Community-Based Inclusive Development
CBID Good Practices

FOREWORD

In preparation for the 3rd Asia-Pacific CBR Congress, which is due to be held in Tokyo on September 1 to 3, 2015, we have gathered a collection of good practices of Community-based Rehabilitation.

Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR), which was promoted by WHO since the 1980s, was guided by the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities enacted in 2006. The CBR Guidelines of 2010, created by the combined efforts of WHO, ILO and UNESCO, stipulates that the objective of CBR is to achieve Community-based Inclusive Development (CBID). CBID means, “No one should be excluded,” and that society must be inclusive. In the Incheon Strategy, which sets a framework for the new Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, CBID is also stated as one of the policy guidelines.

The CBR Asia-Pacific Network, whose secretariat is in Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD, Bangkok), decided to collect good practices of CBID from the Asia and Pacific region, and disseminate them to the participants of the CBR Congress this year. Similarly, we have also made a collection of Japanese good practices. These cases show some practical examples of how various problems are resolved within the community by taking disability inclusive approaches when initiating change in the community.

During the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, a new development framework for 2015 will be adopted. Its main philosophy is “No one left behind.” To help achieve this goal, we hope this collection will present good examples of persons with disabilities being included like everyone else so that through international cooperation we can help promote community welfare and inclusive development in each country.

Our gratitude goes out to the people and organizations that helped us compile this collection, including the Japan NGO Network on Disabilities (JANNET), the CBR Asia-Pacific Network, and the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD). Our sincere appreciation also goes to the people who supported our efforts by demonstrating CBR, visiting, writing and/or giving advice, such as Mr. Naoya SUZUKI, Dr. Maya THOMAS, Mr. Yutaka TAKAMINE, and Mr. Makoto KONO. We would also like to thank the Nippon Foundation for their financial support.

It would give us great pleasure if many people could take time to read and make use of this collection as an invaluable resource.

End of March 2015
Shigeru SUMITANI
President, Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities
(Public Interest Incorporated Foundation)