Webinar 3: Disability-Inclusive Planning and Resilient Cities
📅 Date: 29 January 2026
🤝 Organized by: UNECE
In collaboration with: Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, UNDP Ukraine
🕙 Time: 10:00 -12:30 CET
💻 Format: Online (Zoom)
🌐 Languages: English & Ukrainian (simultaneous interpretation)
In the context of Ukraine’s recovery, rebuilding urban areas offers a unique opportunity to design environments that are inclusive of persons with disabilities from the outset. The conflict has exacerbated existing physical, institutional, and social barriers, and has increased the number of people with mobility or cognitive impairments due to injury or trauma. It is crucial to recognize that disabilities can be both visible and invisible - including mental health conditions, chronic pain, and neurodivergent conditions - which often remain unacknowledged in traditional planning approaches.
Yet cities can be reimagined to become more inclusive through universal design, barrier-free infrastructure, and participatory planning processes that fully involve people with disabilities. This webinar will address how Ukraine’s cities can advance disability inclusion in reconstruction efforts, aligning with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the principle of “Leave No One Behind.”
This is the third session in the series of UNECE’s Inclusive Urban Recovery in Ukraine, under the UN4UkrainianCities project, aimed at making cities more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient.
Objectives
Raise awareness of the barriers people with disabilities face in urban environments.
Share best practices in inclusive urban design and planning.
Highlight Ukraine’s potential to lead on accessibility in post-conflict reconstruction.
Foster collaboration among stakeholders committed to inclusive and barrier-free cities.
Join us to discover practical tools, strategies, and collaborative approaches for rebuilding Ukrainian cities that leave no one behind.