DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL BELGIUM – HI website

August 2002 – 3 year project

Objectives:

• CRHP physical therapy department provides quality treatment and mentoring.
• CRHP orthopedic workshop produces good quality appliances that respond to the needs.
• Walking and mobile aid workshop resumes its production and provides tricycles and walking aids of good quality.
• Links with existing community based networks are strengthened.
• CRHP general management improves.
• A platform of coordination exists between CRHP and other orthopedic centers in Kinshasa.

ETHIOPIA

VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION – VVAF website

January 2002 – 4 year project

Objectives:

• Build capacity and strengthen service provision of the Dessie Orthopedic Center.
• Improve accessibility to rehabilitation services in Bahir Dar.
• Increase the availability of wheelchairs in the region.
• Enhance Community Follow-up Unit (CFU) communication and coordination with NGO partners and local government.
• Improve access to social and economic opportunities.
• Facilitate expansion of networking among organizations of/for persons with disability.
• Advocate for greater public awareness on disability issues, improved policy dialogue, and increased opportunities for persons with disability.

SIERRA LEONE

HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL FRANCE – HI website

May 2003 – 3 year project

Objectives:

• Ensure the production, acceptability and affordability of prosthetics, orthotics, and rehabilitation services.
• Improve the accessibility of services generally and follow-up of persons in need of functional rehabilitation services.
• Develop the national competencies and skills in the field of prosthetics, orthotics and rehabilitation services through training.
• Strengthen the national capacities for the management, development, coordination, and supervision of the functional rehabilitation and prosthetics and orthotics centers and services.

CHRISTIAN AID FOR UNDER-ASSISTED SOCIETIES EVERYWHERE (CAUSE) – CAUSE website

April 2003 – 2 year project

Objectives:

• Support the socio-economic reintegration of amputees, war wounded and most vulnerable in Kono and Kailahun.
• Promote and support disabled sports and recreation in Sierra Leone.
• Carry-out advocacy and community sensitization on disability issues in areas where socio-economic activities are taking place.

SOUTH SUDAN

• Expand access for persons with disability to orthopedic and physical therapy services in Rumbek County and adjacent regions in South Sudan.
• Improve quality of orthopedic care for the disabled in southern Sudan through promotion of appropriate and supportive prosthetic technology.
• Optimize sustainability of the proposed interventions.
• Increase social and economic reintegration of civilian victims of war.

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