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CBR POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION Editors Sally Hartley Joan Okune Published by University of East Anglia Norwich 1 CBR POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION Foreword Foreword 2 3 CBR POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION Acronyms Used Editorial 4 5 CBR POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION CONTRIBUTORS Contributors PINDA AKOUA BOWESSIDAJAOU Pinda is an expert technician in Physiotherapy having undergone intensive training in Lomé at the National School of Medical ADEWALE ADEOYE Auxiliaries (ENAM) and the Clinikum University of Berlin and Freeburg in Germany. She heads the Disabilities and Trauma Adewale Adeoye is a PhD student at the Faculty of Health, Program on Prevention/Rehabilitation and has been Director of University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. His PhD thesis is on the National Centre of Orthopaedic Appliances & Physiotherapy “Developing an Evidence Base for Community-Based (CNAO) of Lomé-TOGO since March 2001. The CNAO Rehabilitation; an example from Uganda”. This revolves around programme covers the whole country with support from WHO, providing evidence to justify Community-Based Rehabilitation Handicap International, ICRC Special Fund for the Disabled; (CBR) programme as well as develop viable tool to measure Ministry of education, Social Affairs, Sports and Hobbies; Federation effectiveness of such programmes. He is also assists in research of Disabled Associations. and documentation for Community Based Rehabilitation Africa Network (CAN), He has an MPH degree from University of Dundee, U.K. He previously practiced medicine in Nigeria and was ALFRED ANGAMAN KADIO involved in various community health developmental projects Mr. Angaman is presently Head of the Rehabilitation services at relating to paediatric care such as immunisation, nutritional the Ministry of Social Welfare in Ivory Cost. He is the acting rehabilitation, HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Coordinator of CBR programmes in Ivory Cost. Mr. Angaman trained as a special teacher and holds degrees in literature and in KENNEDY AKOLO communication. Before his assignment as head of rehabilitation, Mr. Angaman worked in the Socio Education Complex of Abidjan Kennedy Akolo is Programme Manager Disability for VSO Jitolee, Nord as coordinator of the programmes for integration of the street Programme in Kenya. His qualifications include BA (Economics youth. and Sociology) from Kenyatta University in Nairobi. Akolo has over 13 years development work experience gained in East Africa working within the in Education, Disability and governance themes. MARIEKE BOERSMA At the VSO Jitolee, Akolo manages the disability programme; Global Marieke is a rehabilitation consultant with Light for the World, based Education and monitoring and evaluation. He is also involved in in Ethiopia. She is a physiotherapist by profession and has been the African Campaign for disability and HIV and AIDS. Akolo also working with the University of Gondar (North Ethiopia) to seats on the board of The Peace Building and Development establish the first BSc in Physiotherapy in the country and she has Initiatives Foundation, an organization that focuses on governance started a CBR program connected to the University. She is a trainer and social change. and advisor on programme development of CBR programs in collaboration with the National CBR Network in Ethiopia as well 6 7 CBR POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION CONTRIBUTORS as for individual CBR projects in-and outside of the country. In field of CBR, P&O, physiotherapy, speech therapy, and wheelchair addition, she is currently a student of the Masters of Medical production. Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, where she started her study on violence against children with a disability. PAUL CHAPPELL Paul has a spinal injury following a motor vehicle accident whilst HENDRIETTA IPELENG BOGAPANE-ZULU. working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After completing Hendrietta is visually impaired, married with three daughters and his MSc in Community Disability Studies at the Centre for an activist on disability rights, gender, HIV & AIDS, children and International Development (CIDH) in London, he took up a position youth. She is also a policy analyst and developer, a trainer, business of CBR Trainer at CREATE in South Africa where he has been a woman, consultant, researcher on disability, development and HIV volunteer for the past 4 years. During this time he has been involved and AIDS and a writer on disability. She joined the South African in the curriculum design and training of mid-level rehabilitation Parliament at the National Assembly as Member of Parliament in workers, as well as research into the impact of CBR in South