Our Project Roadmap explains the change we wish to make to both disabled people’s lives and to their relationship to institutions

Inclusive Green North East draws on our experience influencing local authorities and in training and education disabled people. We have created a roadmap for our ambitions in influencing the project’s stakeholders and in influencing and changing the daily lives of disabled people living in the North East

Inclusive Green North East will work toward our roadmap of intended outcomes with local authorities:

  1. Changing perceptions of disability - disabled people will by default be seen as active consumers of services and development related to the green economy

  2. Increasing the accessibility of current services - current green economy services and signposting will be audited for accessiblity

  3. Increasing the accessibility of existing and new climate action services - disabled people will be invited to audit and shape new green economy services a

  4. Improved policy and monitoring systems - services delivered and green economy and infrastructure programmes developed will reach an agreed standard of inclusion co-created with the disabled community

  5. Increased accessibility and inclusion of all services - by the project’s end, the number of disabled people involved im cli

  6. Organisational and individual behaviour change - a whole-organisation approach will be taken for disability inclusion

Inclusive Green North East will work toward our roadmap of intended outcomes with disabled people and Disabled People’s Organisations:

  1. Changing perceptions of disability - disabled people will by default see themselves as active consumers of services and development related to the green economy, able to have a say in shaping how the green transition is carried out and able to change their behaviour to protect the climate.

  2. Increasing disabled people’s agency, control and knowledge of how to dismantle barriers - disabled people’s groups and disabled people will have the desire and information and skills required to make lasting change in organisations and their lives

  3. What are my accessible climate action options - disabled people will be able to use the project’s outputs to link themselves with organisations that can help them to practice green habits, get jobs in the green economy and to make green decisions.

  4. How to access local climate action - disabled people will be able to use the projects outputs to understand which organisations, services, locations and stakeholders in their immediate North East borough will allow them to participate in the green economy

  5. Increased accessibility and inclusion of all services - by the project’s end, a large scale increase in the number of disabled people practicing green habits, using nature and the natural environment, and

  6. Community and individual climate action - by the project’s end, disabled people in the North East will make more climate-friendly decisions every day, they will experience their local green spaces and natural world more, they will participate in green jobs and in steering groups for the North East’s green economy