The resource is a report of a two-year comparative study in India funded by DFID. The study looked at the reasons that, despite disability legislation and service provision existing, prevent people with disabilities in urban slums from full participation in socio-economic development of their community and broader society.

This booklet looks at universal design providing a room by room description of ways to increase the ease and flexibility of a home.

The Association of Access Consultants in Australia (ACA Australia) is a national membership-based professional association for people working to achieve accessibility of the built environment for people with a disability.

The purpose of this paper is to promote the benefits of universal design and to recommend ways in which universal design can be integrated as a component in projects of the World Bank.

The Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) is now implementing national land and transportation policies based on the concept of universal design. It has established a Universal Design Policy Promotion Headquarters within the ministry and has now conducted discussions a total of fifteen times.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries have only recently begun the process of making the physical environment accessible to its population as a whole, including people with disabilities. Making the transition to full accessibility requires integrating the concept into all facets of society- from education and architecture to tourism and communications.