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APCD/WHO Regional Workshop on Reviewing Draft Version of CBR Guidelines

APCD collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) to organize a regional workshop on reviewing the draft version of the Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Guidelines from 26 - 28 November 2007 at the APCD training building. Resource persons to facilitate the workshop were Mr. Chapal Khasnabis, Dr. Maya Thomas, and Ms. Karen Heinicke-Motsch.

Some participants, ex-participants of APCD trainings came from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand; Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) collaborated with APCD to mobilize their personnel from the Philippines and Vietnam to join the workshop; participants sponsored by WHO came from China, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand as well as an Indonesian sponsored by APCD. Self-sponsored participants came from Vietnam and Thailand; a Nepalese came as an observer. The 19 participants were CBR field managers who participated to experience reviewing the draft version of the CBR Guidelines.

The new CBR Guidelines cover Health, Education, Livelihood, Empowerment, and the Social Component. The Livelihood, Empowerment, and Social Components were rather newly developed for the previous CBR Manual published in 1989. The new CBR Guidelines will try to provide a practical guide for CBR managers with local and international NGOs, development organizations and organizations of persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities, their families and villagers particularly, are important targets for CBR. The CBR Guidelines will help realize the change from the medical model to the social model.

WHO is proposing the draft to the CBR Asia-Pacific Congress in December 2008 in Bangkok. APCD will seek to collaborate with WHO along with UNESCAP, ILO, UNICEF, and International NGOs, such as CBM, Handicap International, and World Vision International to organize the Congress.

WHO sincerely appreciated collaborating with APCD and JICA for this workshop. All of the participants felt they acquired new knowledge through the experiences of the CBR field practitioners.