Social protection schemes aim at ensuring that individuals covered by such schemes enjoy a minimum standard of living. Social protection schemes can be broadly divided into official (government and large organizations) and informal (arrangements made in the community or family).
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Official schemes
Official social assistance programmes may be aimed at poor and vulnerable people in general through poverty alleviation or reduction schemes, or specifically at people with disabilities.
Programme types include:
Poverty alleviation and poverty reduction schemes Examples of poverty alleviation and poverty reduction schemes, which are often run by governments or large organizations, are food support, low-cost housing assistance and conditional cash transfer schemes
Social assistance schemes Social assistance schemes are basic relief given to those who cannot earn a living in the open market. They include unemployment assistance, disability benefits, and pensions
Employee and worker compensation schemes These schemes may be available for employees who acquire a disability as a result of an accident at work or a work-related illness. These are often funded through compulsory social insurance.
Learn about India’s “People with Disabilities Act” and how it is benefiting individuals with disabilities.
CBR in Action
The Association d’Entraide des Femmes (ASSEF) ) is a microfinance cooperative in Benin to provide services to low-income women in the capital and its surrounding areas.
Its health microinsurance has benefits for patients which can be accessed at contracted health-care providers, with a co-payment required for all services.
Informal schemes
Many people rely on informal solutions to survive the loss of work, illness, disability and old age. These informal solutions include:
Individual or family support In many places the family is the primary means of support throughout life.
Community support groups or associationsCharitable groups, religious and community-based organizations may give either occasional or systematic help to vulnerable people, including people with disabilities. They may assist with the purchase of wheelchairs and other assistive devices, and are potential allies and useful resources for CBR.
Self-help groups Self-help groups set up to save money and provide other types of mutual support are an effective form of social protection available to people with disabilities in communities.
Micro insurance schemes In the absence of official social security schemes, many communities in have organized microinsurance schemes to cater to their need for security and access to social services and to manage risks. These voluntary schemes can be organized by trade unions, municipalities, private insurance companies, microfinance institutions, health service providers.
Learn how health microinsurance is being provided to low-income women in Benin.
CBR in Action
The Association d’Entraide des Femmes (ASSEF) ) is a microfinance cooperative in Benin to provide services to low-income women in the capital and its surrounding areas.
Its health microinsurance has benefits for patients which can be accessed at contracted health-care providers, with a co-payment required for all services.
Challenges of providing social protection
Whatever form of social protection is considered, controversial issues remain such as:
Who should be protected and how?
Who is disabled?
Who should be eligible to receive special social protection?
What is the difference between rights and charity in this context?
Is social protection compatible with the ideal of non-dependency?
CBR has a responsibility to engage with these issues and influence outcomes. Along with DPOs, CBR needs to act as catalysts, informant and advocates.
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This is the Module library page. It is the first thing you will see after you register and log into INCLUDE.
From here, you can choose to view nine different learning modules, each of which examines a different aspect of Community-Based Rehabilitation.
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Each time you make a selection from the Module library, you will enter a learning module (in this case the Health module) that you can interact with in a number of ways.
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You will have a number of opportunities to reflect on your thoughts, feelings and experiences related to CBR, as well as on what you have learned so far. If you want, you can choose to share your reflections with other members of the INCLUDE community.
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Note that when you are inside a learning module, you use the Continue and Back buttons at the bottom of the screen to move ahead to the next page, or go back to the previous page.
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You can also choose to jump directly to a different part of the current module by making a selection from the menu on the left side of the screen.
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In each learning module, you will also have the opportunity to respond to poll questions and learn what others in the INCLUDE community are thinking about CBR.
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You can also review numerous real-life examples of how others are successfully implementing CBR around the world.
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And you can create an action plan to help you:
•Better understand the needs of your programme, and
•Take specific, concrete steps to address them
As with reflections, if you want, you can also choose to share your action plan with other members of the community.
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Additional resources are available any time you want to access them, frrom the menu at the top of every screen.
From the Reflect option on this menu, you can:
•Review all of the reflections you have entered so far, or
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Under Action Plan, you can:
•Work on your own action plan, or
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You can also view the full library of real-life examples of CBR in action from this menu.
If you want to locate the examples that are most relevant to your work, you can filter these examples by subject and region, as well as by the gender and age(s) of the population being served.
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In the Community section you can:
•Participate in conversations (discussions) with other members of the INCLUDE community
•View the results of every poll question included in the course
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Finally, you can view a set of additional resources related to CBR in the Resource library.
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Finally, you can view a set of additional resources related to CBR in the Resource library.
