Accessibility and Safety Audits

Accessibility and safety audits are participatory and practical tools that can be used to rapidly assess a facility's usability from the perspective of users whose requirements are often ignored in standard design.

WaterAid and WEDC designed these audits to involve women and people with disabilities in the assessment process – as well as planners, engineers, builders or masons – so that all stakeholders understand, from the perspective of users, how to make facilities safer and more accessible. Ideally, regular users of the latrine or water point should be involved in discussing the results of the audits.