The Digital Guide on ‘Inclusive, Accessible, Safe and Resilient Urban Development’ is an interactive toolkit developed as a ready-reckoner for urban practitioners on inclusive design and accessibility needs of marginalized and vulnerable communities particularly, persons with disabilities, women and children, pregnant women and new mothers, people with chronic conditions, ageing population, and LGBTQI+ in urban design and practice.
The Digital Guide works as an integrated toolkit for the development of an inclusive urban environment covering various aspects of an infrastructure project in the following four sections: 1) Project Cycle, 2) Sector-Specific Guidelines, 3) Monitoring and Evaluation (Audit Toolkit), and 4) Inclusive Resilience Strategies. Each section provides a basic understanding and the minimum required standards and technicalities to be adopted by the practitioners in the form of simplified checklists with isometric sketches highlighting the basic minimum criteria for accessibility and inclusion. The Digital Guide aims to support urban practitioners embed the principles of Universal Design and Inclusive Planning to ensure a Gender-sensitive and Disability-inclusive urban development in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly Goal 11, Target 11.7, and the fulfilment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act 2016 and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Link to the Digital Guide: https://niua.in/NIUA_UN_Toolkit/
For further compliance, please refer to the relevant statutory documents of the Government of India including the National Building Code 2016, and the Harmonized Guidelines and Space Standards for Universal Accessibility in India 2021.
