The document discusses community-based rehabilitation (CBR) and emphasizes the importance of community participation in achieving program success. It outlines factors influencing participation such as diversity, values, needs, and barriers, as well as the challenges faced in organizing self-help groups for people with disabilities. The text highlights the need for strategic planning and inclusive practices to enhance the involvement and empowerment of individuals with disabilities in development processes.

1. Community Based
Rehabilitation
Community
Participation
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2. Community Participation
An active process where
intended beneficiaries influence
program outcomes and gain
personal growth (Oakley, 1989).

3. Small Projects
Large Projects
in response to
community’s needs show higher level
of participation.
with extensive service
delivery systems that lack client-
centered planning generate little
community participation and ownership .

4. 5 Factors Influencing Community
Participation in Community Based
Rehabilitation (CBR)
1. Community Diversity
2. Community Values and Culture
3. Community Needs
4. Barriers to Community Participation in CBR
5. Planning for Community Participation in CBR

5. Community Diversity
Noun. social inclusiveness: ethnic
variety, as well as socioeconomic and
gender variety, in a group, society, or
institution.
Diversity

6. with these vast differences within a
community it causes problems of
co-ordination of services.
communities at times become less
supportive and refuse to take up collective
responsibility for issues related to their
minority group.

7. Community
Values and Culture
Western
society
Asian
society
vs.
Individualism Collectivism

8. COMMUNITY
NEEDSFunctional Interdependence
Supportive Services
Efficient Management Systems
Easy access to resources

9. Abdication of Responsibilities
Poverty
Personal motives
BARRIERS OF
COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION IN CBR
1.
2.
3.

10. PLANNING FOR
COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION IN CBR
Motivate
Strategic Planning
1.
2.

11. Community Based
Rehabilitation
Organizing Self-Help Groups
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12. Introduction
The field of disability rehabilitation
has thus moved from medical and
impairment oriented activity, to one
focusing on rights and group
organization.

13. Why Do Persons with Disabilities Get
Excluded fromthe Development
Process?
• People with disabilities have often beenPeople with disabilities have often been
described as the “hard-core poor”.described as the “hard-core poor”.
• They are also difficult group to carry outThey are also difficult group to carry out
interventions for, because of theirspecialinterventions for, because of theirspecial
needs and attitudinal barriers.needs and attitudinal barriers.

14. Some reasons for exclusion of people of
disabilities frommicro credit programs are:
Negative attitudes and prejudices about credit-
worthiness of people with disabilities;
Lack of policies, knowledge and skills on the
part of development organizations to include
people with disabilities into credit programs;

15. Mobility problems of people with
disabilities that prevent themfrom
attending meetings;
Low level of education and skills in
disabled persons due to theirlackof
access to these services;

16. Lackof flexibility in existing credit
operations to facilitate inclusion of
people with disabilities.
Expectations of charity and lackof
motivation on the part of persons with
disabilities and theirfamilies.

17. What is a Self-help Group?
A self-help group is a voluntary
association of people that functions
democratically and accountability, to
achieve the collective goals of the
group.

18. Characteristics of Democratic
Self-Help Groups
Firstly, in such groups, members come
together to fulfill a commonly perceived
need. The goals:
need to be clear,
known to and
shared by all members.

19. Secondly, every members in a democratic
group has a role to perform and makes
decisions in a participatory way to
achieved a set of shared goals.
Third, is the value addition that each
member brings to the group in order to
achieve the shared goals. 19

20. Challenges in Organizing Groups
of People with Disabilities
Urban Areas (Lowerincome sections)
1. Living in poorersections
2. Exhibits social discomforts
3. No permanent address
4. Do not easily formhuman bonding
5. Show less concern forcollective causes

21. Rural Areas
1. Distances between clients
2. Difficult terrain
3. Fear
4. Minority
In General
1. Lack of motivation (disabled people)
2. Lack of Trust
(members and inadequate knowledge)

22. Organizing Self-Help Groups
of People with Disabilities
Meetings need to be arranged in
places that are accessible and not
distant from member’s dwellings.
Pre-conditions

23. Groups should set the dates for
meetings and intimate the agenda
earlier, and should discuss matters that
concern them directly,
A facilitator maybe needed in the
initial stages to ensure that chosen leaders
do not dominate the group.

24. Assigning tasks and responsibilities
to group members acts as a motivator
to keep them involved.
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