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A  new short advocacy video has been created by Humanity & Inclusion on the importance of inclusive education.

Please share!

The 2021 Annual Report for the Bernard ven Leer Foundation is now online in an interactive format.

It focuses on sharing powerful stories about supporting scaling policies and programmes that impact the wellbeing of babies, toddlers and their families.  The selected stories highlight the most important achievements and learnings related to the strategic goals in Parents+, Urban95 and Early Years Thought Leadership.

Summaries are available in Arabic, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Portuguese and Spanish.

Call for Articles – Enabling Education Review  – Issue 11 – 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic turned education upside down during much of 2020 and 2021. Schools have reopened in most places, but our education systems will never be the same again. We all experienced not just disruption and challenges but innovations and achievements that can shape the future of education for the better.

The theme for the 2022 edition of Enabling Education Review will be:

 “Inclusion in the new normal”

We want to share your experiences of transitions back into school, what the situation is like in the ‘new normal’, and what we have learned that could help us rebuild education systems better and more inclusively. For example:

• What has been done to support learners transitioning back into schools?
• How have approaches to teaching and learning changed because of the pandemic?
• As a teacher, what did you do to reach and support all your learners when schools reopened? What challenges and opportunities have you experienced? Who has helped you?
• How have adaptations to the new normal been financed and managed, and by whom?
• As a parent/caregiver/learner, how have you advocated at the local or national level for approaches to education to be more inclusive after schools re-opened?
• For learners who were already learning at home before the pandemic, how has their home learning been affected (positively or negatively) by the changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic?
• How has the pandemic affected the mental and physical well-being of learners, parents, families, and teachers? What has been done to support them?
• What lessons have we learned that we could use to improve the design and inclusivity of education systems long term?

The deadline for submitting first drafts of articles is 30 June 2022. Details of suggested topics and how to submit articles are provided on the EENET website.

Contact info@eenet.org.uk with any questions.

UNESCO has released an Inclusion in Education evaluation report.  A two-page summary is also available in English and in French, highlighting the key messages of the evaluation. 

The evaluation aimed to identify what has been achieved so far, whether UNESCO is on the right track as a standard-setting organization towards achieving the 2030 inclusion agenda, and reconfirm the Organization’s comparative strengths and optimal positioning in this area of work. It provides programmatic and strategic level recommendations to feed into the formulation of future strategic directions for the Organization’s work on inclusion in education and inform the way forward.

The evaluation builds on the momentum of increased policy attention to inclusion, and addresses inclusion-related challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and concludes that the UNESCO Education Sector shall further improve the visibility and use of data on vulnerable and marginalised learners and strengthen the focus on inclusion consistently across all thematic strands in education.

The Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) has released an exciting new season of its podcast, Behind the Pages.

Seven new episodes are now live!

This season on Behind the Pages, JEiE authors join perspectives on child protection, emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction, caregiver mental health and psychosocial support, and responsive caregiving with rigorous methods for assessing ECD interventions. They examine how planned and improvised program adaptations, participatory approaches, and deeper understanding of culture and context contribute to early learning for children living in conflict and crisis settings.

Behind the Pages is available to stream in English on:

Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Stitcher.

The articles discussed on this season of Behind the Pages and all issues of JEiE can also be accessed, for free, in their entirety on the INEE website.

Join the Deaf Child Worldwide ‘Introduction to Deafness’ training – for free!

This free online training course will be held from 21-23 June 2022.

It’s for those who work or are planning to work with deaf children in the Global South. Participants will learn more about the basics of deafness and the impact it can have on a child’s life.

The course is delivered in three sessions and is free, and there is a short application process as it is limited to NGO and charity staff only. This course is not suitable of professionals working with deaf children in the UK or other high-income countries. Please register for more details. 

EENET has released several new inclusive education materials already this year, including:

• 4 short inclusive education online courses. These are built around EENET’s ‘Inclusive Beginnings’ videos. Two courses offer insights into inclusive practice and inclusive transition, and two provide ideas for how to use videos effectively in training and advocacy. All the courses are available free of charge. Everyone who finishes gets a certificate and there are WhatsApp groups so participants can chat with EENET and each other.

• Supporting learning at home in the early years: a booklet of ideas and activities. This is a new ECD focused edition of our very popular home learning booklet created as part of the EENET/NAD inclusive home learning project.

• A continuum for Inclusion: Home learning, education transition, and inclusive school-based learning. These short case studies from Zambia, Zanzibar, Ukraine, Uganda, eSwatini and Armenia were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. They show the challenges of – and connections between – home learning, education transitions and making education more inclusive for all. Free printed copies are available. Sadly, the experiences of the Ukrainian education stakeholders will now be very different from those described in the booklet.

• Inclusion in Remote Learning. A set of 3 short videos that EENET produced for British Council. These are available with English and Arabic subtitles.

The INEE Gender Training Manual is now available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish!

The manual is intended to orient education practitioners to the INEE Guidance Note on Gender: Gender Equality in and through Education (2019). This training manual outlines 4-8 hours of training activities and materials related to gender-responsive education in emergencies. The training encourages participants to apply suggested good practices for gender-responsive education in emergencies and to use the INEE Guidance Note on Gender as a planning and implementation tool.

These training materials include guidance for facilitators (including key concepts, activity instructions, and discussion guides), presentation slides, and activity handouts for participants.

Download the training pack for more information. 

Visit the INEE website regularly for resources, opportunities, and information – in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish – about gender and girls’ education in emergencies.

The Education Commission has launched the new Greater Share Fund and is investing in child-centric models that leverage a broader workforce – directly drawing on exisiting learning teams approach.

The fund is an exciting new philanthropic investment model that harnesses the expertise of the world’s top-performing private equity funds and highest impact NGOs to transform education for children in underserved communities across the world. It will disburse $300 million in funding to a number of NGOs with a track record of using evidence-based, child-centric models to transform children’s learning and offer great examples of learning teams in action.

Read more about the Greater Share Fund on their blog.