[kictanet] On Kenyan Building Standards - accessibility & diversity

[Matunda Nyanchama]

Friends

The recent discussion on Kenyan building standards is enlightening. Aside from safety, accessibility is another concern. I am wondering whether anyone has done a study with respect to accessibility, especially for people with handicaps (or disabilities as some term it) of one kind or the other. How business friendly, for instance, are building in our fast-growing corporate centre in Upper Hill?


While working for one of the banks here in Canada, I served in the diversity committee and I am proud to say that the bank took and implemented almost all our recommendations and amended its building code accordingly. This meant all building had to have wheelchair access, parking spaces for people with disabilities, cafeteria food counters that can be reached at wheel-chair level, toilets, etc. This further extended to their ATMs (braille, wheel chair access, and keypads with digit-related sounds) and many more.

Issues of disability and accommodation thereof are matter requiring attention in all our planning, be it the transportation system, buildings, name it. They are issues of diversity and inclusion, beyond ethnicity and gender.


I am attaching a press release on recent doctoral thesis (which we have published a mass market paper back) that analyzes the issue of women with disabilities in Kenyan institutes of higher learning. It is insightful.

Have a good weekend.

 
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Matunda Nyanchama, PhD, CISSP; mnyanchama at aganoconsulting.com
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