RI Webinar Invitation- Beyond Rehabilitation: A Multi-Stakeholder Framework for Community-Based Inclusive Development in the Philippines

About the session

Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) has grown from a health-centered strategy into a rights-based approach to disability inclusion. Yet in the Philippines, persons with disabilities still face fragmented services, limited accessibility and barriers to education, employment and community life.

Dr. Adorable presents a proposed framework for moving from CBR to Community-Based Inclusive Development (CBID), where rehabilitation becomes part of wider community development. It brings together the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation (RAFI), Southwestern University PHINMA, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine, local governments and organizations of persons with disabilities, around three pillars:

• Inspiring Actions – awareness, local policy, disability registries and self-help groups
• Enabling Communities – training health workers, local leaders, volunteers and persons with disabilities
• Taking Actions, Creating Impact – access to rehabilitation, assistive technology, psychosocial support and referrals

What you will take away

• Why the shift from CBR to CBID matters, and what changes in practice
• How a foundation, a university, a hospital, local government and organizations of persons with disabilities share roles in one program
• The roles rehabilitation specialists can take beyond clinical care