CBR NETWORK (SOUTH ASIA)

CBR Network (South Asia) is an international NGO working towards networking of all NGOs active in the field of Community Based Rehabilitation and Education of Persons with Disabilities, Women and Rural Development. With its regional office in Bangalore, in India, the Network is spread over Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country. At the international level, the Network is linked with Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. Since its inception in 1993, CBR Network is very active in accomplishing the snowballing effect through Dissemination of Information, Technical support, Training, Planning and Management of CBR Programmes, Research and Publications.

CBR Network has a vision of Empowerment of differently abled persons through Community Based Rehabilitation leading to mainstream inclusion. CBR Network carries out its Mission of Networking, sharing, and optimizing of knowledge, skills, practices and inherent strengths in differently abled persons, their families and organizations, communities, NGOs, and Government in the South Asian region so as to enable equal participation and protection of human rights of differently abled persons, women and senior citizens in all developmental programmes.

CBR Network uses Community Based Rehabilitation as a strategy to approach the community and the government for the rehabilitation and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all developmental programmes and protection of their human rights. The main thrust is given to ECCD (Early Childhood Care and Development), Inclusive Education of Children with Disabilities in mainstream schools, Human Resource Development for rehabilitation activities through training, transfer of technology and skills, advocacy to influence public policies, research and publications. CBR Network has been a consultant agency to UNDP, SIDA, Action Aid, NORAD, UNICEF, UNESCO and NCERT. It has implemented World Bank assisted project Udhisha Portage, a large-scale early childhood inclusive education programme. Bangalore University has entered into a Letter of Understanding with CBR Network for technical cooperation to conduct the programmes in Community Based Rehabilitation.

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