WHO supports Member States of the Region to strengthen their capacity to generate information, evidence and knowledge, disseminate health-related literature, share and use evidence for policy and public health action.

Rehabilitation is a set of measures that assist an individual who experience, or are likely to experience, disability to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in interaction with their environments. It provides disabled people with the tools they need to attain independence and self-determination.

It encompasses a board spectrum of goals that includes the prevention of loss of function; slowing the rate of loss of function; improvement or restoration of function; compensation for loss of function; maintenance of current function.