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UNDP organized a daylong Festival of Tolerance at the premises of Bangla Academy on 16 Nov 2022. At the festival B-SCAN launched the "Universal Accessibility Guideline" which was made by the financial support of UNDP along with the support of MAS Studio. The objective of Bangla Universal Accessibility Guideline is to spread and make people understand why we need accessibility and what we should do to ensure that people with all types of disabilities can easily get access and enter...

B-SCAN has done the accessibility audit of UNICEF office facilities in Mar - April 2022. A total of 8 offices (Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mymensingh, Rangpur, Barishal, Khulna, Sylhet and Dhaka) including UNICEF's head office in Dhaka. We have visited the offices and found the gaps in the needs of different types of persons with disabilities and will provide reports and recommendations on the results accordingly.https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2036556486523628&type=3

B-SCAN organized a roundtable discussion in collaboration with icddr,b on the findings of the study titled 'Nationwide assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and incontinence situation of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh at the Daily Star Centre, Dhaka on 18 Nov, 2023. The population-based cross-sectional study, conducted from November 2022 to October 2023, covered all eight divisions of and 32 districts of Bangladesh. It involved screening a total of 17,577 individuals from 6,457 urban and rural...