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Guidelines for preparation of a review paper
BMF TARGET IMPLEMENTATION ASSESSMENT SHEET
- Your name and organization, nature of organization (Government, NGO,
Independent Organization)
- Information regarding the implementation of BMF target 13 to 20.
Please use the following questions as points of reference
Target 13
Governments should adopt and enforce accessibility standards for
planning of public facilities, infrastructure and transport, including
those in rural/agricultural contexts.
Questions
- Does your Government have any legal basis for accessibility standards?
If yes, please describe them (name, year of the establishment, how does it
help for persons with disabilities, what are the impacts etc.). If no,
then, have there been any measures taken towards the achievement of the
target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 14
All new and renovated public transport systems, including road, water,
light and heavy mass railway and air transport systems, should be made
fully accessible by persons with disabilities and older persons; existing
land, water and air transport systems (vehicles, stops and terminals)
should be made accessible and usable as soon as practicable.
Questions
- Does your Government have any policy to enhance the full accessibility
to public transportation system for persons with disabilities and older
persons? If yes, please describe them (name, year of the establishment,
what are the impacts etc.). If no, then, have there been any measures
taken towards the achievement of the target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 15
All international and regional funding agencies for infrastructure
development should include universal design concepts in their loan/grant
award criteria.
Questions
- Do you know of any international and regional funding agencies which
have any policy for the adoption of universal design concepts for
infrastructure development? If yes, please briefly describe them. If no,
the, has there been any measures taken towards the achievement of the
target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 16
By 2005, persons with disabilities should have at least the same rate
of access to the Internet and related services as the rest of citizens in
a country of the region.
Questions
- Does your country have any data on Internet access rate? If so, please
describe them (rate, source and year of data etc.,). Are there any data on
disabled persons access to the Internet? If so please also describe? If
no, the, has there been any measures taken to improve disabled persons
access to the Internet?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 17
International organization (e.g., International Telecommunication
Union, International Organization for Standardization, World Trade
Organization, World Wide Web Consortium, Motion Picture Engineering Group)
responsible for international ICT Standards should, by 2004, incorporate
accessibility standards for persons with disabilities in their
international ICT standards.
Questions
- Does your Government have any policy to attain the accessibility to
ICT for persons with disabilities? If yes, please describe them (name or
legal basis, year of the establishment, what are the impacts, how do the
domestic ICT standards incorporate with the International one, etc.). If
no, then, have there been any measures taken towards the achievement of
the target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 18
Governments should adopt, by 2005, ICT accessibility guidelines for
persons with disabilities in their national ICT policies and specifically
include persons with disabilities as their target beneficiary group with
appropriate measures.
Questions
- Does your Government adopt the national ICT accessibility guideline
for persons with disabilities? If yes, please describe them (name, year of
the establishment, what are the impacts etc.). If no, the, has there been
any measures taken towards the achievement of the target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 19
Governments should develop and coordinate a standardized sign language,
finger Braille, tactile sign language, in each country and to disseminate
and teach the results through all means, i.e. publication, CD-ROMs, etc.
Questions
- Does your Government have the national standard sign language, finger
Braille, tactile sign language and so forth. If yes, please describe them
(year of the establishment, how to disseminate to the relevant persons,
etc.). If no, the, has there been any measures taken towards the
achievement of the target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
Target 20
Governments should establish a system in each country to train and
dispatch sign language interpreters, Braille transcribers, finger Braille
interpreters, and human readers and to encourage their employment.
Questions
- Does your Government have any policy or system to achieve this target?
If yes, please describe them. If no, the, has there been any measures
taken towards the achievement of the target?
- Please give good practices in your country, relevant to this target.
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