The Effect of Community Based Rehabilitation Services on Livelihood Enhancement among People with Disabilities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Keywords:
Community-based rehabilitation, livelihood enhancement, skills development, self-employment, financial services, people with disabilitiesAbstract
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services on livelihood enhancement among people with disabilities (PWDs) in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It adopts descriptive research design. The social model of disability, which sees CBR programmes as a social-action process which empowers PWDs socially, economically, politically, among others is adopted as the theoretical framework. A comprehensive research hypothesis is formulated to guide the study. The population of this study is limited to those persons with physical disabilities who have benefitted from CBR intervention services in Akwa Ibom State. This cuts across beneficiaries from the three senatorial districts of Uyo, Eket and Ikot Ekpene. A total of 811 PWDs constitutes the population. A sample of 483 respondents is drawn from the population using Taro Yamane's formula. The instrument for data collection is structured questionnaire designed with a four point likert scale of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly
disagree. Data from the questionnaire retrieved from PWDs are computed and analysed using frequency counts and simple percentage. Spearman's rank-order correlation technique is used to test the hypothesis. The findings reveal among other things that CBR has significant effect on livelihood enhancement among PWDs in Akwa Ibom State.
