Participatory monitoring of community-based rehabilitation and other disability-inclusive development programmes: The development of a manual and menu

Madden, Rosamond H., Lukersmith, Sue, Millington, Michael J., Scarf, Charlotte, Fortune, Nicola, Hartley, Sally and Llewellyn, Gwynnyth (2016) Participatory monitoring of community-based rehabilitation and other disability-inclusive development programmes: The development of a manual and menu. Disability, CBR and Inclusive Development, 26 (4). pp. 26-52. ISSN 2211-5242

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Abstract

Purpose: This paper describes a three-year research project leading to the development of the CBR Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM&M). The MM&M is a practical toolkit that meets the needs of CBR managers and stakeholders, and is consistent with the philosophy of CBR and community-based disability-inclusive development. It is designed to produce meaningful and locally useful information and data, based on international data standards where possible, to enable aggregation at regional, national and international levels. Methods: Five complementary workstreams of research were carried out from 2011 to 2014: 1) literature review and analysis; 2) participatory action research with CBR stakeholders; 3) analysis and refinement of validity of concepts and structures; 4) consultation and review; and 5) synthesis of results. This article documents the method and key results of each of the five workstreams, and the lessons learned along the way. Results: The MM&M is now freely available on-line at http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/cdrp/projects/cbr-monitoring.shtml. Collaboration among members of the development team continues, chiefly via an on-line group to which new members have been welcomed. Conclusion and Implications: At the time of writing, the MM&M is the only international monitoring product, known to the authors, that consciously sets out to reflect both a ‘bottom- up’ and ‘top-down’ perspective of monitoring information and data. To achieve this for a complex programme such as CBR, and to align with its principles, it was essential to use a multi-component and multi-stage strategy for tool development, involving a diverse multidisciplinary team includingcollaboration with CBR stakeholders.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Uncontrolled Keywords: monitoring methods,monitoring tool,evaluation,international classification of functioning,disability and health (icf)
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 Mar 2016 23:06
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 17:29
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57604
DOI: 10.5463/DCID.v26i4.472

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