Perceptions on contribution of women CDMD

Promoting inclusive communities and perceptions
about the contribution of women and girls make in
the community
Presented by Chan Dara
Email: chan.dara@cdmdcambodia.org
Mobile phone: +855 - (0)92 609 108
Venue: Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh
Date: 17th – 18th November 2015
Purpose of this presentation
To share the best practice of gender
inclusion in CBR program. It ensures
women and girls are active
participants in implementation not
only provides opportunities to
improve self-confidence, but also
challenges community perceptions
about the contributions that women
and girls can make in the
community.
Introduction to CDMD
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CDMD – Cambodian Development Mission for Disability was
registered as a Cambodian NGO in 2007.
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CDMD is formerly called Rehabilitation for Blind Cambodians –
Community Based Rehabilitation (RBC-CBR) started in 1993
by Maryknoll with CBM partnership.
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In 2000 CBR was handover to Caritas Cambodia to administer
this program until end 2006.
Current CDMD’s Projects & Target areas
1. Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
2. Disability Inclusive Community (DIC)
3. Social care and Inclusive Education for Children
with disabilities
4. Daycare Centre
- Target areas: Phnom Penh, Kandal, Takeo, Kampot,
Kampong Speu, & Prey Veng province
- CDMD staff: 38 (F: 14) or equal 37% are female
Target areas
WHO CBR Matrix
“The major strength of CDMD’s CBR services is that it is one of the few programs to address all components of
the WHO CBR matrix.........” Source:
Dr. Manjula Marrela, CDMD’s CBR Evaluation, Centre for Eye Research Australia 2010 and Dr. Maya Thomas,
Evaluation of CDMD Programme, India 2012
CBR Services
• Coordinate health care service including eye,
ear, mental, harelip and cleft palate, burn, etc.
• Coordinate and provide rehabilitation service
• Coordinate school integration to special school,
integrated school, and regular school.
• Disability awareness raising to community and
public
• Coordinate and provide loan or grant to clients
to start livelihood activities
• Self-help group formation of PwDs with all kind
of disabilities and networking SHGs & SHGs
CDMD’s strategy and Purpose
• CDMD intends to promote equal rights and opportunities for
men and women in all areas of CDMD’s work to further
contribute to the sustainable social development.
• CDMD is committed to provide opportunities for women and
girls in all areas of the organization to a minimum of forty
per cent (40%) by 2020.
Gender analysis
• In the Cambodian context:
– Women have limited access to services & control of resources
– Women’s experience of poverty is different from men; it is more
severe and more prevalent
– Women are mostly acting as housewives & taking care the families
– Women with disabilities are risky to all forms of violence at their
home, community, & institutions
– Women with disabilities are more vulnerable and have less
opportunity than women without disabilities
– Women with disabilities have low confidence in themselves in
speaking, doing, participating in all forms of events in the society
Gender analysis
– Men plays important role in making money to
support family, less vulnerable to any form of
abuses or any risk than women.
– Men have opportunity to study longer than women
– Men have more social experience than women,
– Men plays important role in decisions making at
family/community/political level
– More men works at the government and private
levels and are holding high ranking positions than
women.
Gender Strategy Objectives 2013 - 2017
• This strategy is intended to provide inclusive
communities where women, men, boys and girls
with disabilities enjoy and exercise their rights
and are empowered and enabled to participate in
community life.
• Three objectives of gender strategy are:
– Involve men & women in decision making process,
policy & procedures development of CDMD
– Involve men & women participating in CDMD
program design, implementation & evaluation
– Strengthen capacity of men & women of CDMD
staff and partners through conference, training,
workshop, meeting and exposure visit.
Some key achievements
• Involved 10 advocates which was 50% female to lobby local
authorities and services providers for disability inclusion.
• Involved 128 community volunteers which was 38% female to
raise disability awareness, identify clients for services referral.
• Actual direct beneficiaries 14,243 clients which was 47%
female (Annual beneficiaries’ statistics 2014).
• Established 145 Self-help Groups with 1,537 members which
was 40% female (CDMD-CBR Project Evaluation 2014).
Some Challenges
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Lack of effective and available health care
effects of disease
can worsen the
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Negative attitude ( Social barriers and bringing excluded people,
such as women and girls with disability ).
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Lack of mechanism and commitment to disability inclusive by
GOs, NGOs, Donors, etc.
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Lack of cooperation and collaboration amongst relevant
stakeholders
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Reflecting rights based approaches in activity implementation
 Making the most of the skills of people with disabilities
Implementation Plan
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Gender training for CDMD staffs & partners and ensure gender issues are
included in the agendas to encourage fully involvement of girls and women
with disabilities in their plan and implementation
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Support adaption home surrounding environment for both men & women with
disabilities to perform household tasks independently such as cooking,
washing, & cleaning, etc.
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Support women with disabilities to take leadership role in Self-help Groups,
and Networks
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Support girls with disabilities to enrol in school and access to services
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Prioritize female candidates for new staff recruitment and training opportunity
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Segregate male & female in project plan indicators & achievement statistics
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Collaborate with GOs & NGOs to ensure services availability for gender equity
promotion.