Plan International is seeking a consultant/s to support with a theory of change for a global inclusive gender transformative quality education programme model.
More details can be found in the proposal documents. Please refer to the code RFQ – FY22 098.
The deadline is 27 January 2022 at 23:59 GMT.
Women-owned businesses and companies actively engaged in advancing gender equality and women empowerment in the workplace are especially encouraged to apply.
Read ‘Liberia: a safe environment welcomes children back at school’.
This blog article highlights how, with support from GPE and UNICEF, the government of Liberia is making good progress in promoting safe learning and ensuring children can stay healthy while in school.
Date: 14 February 2022.
The Government of Norway, the International Disability Alliance (IDA),and the Atlas Alliance, in consultation with IDA’s Youth Committee and Youth Mental Health Norway, are organising a Youth Summit under the auspices of the Global Disability Summit 2022.
The Youth Summit will be an opportunity to reflect on the dynamism and energy of youth with disabilities worldwide and to draw attention to topics that are particularly important for youth with disabilities.
The Youth Summit will take place on 14 February 2022, two days prior to the Global Disability Summit. An agenda for the Youth Summit, as well as instructions on how to connect, will be shared prior to the event.
The Atlas Alliance Foundation is an umbrella organisation for persons with disabilities that works to promote the rights and improve living conditions of people with disabilities in the global South. They have now launched their brand new website.
In 2019, Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation within the Norwegian government, announced new funding for measures aimed at people with disabilities, with emphasis on cooperation between DPOs and NGOs. A large group of Norwegian organisations then decided to apply together as a consortium (Together for Inclusion – TOFI) with the Atlas Alliance as the leader, to really show that organisations of people with disabilities must sit in the driver’s seat and lead the work, as always under the movement’s slogan “Nothing about us without us”.
EENET has been working alongside Atlas Alliance and NAD providing technical support for its TOFI programming in inclusive education since the start of the initiative. Read more information on the Inclusive Education Teacher Training programme in Uganda the DPO capacity building programme in Uganda.
Date: 14 – 17 February 2022.
The Global Disability Summit (GDS) is an important global event to promote disability rights and disability in development. It offers a concrete mechanism for collecting new, ambitious, and widespread commitments which are critical to achieving real change for persons with disabilities.
The first Global Disability held in 2018 (GDS18) was a historic event for disability inclusion, co-hosted by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Government of Kenya, and the International Disability Alliance (IDA). The GDS18 inspired unprecedented engagement and generated commitments to action that will help deliver Agenda 2030’s vision to ‘Leave No One Behind’ (LNOB) as well as existing obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The GDS provides a great opportunity to make the disability inclusion work of DPOs and NGOs more known, and to intensify the advocacy, and thereby to achieve results that make a difference in the lives of persons with disabilities.
Sign up and invite others to participate.
Dates: 16 – 17 February 2021.
Read more on the Global Disability Summit website.
The International Disability Alliance (IDA), the Government of Norway, and the Government of Ghana will host the second Global Disability Summit on 16 and 17 February 2022 (GDS2022). The Summit will be mainly virtual.
The hosts of the Global Disability Summit, along with the Civil Society Reference Group, are making a call for speakers for the main Summit and the Civil Society Forum. Read the information and application form.
Deadline for applications: Friday 21 January 2022.
78 educational staff and volunteers delivered home learning booklets and posters to 930 marginalized households in late December in Puntland, Somalia.
The home learning resources were developed by EENET and NAD and adapted for Somalia in collaboration with Save the Children, ADRA and with guidance from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education. The resources show parents and families what learning looks like at home and in the community and help families support their children’s ongoing learning at home, even after they return to school.
Printed copies of the home learning materials can also be found in the EENET shop.
Paula Hunt (2021) ‘Inclusive education: The case for early identification and early intervention in assistive technology‘.
This paper, published in the journal Assistive Technology, argues that, if assistive technology is an enabler for learning, then the processes by which children with disabilities are identified as users of assistive technology must take place as early as possible in the lifecycle.
Date and time: Thursday, January 20, 2022 | 9:00 am ET – 10:30 am ET.
Register in advance.
All are invited to join an inclusive education focused thematic workshop in the lead up to the
Global Disability Summit (GDS) to help build momentum and interest before the GDS in
February 2022.
The Inclusive Education Thematic Workshop will provide an opportunity for
world leaders, policymakers, organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), funders,
international organizations, civil society organizations, advocates, and other important
stakeholders to convene and discuss lessons learned and best practices going forward. This
workshop will also provide a time to highlight stakeholders who have made GDS commitments to inclusive education and hold all stakeholders accountable to ensure that learners with disabilities are fully included in any and all international development efforts going forward.
For more information reach out to Stephanie Peña
(spena@gce-us.org) or Christa Giesecke (cgiesecke@gce-us.org).
Follow the events on Twitter with the hashtags #GDSIE #GDS2022
#InclusiveEducation #CommitToChange
Humanity and Inclusion (HI) is seeking an Inclusive Education Research Officer in Sierra Leone to co-ordinate research activities and support the production of research reports.
