Community Based Inclusive Development Report 2021
In the context of CBM’s new CBID Initiative plan, CBM worked closely together with the University of Cape
Town (UCT), South Africa, to conduct a baseline study on CBID programmes in eight countries around the
world (Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Togo, India, Pakistan and Honduras). The study will be
repeated at regular intervals over the coming years. It will enable us to get an insight into the progress and
improvement of CBM’s CBID work.
The outcomes of this baseline data collection reflect on issues for persons with disabilities in the participating CBID programmes, particularly around discrimination, access to services, lack of participation in community activities and decisionmaking processes at community level, as well as poor representation of persons with disabilities in leadership
roles.
There is substantial divergence in the data across countries and also between programmes in a single country.
The diverse outcomes indicate the need to address these programmatic issues and approaches in a targeted
way and emphasise the need for consistent localisation of CBID programming.
The objectives of the baseline study were to:
• reflect an accurate picture of the status quo in selected CBID programmes in relation to the objectives provided in CBM’s CBID Initiative plan,
• enrich our understanding of the communities in which CBM’s project partners operate, including identifying problem areas in order to facilitate improvement in the implementation of CBID, and
• provide a baseline against which CBM’s work in CBID can be evaluated.
