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**Deadline expired** [Online] Fifth International Conference on Educational Quality, March 2022

Date: 9-11 March 2022.

The fifth International Conference on Educational Quality (ICEQ22) will be hosted by Ibn Zohr University (Morocco) in collaboration with INCLUDE. The theme of the conference is Inclusion, Equality and Diversity in Education: Critical Perspectives, Global Challenges and Local Needs.

The conference brings together international professionals with an interest in quality across the education sector. Participants will share research, policy initiatives and case studies relating to theory and practice that extend the boundaries of thinking, language, context and culture.

Registration is free and all who are interested are encouraged to attend.

First Deafblind International African Conference, May 2022, Kenya

Date: 12 -14 May 2022.

Where: Kenya Institute of Special Education, Nairobi, Kenya.

The first Deafblind International Africa Conference will be hosted by Deafblind International in Nairobi, Kenya in May.

The conference will showcase research, experiences, and best practices that are shaping the world for those who are deafblind. This conference is not only for academics and professionals working in the field of deafblindness but also for any professional working in the field and for people who are deafblind and for their families.

Please look at the website for more information. 

 

Resources shared during World Bank’s GDS side event

This list of reports and other resources was shared during the Global Disability Summit side event: “Every Learner Matters: Sharing Experiences from the World Bank’s programs on Disability-Inclusive Education” on 17 February 2022.

IDA: Inclusive Education Flagship Initiative

IDA Inclusive Education Global Report

IDA Technical paper on Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Inclusive Education Initiative: Survey report on COVID-19 school closures

Inclusive Education Initiative: A Landscape Review of ICT for Disability

NORAD/HI/Agence Francaise de developpment (in French)La situation éducative des filles handicapées en Afrique de l’Ouest

Teach: a free classroom observation tool

The World Bank Inclusive Education Initiative: Pivoting to Inclusion: Leveraging Lessons from the COVID-19The World Bank

The World Bank Disability-Inclusive Education in Africa Programme

The World Bank Inclusive Education Initiative: The Challenge of Inclusive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Young Africans Leadership Initiative

UK launch of the 2021/2 GEM Report, March 2022

Date: Wednesday 2 March 2022.

Time: 10:30 – 12:30 GMT.

UK launch of the 2021/2 GEM Report: Non-state actors in education: Who chooses? Who loses?

The event will be held both in person at Broadway House, Westminster  SW1H 9NQ  and online.

The UK launch of the 2021/2 GEM Report will examine the relevant findings from the global report and discuss what lessons these experiences hold for other countries.  The presentation will  shed light on issues that surfaced and intensified during COVID-19; and discuss approaches to #RightTheRules in education systems.

Register online

**Deadline expired** [Webinar] Researching disability and Covid-19 in the Global South, March 2022

Date: Thursday 3 March 2022.

Time: 13:00 – 17:00 (UK time).

Innovative methods for researching disability and Covid-19 in the Global South.

This workshop, aimed at academics and practitioners alike, will enable participants to learn about innovative and equitable ways of engaging with disability research in a development context. It will share learning and reflections by a research network of case study projects on the impact of Covid-19 on people with disabilities in different contexts.

While the focus of the workshop is on research, it will be relevant for anyone who gathers and analyses data on disability, including those working outside of academia, for example policymakers, NGOs and development consultants, Disabled People’s Organisations, advocates, activists, and students.

Please read more about the workshop and register if interested.

[New podcast episode] ‘Leaving no one behind’, Rosangela Berman-Bieler

“We need disability not to be hidden under the soil, but to erupt as a volcano and spread information about disability across the world,” says Rosangela Berman-Bieler (64), Global Lead on Disability in UNICEF.

Rosangela was born and raised in Brazil, and she has been instrumental in influencing the international disability rights for decades. She became paraplegic after a car accident at the age of 18. She established the first centre for independent living in Brazil, 35 years ago.

Rosangela talks about the contextual barriers encountered by persons with disabilities in the global South and she expresses her thoughts on leaving no child, youth, or adolescent with disabilities behind.

See and listen to the episode on the following platforms:

Apple podcasts.

YouTube.

Spotify.

Soundcloud.

[New campaign] Deaf Works Everywhere

Deaf Works Everywhere is a campaign to get more deaf young people into work – and into jobs that inspire them.

Many deaf young people believe their career options are limited. With the right support deaf people can work everywhere, yet they are twice as likely to be unemployed as their hearing peers. But deaf people can be musicians, doctors and electricians – the list is endless.

The campaign highlights the need for better careers support, more work experience and volunteering opportunities, and challenging expectations of what deaf young people can achieve.

Support the campaign: Are you deaf, aged over 18 and want to inspire others? You can tell the campaign organisers how you would like to work with them. Your support can help raise the aspirations of deaf young people.

Take a look at the website to find out more. 

 

You can also view the Welsh translation of this page, Byddar yn Gweithio Mhobman.

**Deadline expired** GDS Side Event – Disability inclusive safeguarding

Date: Wednesday 17 February

Time: 13.00 CET / 12.00 GMT

 

Title: Disability Inclusive Safeguarding: A Non-Negotiable for Disability Inclusive Development and Humanitarian Work

 

Chaired: by Maria Njeri a disability inclusion advocate and youth with cerebral palsy.

 

This event is held by Able Child Africa, Save the Children and UWEZO Youth Empowerment in Rwanda and will highlight the current gap in understanding on how best to safeguard children with disabilities in programmatic delivery. The event will provide practical advice on how practitioners can safeguard all children in their work, pointing practitioners towards the Disability-inclusive Child Safeguarding Guidelines and Toolkit recently published and provide example commitments organisations can adopt relating to inclusive safeguarding.

 

Registration link

 

 

**Deadline expired** GDS Side Event: engagement of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in IE

Date: Wednesday 16 February 2022

Time: 10:00 CET

Please register for this event. 

Norwegian Association of Disabled (NAD) together with ADRA Norway, Save the Children Norway and Strømme Foundation are co-hosting a Global Disability Summit (GDS) side-event on the engagement of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) in furthering inclusive education. They will have a panel of speakers discussing issues on the topic.

The event will also be hosted on Facebook: