Accessible Infrastructure is about ensuring that all public infrastructure is accessible and appropriate to all disabled people. It goes beyond mobility and physical access and acknowledges the full gamut of disability including intellectual, learning, and psychiatric disabilities and other impairments. The principle of universal design informs accessible infrastructure.
Universal design is the design of products and [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Emergencies disproportionately place people with disabilities (PwDs) in vulnerable situations, and can create an insecure environment resulting in new disabilities. During emergency responses, PwDs are often invisible and excluded from accessing emergency support and essential services, such as medical care and water and sanitation facilities (WATSAN). Environmental, societal and attitudinal barriers, result in PwDs needs [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
“Mainstreaming disability into development cooperation is the process of assessing the implications for disabled people of any planned action, including legislation, policies and programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making disabled people’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
“Poor people are disproportionately disabled, and people with disabilities are disproportionately poor”
Robert Holzmann, Director of World Bank’s Social Protection Department, 2001.
Disability and poverty reinforce one another – intensifying marginalization and insecurity for PwDs. PwDs are among the poorest of the poor, while people living in poverty are more at risk than others to become disabled. [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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