Africa. June 1999 to 2004. She was appointed as Chairperson of the He is also involved in carrying out disability awareness amongst Parliamentary Joint Monitoring Committee on the Improvement of established local HIV/AIDS organisations and is currently Quality of Life and Status of Youth Children and Disabled Persons. undertaking his PhD looking at the construction of sexual identity Hendrietta also serves on the South African National Aids council amongst youth with disabilities in rural South Africa. representing the disability sector. She was employed by Disabled People South Africa (DPSA) as the National Coordinator Disabled HUIB CORNIELJE women’s Development Programme (DWDP) and is a consultant for the television series Soul City. Huib Cornielje origins are in physical therapy with postgraduate qualifications in health science, adult education and public health from South Africa and The Netherlands. Currently he is trainer and ROZENN BOTOKRO consultant within his own agency ‘Enablement’ which organizes Rozenn is the Rehabilitation Advisor for West and Central Africa annual international courses in Policy and Management of Disability for the NGO Handicap International. After 3 years living in Burkina and Rehabilitation. He is also involved in in-country training Faso, she now lives in Togo. As an Occupational Therapist in France programmes in the area of Community Based Rehabilitation and in she has worked for 13 years with persons with physical and mental policy development and (evaluation) research of disability disabilities. She also managed rehabilitation teams in public hospitals programmes. Huib is one of the initiators of the Dutch Coalition before working in West Africa. Currently, she advises about 15 on Disability and Development (DCDD). He is also working as project managers/coordinators in 6 countries: Mali, Sierra Leone, senior lecturer in area of Public Health at the University for Allied Liberia, Cap-Vert, Togo, Burkina Faso. She also works with Niger, Sciences in Leiden. Benin, Senegal, Ivory Coast. The projects she advises are in the 8 9 CBR POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION CONTRIBUTORS MIKE DAVIES Cheshire Disability based at the central office in London, UK. He is responsible for planning, supervision, monitoring and evaluation Mike Davies is CBM’s Regional Director for South-East Asia & of regional disability and development programmes in Southern Pacific, based in Manila, and is responsible for technical and financial Africa, East and North Africa and West Africa. His professional support to a network of 94 programmes in ten countries. He is a training background is in ‘Public Health’ in Zimbabwe and he later former coordinator for CBM’s Advisory Group on CBR, and a studied for a post graduate qualification in ‘Disability and current member of CBM’s Advisory Group on Community Mental Development’ in the UK. He formally, worked as a ‘Public Health’ Health. A social worker by profession, Mike has been working in Officer with the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe and later joined the disability and development field since 1968, in Africa and the NGO sector. He, then managed the Save the Children USA Asia. Before joining CBM in 1993, he was a Chief Technical Adviser ‘National Chid Survival Action Programmes’ and later moved to in Vocational Rehabilitation with the International Labour Save the Children Norway. His research interests include ‘public Organisation (ILO), and before that was Director of Rehabilitation health’, ‘child deafness and communication’, disability and Services in Zimbabwe. He has been centrally involved in the development, inclusive education, cultural diversity and development of the global CBR Guidelines and the launch of the ‘community-based rehabilitation’. Global Forum for Community Mental Health. Mike was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth in 2006 for his 35 years of work with people with disabilities. ORLAITH GALLAGHER Orlaith has worked on Landmine programmes and with UNICEF ANDREW KUDAKWASHE DUBE to promote mainstreaming of disability activity into all UNICEF programmes. she was the Project officer for the Mine Risk Education I have worked with international and grassroots community (MRE) programme which was a joint venture supported by DfID organisations and completed assignments in a number of countries, and UNICEF to strengthen programming as it applies to including Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Senegal on humanitarian activities. behalf of the Africa Decade of Disabled People Secretariat. I completed strategic planning assignments in Swaziland and Namibia for the disability sector and government. I have experience working SALIF GANDEMA closely with government departments in the Southern African region Salif Gandema is a doctor who specialises in physical medicine and at policy planning level. I won tenders to design