An audit reaches beyond ramps
Recommendations included Braille signs, tactile paving, audible lift signals, clearer signs and handrails on both sides of stairs. Xaykia also highlighted wheelchair access to the UN Clinic. She wrote that “we must look at how we can change ourselves” to advance inclusion. [1]
Employment enters the wider rights programme
UNDP’s related disability-rights project included plans for a study of inclusive employment and workplaces. It also aimed to strengthen organisations of persons with disabilities and their participation in public decisions, connecting the everyday experience of work with national implementation of disability rights.
A grant call follows in 2023
On 18 April 2023, UNDP opened a call for national non-profit organisations of persons with disabilities. A grant of up to US$12,000 was available to strengthen knowledge, capacity and implementation of the disability-rights convention and domestic policies. The application deadline was 12 May 2023.