Za'atari Camp Accessibility Assessment - HI - Nov 2012

Status:	Published 6 November 2012 - 19 November 2012
Not funded
Sampling:	Random
Sampling size:
Target population:	Population in Camp

Za'atari Camp Accessibility Assessment - HI - Nov 2012

Status:	Published 6 November 2012 - 19 November 2012
Not funded
Sampling:	Random
Sampling size:
Target population:	Population in Camp

Needs

Install accessible portable toilet in registration. Set up at least steps, ideally ramps, for registration area, communal facility areas, pre-fab accommodation. Set up information board in registration area with map of camp, indicating main pathways and locations of services. Establish further information board for visual messages and use speaker system for oral messages. Mark a pedestrian lane on main road. Spread gravel across camp. Set up directions and signaling panels along pathways. Build accessible WASH facilities in existing blocks, set up adapted handbasins in WASH facilities. Widen doors in kitchen blocks to at least 90cm wide.

Main Findings

In the UNHCR Registration Area - no seating available, no disabled-access toilet, no ramp to registration rooms, no signage. On the camp pathway - muddy ground in western area, traffic circulation, no signage. In WASH facilities - no disabled-access to toilet or shower, no accessible hand basins, laundry basins are low to ground, insufficient signage. In tents and shelters - ground quality deteriorates with floods, some tents in inaccessible areas, prefab models are unaccessable, and 40% of these prefabs are intended for vulnerable persons. In other facilities - most facilities in inaccessible prefabs, kitchen sites are inaccessible, distribution sites not signposted.