Integrating Disability into Development in Eastern Indonesia: a Case Study in Theory versus Reality

Authors

  • Laine Berman Monash Asia Institute

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/hcs.2011.47

Keywords:

children, disability, Community Based Rehabilitation, Eastern Indonesia, community development

Abstract

This paper looks at patterns of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) in two rural, isolated regions of Flores, Eastern Indonesia. It examines methods adapted by local NGOs to integrate children with disabilities (CWD) into the community as it also examines the major constraints that ensure CBR as an approach is far from being realized. While the paper argues for the necessity of a stronger guideline in defining disability and a more gendered focus in research and practice, it also shows how the various methods embraced by the donor agency (as well as the local implementing NGOs) raise many questions that need to be better understood for future disability activities in rural, low income communities.

Author Biography

Laine Berman, Monash Asia Institute

Laine Berman, PhD, is Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash Asia Institute. She lives in Indonesia where she has been researching and evaluating development projects since 1991.

 

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Published

2011-10-11

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Vol 1, No 1 (2011): PERSPECTIVES

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