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Zero Project Report 2018 Zero Project Report 2018 Accessibility 68 Innovative Practices, 15 Innovative Policies, and 22 Social Indicators from 105 countries International study on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – “For a World without Barriers” Zero Project Director and Chief Editor: Michael Fembek Authors: Peter Charles, Michael Fembek, Wilfried Kainz, Seema Mundackal, Amelie Saupe, Marina Vaughan-Spitzy, Alice Kahane, Caroline Wagner This publication was developed with contributions from Doris Neuwirth (coordination); Christoph Almasy (design); and John Tessitore (editing). Photos of Innovative Practices and Innovative Policies as well as photos for “Life Stories” have been provided by their respective organizations. ISBN 978-3-9504208-3-8 © Essl Foundation, January 2018. All rights reserved. First published 2018. Printed in Austria. Published in the Zero Project Report series: Zero Project Report 2017: Employment Zero Project Report 2016: Education and ICT Zero Project Report 2015: Independent Living and Political Participation Zero Project Report 2015 Austria: Selbstbestimmtes Leben und Politische Teilhabe Zero Project Report 2014: Accessibility Zero Project Report 2013: Employment Disclaimers The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the Essl Foundation or the Zero Project. The designations employed and the presentation of the material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatso- ever on the part of the Essl Foundation concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delineation of its frontiers or boundaries. The composition of geographical regions and selected economic and other group- ings used in this report is based on UN Statistics (www.unstats.org), including the borders of Europe, and on the Human Development Index (hdr.undp.org). For more information on this report, to download versions, and for further analysis of the Zero Project, visit www.zeroproject.org For information or copies, contact: [email protected] Essl Foundation, c/o Haus der Philanthropie, Schottenring 16, 1010 Vienna, Austria Content FOREWORD Martin Essl, Founder, Essl Foundation ................................... 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................... 4 Table: All 68 Innovative Practices ........................................ 14 Table: All 15 Innovative Policies ........................................... 17 MAPS: INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AND POLICIES World ......................................................................... 18 Europe ........................................................................20 SECTION 1: SOCIAL INDICATORS 2018 Analysing the Social Indicators .......................................... 26 Encouraging new approaches ........................................... 28 World maps of Social Indicators ........................................ 29 SECTION 2: INNOVATIVE PRACTICES 2018 Overview. 40 Common threads and solutions ......................................... 42 Fact Sheets of all Innovative Practices, listed by country A–Z ..... 44 Life Stories .....................................48, 58, 70, 82, 94, 106, 118 SECTION 3: INNOVATIVE POLICIES 2018 Overview. 128 Fact Sheets of all Innovative Policies, listed by country A–Z ...... 130 Life Stories ................................................................ 136 ANNEX Table: All 22 questions of the Social Indicator survey 2018 ........148 Table: All 126 responses from 105 countries ..........................149 Table: Social Indicators 2018 by theme and region ................. 152 Table: Zero Project Research Network 2017 – 2018 ................. 154 Acknowledgements ...................................................... 160 List of Acronyms ........................................................... 161 1 “For a World without Barriers” FOREWORD BY MARTIN ESSL What exciting times for the Zero Project! report, where you can find clusters of Practices and Policies Launched in 2009 by the Essl Foun- that we have identified as the most promising solutions to dation, the Zero Project has developed promote accessibility. There is more to come over the next enormously since then. We have picked year, promoting these patterns and clusters not only of up even more steam in 2017 and 2018, solutions but also of like-minded people. but without ever wavering from our mis- sion of removing barriers for all persons 22 Zero Project Social Indicators for 105 Countries with disabilities. The Zero Project net- Social Indicators are at the root of the Zero Project. This work keeps growing and now comprises year, with the great support not only of Disabled People’s more than 4,000 persons – both with and without disabilities. International but also of other powerful networks of persons I would like to take this opportunity to give an overview of with disabilities, such as Inclusion International, the EASPD the many activities of the Zero Project – the core work that and others, see page 26 for more details, we are pub- is done to present the annual Zero Project Report and what lishing 22 Social Indicators, measuring the implementation we have added recently, both internationally and nationally of the UN CRPD in 105 countries. These Social Indicators within Austria, the home base of both the Essl Foundation provide civil society and all people advocating for the rights and Zero Project. of persons with disabilities additional support in their quest for improvements in the implementation of the Convention. Zero Project Research 2017–2018 on Accessibility: 68 Innovative Practices, 15 Innovative Policies Zero Project Conference 2018 Let me start with the beating heart of the Zero Project. For The Zero Project Conference 2018 is our seventh such a period of more than six months the Zero Project team annual conference and the fifth to be held on the premises intensively researched some 370 Innovative Practices and of the United Nations in Vienna. The UN Office of Vienna and Innovative Policies on Accessibility, submitted from 80 coun- several other UN agencies are among our most important tries worldwide. From these nominations, and after engaging partners (the Essl Foundation is also an officially recognized with more than 1,000 experts from around the world, 68 partner both of the UN Economic and Social Council and the Innovative Practices and 15 Innovative Policies were selected Department of public Information), and we are proud to have as finalists. Over the last five years alone, we have engaged contributed an artwork that reminds employees and visitors with more than 4,000 stakeholders from 180 countries and to the U.N. building every day on the importance of inclusion across all sectors of society. and accessibility. I am also personally indebted to Georg Weilguny, com- Zero Project Report 2018 poser of the Zero Project Hymn, which will be given its first Our research does not end with this final selection, however. performance during the Zero Project Conference 2018. All the innovative solutions that have been selected are then carefully analyzed and screened, together with their initiators Zero Project Website & Social Media: All about Accessibility! and representatives. Thereafter, each of their stories is writ- All Zero Project research can be found, and itself re- ten up as a Fact Sheet by our team, and these are compiled searched, on zeroproject.org, which we continually update for the Zero Project Report. and develop. It is supported by news about Innovative This year’s Zero Project Report is our sixth thematic Practices, Innovative Policies, and our valued partners, which report. It is also the second report in our second four-year we also share via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and research cycle, which covers the four key themes of acces- our own YouTube channel. sibility identified in Article 9 of the United Nations Conven- tion on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD): Zero Project Impact Transfer 2018: Together with Ashoka, a Employment (2017), Accessibility (2018), Independent Living Pilot Programme with Ten Extraordinary Innovators and Political Participation (forthcoming in 2019), and Educa- In the summer of 2017, jointly with the team from Ashoka tion (forthcoming in 2020). (who also share the premises of the Haus der Philanthropie Since 2013 we have covered more than 400 Innovative – a new co-working space for the philanthropy-minded), we Practices and Innovative Policies. Importantly, we continue launched “Zero Project Impact Transfer.” Based on existing to remain in touch with most of their representatives, giving scaling models developed by Ashoka (Impact Transfer and us an ever-growing opportunity for a deeper analysis of Globalizer), we identified ten innovators out of the 68 Inno- patterns of solutions and various kinds of collaboration. vative Practices from this year’s research. Ashoka and its I should like to highlight pages 42 and 129 of this year’s Mentor Network are now supporting those ten to create via- 2 Zero Project Conference 2017: The Zero Project Conference gathered more than 500 innovators, opinion leaders, and policy-makers from more than 60 countries in the conference venues of the United Nations in Vienna, focusing on inclusive employment. In February 2018, the conference is all about innovative approaches to Accessibility. ble and self-sustaining models (and, for some, even business Cooperation with the City of Graz cases) that can be grown, scaled-up, or
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