Technical roundtable on inclusive education

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Key Information

Children with disabilities remain one of the most excluded groups from education. Of the one billion persons with disabilities worldwide, 150 million are children, according to the World Health Organization. However, there is limited information on who these children are and what their individual needs may be. As a result, countries often do not know how to include children with disabilities in their national education systems. Persisting stigmas, unconducive school design, and a lack of teacher training and appropriate learning materials on inclusive education makes their access to school and learning even more difficult. The Round Table addressed these issues by bringing together government experts, development partners, and major national Disability People’s Organizations from eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and the Pacific. The participating countries included Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, and Viet Nam. The overall objectives of the Round Table were: - Identify critical data and capacity gaps at different institutional levels that may hinder efforts towards more inclusive education sector analysis; - Discuss the importance and usefulness of an education sector analysis in moving towards inclusive education sector plan preparation; - Present and discuss tools and good practices in moving towards an education sector analysis on inclusive education; - Take stock of current practices in disability-inclusive planning at national and sub-national levels; - Formulate the capacity needs to be addressed in a future IIEP and UNICEF training programme on inclusive education.


Location(s)

Global

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2018 - 2018

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality

Cross-cutting areas

  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Teaching

  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved health - other