approach in public strategies, policies and actions in line with inclusion and combating discrimination. The provisions of Decree No. 2018/6233/PM of 26 July 2018 to lay down the enabling provisions of Law No. 2010/2 of 13 April 2010 on the protection and promotion of persons with disabilities fall in line with the orientation of the action carried out while Decree No. 2018/6234/PM of 26 July 2018 to reorganise the National Committee on the Rehabilitation and Economic Reintegration of Persons with Disabilities consolidates the conduct of the action for persons with disabilities. §1: Formal Consolidation of Strategic Protection Options of Persons with Disabilities 516- The 5 substantive chapters of Decree No. 2018/6233/PM of 26 July 2018 cover the areas in which actions were deployed during the reference period. The areas include education and vocational training of persons with disabilities317, employment of persons with disabilities318, access of persons with disabilities to infrastructure, housing, transport, and communication319, access of persons with disabilities to political, sports, artistic, cultural and leisure activities320, and access of persons with disabilities to medical care and disability allowance321. This paragraph will dwell only on the last 3 aspects since the first 2 aspects have been discussed above (see right to education, right to participation in the management of public affairs, and right to work). A: Access of Persons with Disabilities to Infrastructure, Housing, Transport and Communication 517- On 16 July 2013, the Minister of Public Contracts, the Minister of Public Works, the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, and the Minister of Social Affairs signed Joint Circular No. 2/LCC/MINMAP/MINTP/MINDHU/MINAS to facilitate access of persons with disabilities to built environment322. In this regard, the National Sports Infrastructure Development Programme took into account the disability approach in the construction of football stadia by providing handrails and banisters in stadia in Yaounde, Bafoussam and Limbe and in all sites that hosted the female Africa Cup of Nations in 2016 and those earmarked to host future sports competitions. 518- In a bid to consolidate such achievements, the Decree of 2018 subjects the issuance of building permits or permits to exploit public and private buildings and installations open to the public, to the obligation of developing the area such as to enable persons with disabilities to have access thereto (Article 18 (3)). Similar developments have been prescribed for communication channels. 519- With regard to housing, preferential measures were prescribed for persons with disabilities including especially allocation of houses in the lowest floors of storey buildings, reduction of rents in public houses and reduction of interest rates on loans granted by public establishments for the purchase of unbuilt landed property or for the building of private houses. 317 Chapter 2. Chapter 3 319 Chapter 4 320 Chapter 5 321 Chapter 6 322 The Circular prescribed the integration and respect of the disability approach in the terms of reference of the architectural and technical studies of the construction of public buildings and infrastructure or private buildings and infrastructure open to the public; and strict monitoring and efficiency of the disability approach in the construction and maintenance of buildings with special developments to make them accessible to persons with disabilities, and checking the consideration of technical specificities relating to their accessibility by persons with disabilities before the reception of any structure open to the public. 318 88