Programme : Agenda
4 :
CBR Programmes
Presented by
Debra Perry
Senior Specialist in Vocational Rehabilitation
International Labour Office (ILO)
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Workshop on Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
5th July 2005
Debra Perry
Senior Specialist in Vocational Rehabilitation
International Labour Office (ILO)
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International and regional cooperation
- African and the Arab Decades
- Sponsored CBR meeting in Helsinki with major partners in May 2003
- Joint position paper
- Moving Forward---included some examples of CBR
- Community based training---Cambodia
- CBR research project
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Alleviating Poverty through Peer Training (APPT)
- Informal training at community level, using village-based
entrepreneurs who are often people with disabilities
- Started in October 2002 with funds from Finnish Ambassador
- Received continuation funding from the Finnish Embassy for 2005-2007
- Additional funding component from the Arab Gulf Programme for United
Nations Development Organizations focusing on women and families affected
by disability
- Works in close cooperation with PoSAVY
- Building relationships with local NGOs
- Working with Government to replicate project
- Other NGOs now use the methodology
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Success Case Replication
The process of SCR is to:
- Locate successful entrepreneurs
- Evaluate their businesses for profit, market, etc.
- Match entrepreneurs to disabled persons for training in business and
technical aspects
- Oversee training
- Assist disabled person with training fees, grants and small loans as
well as business development services
- Follow-up
- Realize “multiplier” effect---disabled persons then train others
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People with disabilities training others
- Village-based training
- When disabled trainees successfully establish their businesses they
train others
- Skills based on market needs
- Learn technical and business skills
- Grants, loans, start-up support
- Successful trainees become trainers
- Follow-up to ensure success
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PLANS
- Transition to government and local NGOs and providing technical and
management support
- Focus on developing training and replication materials ¯ video,
procedures and replication manual
- Expand the concept within Cambodia and at least one other country
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ILO Research project on CBR
“Strategies for vocational skills development and
access to work for youth with disabilities in Community-Based Rehabilitation
(CBR) Programmes”
- Objectives:
- Identify successful strategies for skills development
- Prepare a guide and training materials
- Produce a manual on skills acquisition
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