{"id":1316,"date":"2022-11-03T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2022-11-03T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:04:15","slug":"report-on-inclusivity-of-persons-with-disability-in-nairobi-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/report-on-inclusivity-of-persons-with-disability-in-nairobi-county\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT ON INCLUSIVITY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY IN NAIROBI COUNTY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221103-WA0061-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221103-WA0061-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221103-WA0061-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221103-WA0061-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221103-WA0061-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221103-WA0061.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Njeri Irungu<br>report looking into if the status of the Built Environment in Nairobi is favourable for persons with disabilities has this afternoon been launched at a Nairobi hotel.<br>The report titled: Case Study Report on Inclusive Design and Accessibility of the Built Environment was made possible through data collections using various techniques to include: Face to face interviews, workshop and photo diaries with 15 stakeholders and persons with disabilities that are working and living in Nairobi.<br>The research was conducted in 6 countries across the world with 3 being in Asia, two in Africa and the other in South America.<br>Speaking during the launch, Executive Director of Kilimanjaro Blind Trust Africa Ms Suparna Biswas said &#8220;&#8221;During the data collection process we noticed that there is a disconnect between the policy and the actual Infrastructure within Nairobi and a lot of advocacy is required to change things\u201d<br>The suggestion for what may make Nairobi work were:inclusive infrastructure, security, inclusive housing, a rich urban life, access to opportunitiea especially for persons living with disabilities.<br>The study was conducted for the period between July 2021 and December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njeri Irungureport looking into if the status of the Built Environment in Nairobi is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}