Australian Government support Strengthens Physical Rehabilitation Services in Cambodia

Through the Australia-Cambodia Cooperation for Equitable Sustainable Services, Phase 2, known as ‘Access 2’, the Australian Government is working with local partners in Cambodia to enhance the quality and coordination of services for persons with disabilities and survivors of gender-based violence.

Access 2 includes a partnership with Exceed Worldwide to support physical rehabilitation services and prosthetic and orthotic education. This programme supports the strengthening of rehabilitation services within the Ministry of Health, to ensure persons with mobility disabilities can access the prosthetic and orthotic services they need.

Developments include the establishment of a state-of-the-art Central Fabrication Unit in Phnom Penh to manufacture high-quality assistive devices and carry out device repairs at the request of professionally qualified prosthetic and orthotic clinicians based in hospitals across Cambodia…

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P&O professionals trained by Exceed have supported 3 million people with disabilities across 30 lower income countries.

Losing mobility, through limb loss or other reasons, can have devastating social and economic impacts, dramatically limiting access to work, social interaction, livelihood and independence. In poorly resourced countries, treatment and support services are not available to the vast majority of those who need them and these challenges are amplified.

The Exceed organisation has worked in Southeast Asia since 1989, to support people with disabilities, restore mobility and enable dependents to become independent contributors to society by:

Equipping – our NGO, Exceed Worldwide, trains local Prosthetic and Orthotic (P&O) professionals to provide high quality services.

Enabling – Exceed Worldwide provides accessible services for the most disadvantaged and supports people with disabilities in their communities to access education, training, employment or self-employment.

Empowering – advocating for disability rights and using research by the Exceed Research Network to find innovative ways to increase access to sustainable P&O services based on patients’ preferences and choices.

Research & innovation - comes from listening to patients and the P&O workforce and being aware of wider social and economic trends. Feedback from research has led to the launch of Exceed Social Enterprises and public private partnerships, which offers P&O patients choice and creates sustainable funding streams to support service provision for the most disadvantaged and increase access to services for all.

In countries where 90% of those who need P&O support cannot access services, the future is about new thinking and innovation. A growing P&O sector will come from a developing mix of philanthropic, private and public services and partnerships and Exceed is leading the way.