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The draft was submitted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.
The directive approves the Accessible Environment, 2011-2015 programme of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Programme).
The agency responsible for implementing the programme is the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and its participants are the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Regional Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, the Ministry of Sport, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency and the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.
The programme includes two sub-programmes:
- ensuring the accessibility of priority facilities and services in vital spheres of life for people with disabilities and limited mobility;
- improving rehabilitation services and the state medical and social assessment system.
The programme aims to ensure free access to priority facilities and services in vital spheres of life for people with disabilities and limited mobility by 2016 and to improve rehabilitation services and the state medical and social assessment system.
The programme’s objectives are:
- to assess the accessibility of priority facilities and services in vital spheres of life for people with disabilities and limited mobility;
- to improve the accessibility of priority facilities and services in vital spheres of life for people with disabilities and limited mobility;
- to end segregation of people with disabilities;
- to modernise the state medical and social assessment system;
- to ensure equal access to rehabilitation services for people with disabilities.
The programme is to be implemented in two stages: Stage One (2011-2012) and Stage Two (2013-2015).
The funding for the programme is in line with the federal budget for 2013 and the planning period of 2014-2015.
The planned outcomes of the programme by 2016 include:
- increasing the share of priority social, transport and infrastructure facilities accessible for people with disabilities and limited mobility in the overall number of priority facilities from 12% to 45%;
- increasing the share of people with disabilities who have a positive assessment of the accessibility of vital priority facilities and services in the overall number of polled people with disabilities from 30% to 55%;
- increasing the share of people with disabilities who have a positive view of the public’s attitude to their issues in the overall number of polled people with disabilities from 30% to 49.6%;
- increasing the share of main regional medical and social assessment offices with special diagnostic equipment in the overall number of the main regional medical and social assessment offices from 10% to 86%;
- increasing the share of people with disabilities who report positive results of rehabilitation procedures in the overall number of people with disabilities who used rehabilitation services from 6.5% to 14.5%.
The implementation of this programme will help to create accessible environment for this group of people in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.