GUIDELINES AND TOOLKIT TO PROMOTEFULLY ACCESSIBLE SCHOOLS

INNOVATIVE PRACTICE 2015: INDIAZERO PROJECT CONFERENCEZERO PROJECT CONFERENCE

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ANJLEE AGARWAL

Executive Director & Access ConsultantExecutive Director & Access Consultant

Presentation ContentPresentation Content

• Introduction • Facts & Figures• Facts & Figures• Problems Targetedg• Solution & Methodology

O tl k &T f bilit• Outlook &Transferability• Recommendations

IntroductionIntroduction

C h i d i d i l t ti• Comprehensive design and implementation guidelines and toolkit to create safe, equal,

d ibl l i i t fand accessible learning environments for children with disabilities.

• Use of Indian national codes, space standards and universal design principles.

• Infrastructural recommendations • Curriculum and classroom materials in accessible formats, e-learning technology solutions, etc.,

Facts & FiguresFacts & Figures

• Access audits - 500 schools in 16 states from 2011-2014.

• More than 430 state coordinators and block resources persons received technical ptraining in three states from 2014-2015.

•12,000 guidelines copies disseminated , g p• 72 schools in four states renovated into model accessible and inclusive schools inmodel accessible and inclusive schools in 2014–2015.

Problems TargetedProblems Targeted

Despite initiatives by the Ministry of Human Resource Development:Human Resource Development: •Enrolment of children with disabilities less than 1% of all school-aged children inthan 1% of all school aged children in India.

•Girls with disabilities less likely to attend•Girls with disabilities less likely to attend and complete school, particularly in rural settings due to no accessible toiletssettings, due to no accessible toilets.

•Considerable distance to school makes girls more vulnerable to abusegirls more vulnerable to abuse.

Gender ParityGender Parity

• Non-disabled children (0 94) 2013-14Non disabled children (0.94), 2013 1494 girls to 100 boys

Child i h di bili i (0 ) 2012 13• Children with disabilities (0.77), 2012-1377 girls to 100 boysg y

DISE Data, India

Solution & MethodologySolution & Methodology

Guidelines and Toolkit:• Promote access equity safety and• Promote access, equity, safety, and gender-neutral learning environments. R h b d i f ti• Research based information.

• School access audits (rural and urban (settings).

• Trainings and user group inputs• Trainings and user group inputs.

Universal AccessibilityUniversal Accessibility

Design for Diversity in School and Learning Spaces

HighlightsHighlights

• Common barriers experienced by children in terms of the physicalchildren in terms of the physical infrastructure of schools.

• Provide cost effective solutions to• Provide cost-effective solutions to overcome them.

• Essential and non-negotiable universal design elements to facilitate site-gspecific solutions.

Insensitivity of supervisors and mason

Absence of handrails increase dependency on others

Access to drinking water ?

Inaccessible ToiletsInaccessible Toilets

Lack of Access FeaturesHigh steps and no ramp to the toilet

Design SolutionsDesign Solutions• Fully accessible andFully accessible and functional girls toilets

• Door and roofDoor and roof mandatory

• Menstruation Hygiene• Menstruation Hygiene Management•Piped/running water•Piped/running water•Safe disposal of

it dsanitary pads

Accessible toilet with ramp WC and piped water facilityAccessible toilet with ramp, WC and piped water facility

Squatting toilet design for rural areas

Squatting accessible

Disability SimulationDisability Simulation

Schools should be for All: Leave No One Behind in Education and Learning

Outlook &TransferabilityOutlook &Transferability

These tools have a global reach:• These tools have a global reach: • Toolkit on Accessibility and Universal Design, an advocacy tool to guide UNICEF and governmentadvocacy tool to guide UNICEF and government staff on raising awareness on disability and human rights approaches to disabilityg pp y

• Enforce the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• Accessibility standards easily adopted in cost-effective ways

• Use of indigenous materials (and middle income countries) during emergency responses, and in long term development contextslong-term development contexts

Anjlee AgarwalAnjlee AgarwalSamarthyam, National Centre for Accessible Environments IndiaEnvironments, IndiaEmail: samarthyamindia@gmail.comW b it thWebsite: www.samarthyam.com

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