Promotion of Mobility and Assistive Devices

Implementing Partner: World Health Organization

Funding Period: September 2008 - September 2009

Amount: $339,000

Purpose: Promote the use of mobility and assistive devices in developing countries.

Objectives

• Support the efforts of member States, particularly those in Africa and the Middle East, to assist in providing people in need of mobility devices with access to such devices. To do so, the project will introduce into prosthetics and orthotics schools the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) training modules and the categorizations that ISPO has established to define professionals working in the prosthetics and orthotics field. The project will provide ongoing support to two schools (one in Africa and one in the Middle East) to use ISPO's categorizations and training modules.
• Follow up on recommendations from the Lower Limb Orthotics and Wheelchair Consensus conferences by working to develop a network and knowledge base in the field of assistive devices.
• Disseminate the guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs by organizations workshops and developing a training package on the guidelines.