At launch of Int’l Day of Persons with Disabilities: Minister unveils blueprint for community-based rehabilitation for inclusive dev’t.

The blueprint was unveiled during a ceremony in Yaounde marking the launch of this year’s edition of the International Day of Disabled Persons. 

The event organised November 27, was attended by the Secretary of State to the Minister of Basic Education, Acheri Kilo, and the Country Director of government’s development partner, FAIRMED, Mou Ferdinand.  

The document is titled: “National Strategy Document on Community-Based Rehabilitation for Inclusive Development in Cameroon 2024-2029”.

While unveiling the document, the minister said the national strategy document aims to improve the CBR services offered to people with disabilities in order to restore their dignity.

She said it is also aimed at bringing out their potential and encourage their full participation in all aspects of community life, thereby improving their living conditions and those of their families.

The easy-to-read document was drawn up in view of decentralising intervention and capitalising on the opportunities offered by the community. 

Highlighting how strategic the document is, the minister mentioned that it makes it possible to harmonise, at national level, the response of CBR actors to the multiple needs of people with disabilities in terms of health, education, means of subsistence, or even empowerment, in a coherent framework.

“This document strengthens the legal and institutional framework for the protection and promotion of people with disabilities. In fact, any social worker will find in it the path to follow, the procedural errors to avoid, the principles not to violate, the priority activities to carry out, and so on,” she said.

The member of government insisted that the fundamental objective of the strategy document is to contribute to the empowerment, via the socio-economic integration of people with disabilities within their community.