Track: Sustainability and Green Systems

Abstract

This research posits that the issue of accessible and inclusive developments (AIUD) is perhaps one of the most discussed and researched subjects under the broad rubric of sustainable urban developments. AIUD are developments that ensures accessibility for and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of developments and follow universal design approach by removing barriers to the physical environment, transportation, employment, education, health, services, information and assistive devices such as information and communications technology (ICTs) to achieve fullest potential and dependency for all society members. In spite of the vast focus of discourse and practice or policy on AIUD, a major concern and rationale for this study is the poor or inadequate evaluation of AIUD governance evaluation, due primarily to lack of coherent, standard and applicable evaluation tool. AIUD is known as a dynamic complex environment involving multi sectors and multi stakeholders which leads to challenges for decision makers in successful implementation. Therefore, this research propose research methodology for developing a governance evaluation model for AIUD using Multi-Criteria Decision Making tool (MCDM) to rank performance and prioritize improvement actions. Further studies will follow this research to fully develop the model according to the proposed research methodology.