Prevailing Practice and Perception on Managerial Aspects of Community Based Rehabilitation Projects in India

Abstract

The major change in strategy in rehabilitation for people with disabilities over the past few years has been the expansion of services in the community. This has slowly gathered the momentum and has developed
into a differentiated programme called ‘Community Based Rehabilitation’ (CBR). Ideally, a community based rehabilitation programme is built on an integrated and decentralized managerial approach, in which both the service providing agencies and the community have a role to play. A few aspects of management of community based rehabilitation were discussed in the research work of Shamrock, 2009; Evans et al., 2001; Andrew & Dominic 2004; Cheausuwantavee, 2005; Kuipers & Harknett, 2008; Andrew et al., 2009; Cornielje et al., etc.. Not much research work has been found addressing the issues and aspects related to the management of CBR directly and extensively. Hence present research has been taken up to study the community based rehabilitation implemented by various disability rehabilitation organizations, from managerial perspectives.
In the study, the efforts have been made to understand the CBR projects in the Indian context by studying the prevailing practices of Managerial Aspects of CBR and the perception of CBR managers on the effectiveness of these Managerial Aspects of CBR. The correlation between practices and perception has been studied by  making use of regression analysis. The important results of the study include the construction of an assessment tool to study the prevailing practice of Managerial Aspects of CBR and the perception of CBR managers on the effectiveness of Managerial Aspects of CBR and the regression equation to predict the prevailing practice of Managerial Aspects of CBR based on the perception score of CBR managers. The study also highlights the relevance of managerial aspects of CBR in Indian context.