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The vast majority of public buildings in Ukraine are not accessible to low mobility groups but this situation will change in the next few years. Thus by 2030 public buildings across the country should gradually become barrier-free and meet global accessibility standards. Such ambitious goals are envisaged in the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy for Barrier-Free Development developed within the initiative of First Lady Olena Zelenska.The large-scale action plan of the National Barrier-Free Strategy for 2021-2022 has been agreed. It contains more than 250 proposals to be implemented by the end of next year. Each of the ministries presented initiatives within their areas of responsibility. The Ministry of Regional Development has identified five main areas of work for the next two years within the framework of achieving physical accessibility - from improving DBNs to monitoring compliance with building codes and appropriate monitoring said Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Chernyshov.In particular within the framework of the project of the ministry in the next year and a half 5 state building norms will be updated according to modern requirements of barrier-free. 7 international standards in the field of accessibility of public buildings will also be introduced. All new public buildings in Ukraine will be created taking into account the principles of inclusive design.In the Ministry of Regional Development noted that this initiative is aimed at a wide range of people who because of physical bar premieres can not use public buildings they are people with disabilities parents with baby strollers and people with temporarily limited mobility and citizens ripe old age and pregnant women and children under 7 years.The ministrys agenda includes monitoring of health care institutions educational institutions administrative service centers etc. The plans - to check not only the presence of relevant about objects ramps elevators handrails but also on their compliance with state building regulations for accessibility and barrier-free. Therefore monitoring will help identify the needs of less mobile populations in each region.Guidelines for assessing the degree of accessibility are developed in the near future. Based on the monitoring the ratings of regional state administrations will be formed according to the degree of accessibility. Such events will be held regularly Oleksiy Chernyshov announced.Minregion The project is one of the seven flagship projects included in the Action Plan to implement the National Strategy to create bezbar yernoho space in Ukraine developed within the initiative of the first lady Helen Zelenskaya.
