Beyond Rehabilitation: A Multi-Stakeholder Framework for Community-Based Inclusive Development in the Philippines

18.11.2026
Online

About the session

Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) has grown from a health-centered strategy into a rights-based approach to disability inclusion. Yet in the Philippines, persons with disabilities still face fragmented services, limited accessibility and barriers to education, employment and community life.

Dr. Adorable presents a proposed framework for moving from CBR to Community-Based Inclusive Development (CBID), where rehabilitation becomes part of wider community development. It brings together the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation (RAFI), Southwestern University PHINMA, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine, local governments and organizations of persons with disabilities, around three pillars:

• Inspiring Actions - awareness, local policy, disability registries and self-help groups
• Enabling Communities - training health workers, local leaders, volunteers and persons with disabilities
• Taking Actions, Creating Impact - access to rehabilitation, assistive technology, psychosocial support and referrals

What you will take away

This session speaks to Article 26 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which calls for rehabilitation that supports inclusion, as close as possible to people's own communities, and to Article 19 on living independently and being included in the community.

• Why the shift from CBR to CBID matters, and what changes in practice
• How a foundation, a university, a hospital, local government and organizations of persons with disabilities share roles in one program
• The roles rehabilitation specialists can take beyond clinical care

Time: 14:00 to 16:00 hours

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