CBR and the CRPD
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Because of its broadly inclusive development focus, CBR should no longer be seen as merely a strategy for providing rehabilitation services (although CBR workers certainly are engaged in that essential activity as well). This means that CBR can also be a strategy for implementing the disability-inclusive focus of the CRPD. Although only the national government has a duty to implement the CRPD, CBR can nonetheless further this aim in the following ways.
- Familiarizing people with the CRPD – by actively promoting the Convention and helping people to understand its reach and significance.
- Collaborating with stakeholders – and working with local government, national and nongovernmental organizations (especially disabled people’s organizations and local government) to seek ways of assisting the State in its obligation to implement the provisions of the CRPD.
- Coordinating between local and national levels – by promoting and supporting dialogue between local and national levels of government, and strengthening local groups and disabled people’s organizations so they can play a significant role at local and national levels towards implementation of the CRPD.
- Helping to draw up and monitor local action plans – that include concrete actions and resource planning necessary to incorporate disability issues into local public policies and achieve intersectoral collaboration.
- Advocacy – engaging in advocacy activities that aim to develop or strengthen inclusive national and local policies relating to the health, education, employment, social services and other sectors, consistent with the provisions of the CRPD.
