Analysis of accessibility map of the state program “Accessible Environment” (a case study of Moscow)

Abstract

The article is an attempt to assess the capabilities of interactive map of accessibility of objects that was developed and implemented during the ten-year phase of the state program “Accessible Environment”. The map of accessibility, being the declared result of the program implementation, was developed in order to accumulate and convey to the population relevantи and reliable information about the accessibility of priority social, engineering and transport infrastructure objects. Development of the map of accessibility was conducted by the federal and regional authorities with the participation of SONCOs –socially oriented organizations. Scale of the carried out work should speak about its high efficiency, however, in the opinion of the authors, the specified map of accessibility is not the known, discussed tool neither in a public field, nor in the sphere of social work, including work with elderly people and people with disabilities, which are positioned as the basic target group of the project. Empirical testing was carried out by methods of analysis and observation in 2 stages: analysis of the interactive map of accessibility of social facilities in Moscow on the portal zhit-vmeste.ru and analysis of the external and internal environment of city institutions. The authors analyze the objects of social protection of Moscow on the map of accessibility (October 2022) and come to the conclusion that the organizations represented on the map reflect only a small proportion of such significant objects as social service organizations. The authors supplement the analysis of the map with the analysis of the external and internal environment in social service organizations according to the indicators presented in the passport of the state program “Accessible environment”. The results of this analysis show that the level of compliance of the environment of organizations does not affect their reflection on the map. This conclusion raises the question of the need for all-Russian study of accessibility map as a result of the federal program, identifying the reasons for incomplete reflection of social facilities on it and their elimination in order to raise awareness of citizens about the opportunities of social protection sphere.