Empowerment and CBR
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چکیده
Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) and empowerment are critical issues in contemporary discourse within both development studies and disability studies. These issues have long been fraught with controversy, yet there remains little understanding of how CBR and empowerment interrelate, not only within programmes but also in a normative sense. There is even less understanding of what the outcomes would be were Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), governments and the international development community to make empowerment a central tenet of practice in disability provision in developing countries.
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