Achieving full participation through universal design The Norwegian

Achieving full participation through universal design The Norwegian government’s action plan for universal design and increased accessibility 2009 -2013. Dublin, Ireland, 1. October 2009

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Sustainable economic and social development • The Government will pursue an economic policy that promotes value creation and combats unemployment and exclusion from society and working life. • The Government will seek to ensure that products and the physical environment are as far as possible developed according to the principles of universal design. • Universal design also involves redesigning workplaces to take account of people with disabilities, and this will reduce their exclusion from working life as measured by Indicator 17. – 3 Sustainability indicator 17 is Long-term unemployed persons and disability pensioners as a percentage of the age group 18 -66 years

Laws and regulations supporting the implementation of universal design Anti-Discrimination and Accessibility Act ICT (web, ticket machines, cash dispensers etc) Building and planning (buildings, outdoor areas etc. ) Education (buildings, learning environment) Transportation (trains, busses, ships, infrastructure etc) Public procurement All goods purchased by the public sector Act relating to councils for people with disabilities in local authorities and county councils Activities and policies in municipalities and counties 4

Vision: Norway universally designed by 2025 • • 5 Prioritised areas: – Outdoor areas/planning, buildings, transport and ICT. – Sector-overarching measures: activities in municipalities, national indicators og standards, communication policy, children and young people Number of measures: – 2009: ca 150 Total budget, all ministries: – Unknown (exceeds NOK 200 mill. /€ 22, 7 mill in 2009) Participating ministries: – 16 Period: 5 years (2009 -2013) – Will be reviewed each year. Political anchoring: – The Government – Follow-up: Parliamentary Secretary Committee on the overall policy for people with disabilities. Participation – Reference group (NGOs, research institutes etc. ) Coordination responsibility – The Ministry of Children and Equality

Strategy • • 6 Strengthen the sector responsibility principle – The individual ministry is to review its area of responsibility and assess the need for additional deadlines and specific measures Support the use of legal instruments – The Anti-Discrimination and Accessibility Act, The Planning and Building Act, The Public Procurement act, etc. – New laws and regulations Strengthen the use of non-legal instruments – Public market powers, administrative powers, management of the departments. – Standardisation – Research – Economic instruments Increased contribution and cooperation – The Ministries, The Norwegian State Council on Disability, The National Council for Senior Citizens, The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, NGOs

Measures: Planning and outdoor areas • National development project in county councils and local authorities. – Urban and regional planning (The Ministry of the Environment) 7 http: //www. universell-utforming. miljo. no/

Measures: Transport • The National Transport Plan 20102019. – Measures to develop universal design in all sectors of transport and infrastucture. (The Ministry of Transport and Communications) Total budget universal design 2010 -2019: NOK 4, 47 billion/€ 0, 51 billion. 8

National indicator system to assess the development of universal design. • • Planning and outdoor areas – County and municipality plans (Statistics Norway) – Parks and open air areas (Statistics Norway) – Urban centres (Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. Pending) Buildings – All buildings including dwellings (Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. Pending) Transportation – Terminals and busstops (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) – Other indicators for transportation pending. ICT – Public websites (The Agency for Public Management and e. Government ) – Other indicators for ICT pending. A comprehensive plan for indicators to be presented in 2009 9

Universal design – clarification • Limiting the scope – The use in laws – The use in regulations – Standardisation • Expanding the scope – Innovation – Interdisciplinary developement 10 http: //www. universell-utforming. miljo. no/

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