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Date: Thursday, 19 November 2020.

Time: 08:30-10:00 EST / 13:30-15:00 GMT / 14:30-16:00 CET.

Platform: Zoom.

Languages: The event will be held in English, with French, Portuguese and International Sign interpretation. English captioning will be provided.

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Millions of children under the age of five in low- and middle-income countries are at high risk of not achieving their full potential. Marginalised children such as children with disabilities and developmental delays are even more excluded from services, although their developmental gains are the highest.

The research into the financing and implementation of inclusive early childhood development by ten donors examines case studies across 4 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe) and shows severe gaps in services and funding.

The COVID-19 crisis is putting even higher strain on domestic and international resources, but funding for inclusive early childhood development cannot wait: It is essential to support young children’s development, and this development happens during a small time window between birth and the age of five.

Join leaders in the development field when they share the main findings and recommendations of the report. The panelists will also discuss how we all can contribute to fully inclusive, high-quality and equitable early childhood development systems.

Report and launch event co-sponsors:

Light for the World, Open Society Foundations Early Childhood Program, Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), Global Campaign for Education (GCE) International and US, International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), International Disability Alliance (IDA).

Note: This is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers directly with any queries.

Date: Tuesday 1 December 2020.

Time: 1:30pm to 2:45pm GMT.

Platform: Zoom.

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This short event will introduce Deaf Child Worldwide’s report: ‘Unheard Children: championing deaf children’s rights to family, community, education and independence in developing countries’.

The report looks at the situation for deaf children in some of the world’s poorest communities. Presentations:

• Director of Deaf Child Worldwide, Joanna Clark, will give a brief overview of the report, its findings and what action Governments, policy makers and international organisations can take.
• You will hear from practitioners with lived experience working in South Asia and East Africa who will shine a spotlight on the challenges faced by many deaf children and how to build programmes that break down the barriers they face.
• The Head of the Disability Inclusion Team at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Penny Innes, will give an overview of what the UK government is doing to support disabled children around the world and what other organisations can learn from the programmes they have developed.
• The event will close with a short panel discussion with the event’s participants.​​​​​​​

Note: This is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers directly with any queries.

Date: 5 November 2020, 3.30pm (Paris).

Platform: Zoom.

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The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report will launch a regional report on inclusion and education in Latin America and the Caribbean on 5 November 2020.

The regional report follows the global edition – the 2020 GEM Report – which was released in June 2020. Both reports draw on analyses of six elements: laws and policies; governance and finance; curricula and learning materials; teachers and support personnel; schools; and communities, parents and students and on the impact of school closures caused by Covid-19 on learning.

This is the second in a series of regional reports being produced by the GEM Report, following a report on migration and displacement in the Arab States produced in November 2019. The third regional report will cover inclusion and education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, due for release in December 2020.

Register for the Latin America and the Caribbean Report launch.

Date: Monday, 9 November 2020. 8:30am-10:45am ET (New York).

Registration details coming soon

The online anniversary event for Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) will be an opportunity to look back over 20 years of INEE and to reflect on the achievements and challenges in the field of education in emergencies (EiE). The virtual event will be an opportunity to

• hear from children, young people, and teachers on why education is important
• share stories from INEE members, past and present
• learn about the key achievements and challenges in the EiE sector
• come together in celebration.

There will be simultaneous translation in Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and closed captioning in English. Registration details are coming soon.

Note: this is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers with all queries.

Date: 20 November 2020, 15:00 GMT.

Platform: Zoom.

Hosted by: Handicap International and the University of Luxembourg.

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1 in 20 children under 14 years old has a disability worldwide. Children with disabilities have an equal right to an inclusive, quality and free primary and secondary education. However, education systems and services worldwide are failing to meet this right, both in terms of access and quality of education. Not only children with disabilities have lower rates of enrolment in education, but also higher dropout rates, with poor levels of attendance, progression and learning.

This lecture will shed light on the educational situation of children with disabilities in low and middle income countries, highlighting how the interaction of multiple discriminatory factors (like gender and disability) results in increased exclusion.

Real-time captioning service will be available: as speakers and participants will take the floor, a written text will appear on video, in order to break down communication barriers that exist for people who are deaf, hard of hearing or whose native language is not English.

Note: this is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers with all queries.