The Royal Board of Disability, chaired by Queen Letizia and which annually awards the national awards that bear her name, awarded the Cartagena City Council the Queen Letizia National Disability Award for the 'Inclusive Cartagena' plan. This makes the council the only public administration to receive an award this year.
With this award, the board recognizes that the policies of accessibility, integration and care for people with disabilities in Cartagena “have generated a transformative power in the city and its local environment that is favoring the social participation of residents with disabilities in the city », explained the Awards Jury.
The mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, indicated: “It is a recognition of the work that the professionals of our social services have promoted, together with disability groups, to make Cartagena a fully inclusive city, a municipality with increasingly less barriers”.
This makes the council the only public administration to receive an award this year
'Inclusive Cartagena' is the II Municipal Disability Plan, which between 2020 and 2024 stated that “accessibility is present in culture, heritage, sports, tourism, beaches and also in employment policies.” , or in training.
The mayor remarked that “walking through Cartagena is a real experience of accessibility of public roads,” recalling that there are 110,000 square meters of pedestrianized areas in the center and single-platform streets in the city and in the provincial councils, such as those already established. They built in El Algar and La Palma. «We are one of the few Spanish cities that have a Technical Accessibility Office. And we have developed two municipal accessibility plans,” added Noelia Arroyo.
For the councilor, the award “shows that we are on the right track.” However, she also considered: “There is still much to do, so we are already working on a new municipal plan that improves and expands resources and accessibility for people with disabilities.”
Guarantee universal accessibility
Specifically, the Royal Board of Trustees awarded the Cartagena City Council the Queen Letizia National Disability Award for Accessibility and Universal Design in Municipalities, thanks to the Cartagena City Council's proposal to integrate universal accessibility into the plans, projects and regulations of this municipality.
In the resolution of the awards, published this Wednesday in the BOE, the Board of Trustees specifies that the municipal plans were valued, the creation of the Unit for people with disabilities, the Information Point for people with disabilities, the Ordinance regulating universal accessibility in the municipality in 2018, the creation of the Technical Accessibility Office and the Sustainable and Accessible Urban Mobility Plan, among other merits.
The plenary session of the Cartagena City Council approved last January, at the proposal of the mayor, to present the candidacy for these awards.
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