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Programmes

Seven programmes and two cross-cutting areas, one method: develop a practical model with the community, test it, document it, and transfer it to the institutions that will sustain it.

A mother holds her young daughter close in a leafy garden
Girls walk alongside a classmate as she uses a mobility walker on a village road
Girls in school uniform listen closely during a lesson
Our approach

From community-based rehabilitation to inclusive development

DRRA began community-based rehabilitation in 1998 and, in 2018, reframed it as community-based inclusive development: inclusion in all community development. Programmes are designed with community-based organisations (CBOs) and work on two tracks, supporting the individual and changing mainstream services.

1

Identify

Community workers, self-help groups and mobile teams find children and adults who have never been assessed, and refer them.

2

Deliver

Therapy, devices, schooling and livelihood support close to home, often in village centres set up by the community.

3

Sustain

Organisations of persons with disabilities, mothers’ groups and partner NGOs take the work over.

Across our programmes

Programmes in action

A cross-section of the work: knowledge-sharing events, humanitarian response, climate and WASH activities, and community moments.

DRRA staff talk with students about disability inclusion at a school event
Engaging students on disability inclusion
A DRRA staff member talks with a young woman during a medicine distribution at Amorjoti Special School
Medicine distribution, Amorjoti Special School
A father receives medicine for his child at an outdoor distribution
Medicine distribution for children and families
A woman uses a raised hand pump for safe water in a flood-prone rural area
Safe water access in a climate-vulnerable community
Volunteers and a rescue team prepare a boat during a river safety exercise
Disaster-response coordination on the water
Children laugh and play with a ball outdoors
Play and inclusion, outside the classroom
Mothers and children celebrate together at a Mother's Day event
Community celebration on Mother's Day