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Better Practices in Rehabilitation in Africa: Learning collaboratively to change frontline practices
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Veröffentlicht: | 10. Juli 2012 |
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Purpose or Research Hypothesis: We present our learning from a multi-year Best Practices in Rehabilitation (BPR) project in Cameroon.
Relevance and context: Little work has been done on BPR in Africa. We describe several project phases including planning appropriate processes and establishing project goals, carrying out guideline development, and project evaluation.
Results, Findings, Description of Best practices: A participatory process was used to develop the project activities. Strategies to increase collaboration were used: recruiting local and international participants, meetings, working group processes, emails, and internet groups. Several guidelines have been developed.
Lessons and Conclusions: Successes – Revised processes have been developed. In-depth workshops improved levels of enthusiasm. Difficulties – Recruiting international members familiar with the specific context and with time to devote to the project. More adaptation and evaluation are required to develop effective guidelines in contexts with limited rehabilitation systems. Strategies developed in this project may be useful for others.