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Society and Disability and the Peruvian Down Syndrome Society, civil society organizations in Peru advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities, have produced a video on the impact of the World Bank funded Lima Urban Transport Project (Metropolitano) and the Mainstreaming Inclusive Design and Universal Mobility in Lima Project on persons with disabilities.
The Metropolitano represented a unique opportunity for persons with disabilities in Lima to gain access to a public transportation system for the first time as no other mass transit system in the city had been even remotely accessible. However, given the lack of policies at the World Bank that address the specific needs of persons with disabilities, the Metropolitano was not built to be fully accessible which then caused the Bank to reinvest to improve accessibility features of the project. The video shows the importance of ensuring that World Bank projects are inclusive for persons with disabilities so that everyone can benefit from and not be harmed by Bank projects.
Read the full case study on the Metropolitano here.