. It is therefore not a
coincidence that NAD has supported the two CAN conferences in
Uganda and Malawi, since our organisation also supports their two
governments in developing national community based rehabilitation
programmes.
A prerequisite for NAD's support to these conferences has been that all
the presentations, deliberations and discussions during the workshops
should be captured and translated into a book to be shared with a wider
audience. We do therefore sincerely hope that this book will be widely
distributed and read by senior government officials, NGO managers and
community development workers. Most importantly we hope that it will
trigger the interest of disabled persons' organisations and encourage
them to take an active role in the planning and implementation of
community based rehabilitation programmes throughout the African
continent.
Lars 0degard
Secretary General The Norwegian Association of
Disabled - NAD
FOREWORD
FROM ICH, U.K.
It is a great pleasure to be invited to provide the foreword for this book
which provides clear statements as to how CBR must be seen as part of
other mainstream services and activities and can no longer be viewed as
an as add-on service only if there is a budget available. The book
demonstrates how far CBR AFRICA NETWORK (CAN) has progressed
over the past 4 years, Shaya Asindua in the first chapter outlines the growth
of CAN and is proud to acknowledge its role in promoting the largely
African authorship of the majority of the chapters in this book. It shows
that practitioners from throughout the African continent are now able to
share their experiences with readers throughout the world.
The book extends some of the papers given at the conference and
addresses not only of how CBR should be, but also gives examples of
how CBR can be integrated into different services including health,
economic, education, social and cultural sectors. Peter Coleridge in the
second chapter addresses the issue of how CBR can address the all
important issue of poverty reduction for persons with disability and their
families. In this chapter he gives a thoughtful overview of factors, which
have inhibited the economic progress of persons with disability and
challenges the World Bank's view in 1999 (before the appointment of
Judy Heuman) that persons with disability are economically inactive.
There then follow four interesting chapters illustrating how CBR can be
integrated into first social cultural and political development, secondly
into the economic development of a community, thirdly into community
health development and finally how CBR should be perceived as part of
the inclusive education movement.
The under recognised issue of the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
upon persons with disability and the way in which the (relatively) new
ICF classification system from WHO can be used to assist CBR activities