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The moment is right for CBR to assume its role as a promising disability-inclusive strategy for the implementation of the CRPD and the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, for low- and medium-resource countries.
CBR will be strengthened by its clear focus on disability-inclusive development, involving a range of sectors and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders.
In particular, the time is right for all United Nations agencies to collaborate in support of CBR activities, and to take ownership of CBR. This will require a formal recognition of what has been CBR practice almost from its inception, namely that CBR is not merely a “rehabilitation strategy”, but extends in its objectives and activities far beyond this.
Understanding CBR – or perhaps more accurately, community-based inclusion or CBI – as a disability-inclusive development strategy will help to forge productive collaborative relationships among all relevant stakeholders. United Nations agencies will appreciate the need to support CBI’s inclusive development agenda; governments will see the need to align their support across all relevant ministries and sectors; and nongovernmental organizations will be able to clarify their role, among other stakeholders, in community-based inclusive development.
