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We are at the 16^th International Education and Development UKFIET conference this week. The theme is: ‘Building Back Better in Education and Training: Reimagining, Reorienting and Redistributing’.

Usually, EENET has a stall at the conference in Oxford, UK. This year we have a stall in the virtual exhibition space. Helen, Ingrid and Su from EENET are taking shifts on the stall. Do pop along to say a virtual hello if you are attending the event. You can also find some key documents and videos on our virtual stall, and ask us questions or book a video call with us.

If you have not signed up to attend the conference, here is an Activity Overview flier we compiled for delegates, summarising some of EENET’s recent work and important reading materials.

NAD has launched a new website. It shares NAD’s work on inclusive education, human rights advocacy, economic empowerment, and disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction in Malawi, Palestine, Uganda, Zambia, and Zanzibar. You can also download training manuals on inclusive education, community based inclusive development training, and inclusive economic empowerment.

The inclusive education teacher training modules, developed by EENET and NAD in collaboration with trainers and teachers in Zambia, are now available to download from our website.

The modules are available under creative commons license. This means you are welcome to use the modules, and adapt them to your own needs and context.

The Zambia version has been approved by the Ministry of Education for use nationally. You can read more about the teacher training approach and how the modules were developed on our website. Contact us if you have any queries.

There are 11 modules available:

1. Introduction to inclusive education;
2. School inclusion teams;
3. Identifying out-of-school children;
4. Screening and identification of learning needs;
5. Creating individual education plans;
6. Exploring the role of a school inclusive education co-ordinator;
7. Promoting active learning in the classroom;
8. Developing learner participation;
9. Including learners in transition;
10. Including learners who have intellectual and/or development impairments;
11. Making teaching and learning aids from locally available resources.

Another 8 documents have recently been added to our online library:

Cost-Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning. What does recent evidence tell us are “Smart Buys” for improving learning in low- and middle-income countries? PDF 7,1mb.

Disability-inclusive Child Safeguarding Guidelines PDF 3,6mb.

Disability-Inclusive Education in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt): West Bank & Gaza PDF 454kb.

Girls’ education and child marriage PDF 3mb.

Review of UDL in Low- and Middle-Income Countries PDF 1,5mb.

Stemming Pandemic-Related Losses in Girls’ Education: Promising Practices from the AMPLIFY Collective PDF 12,8mb.

Teacher Professional Development & Play-based Learning in East Africa. Strengthening Research, Policy, and Practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda PDF 1,5mb.

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the education of persons with disabilities: challenges and opportunities of distance education: policy brief PDF 493kb.

If you have any inclusive education documents that you would like us to add to our online library, please contact us.

STiR Education’s new paper shares experiences from its teams in India and Uganda. It describes how they have adapted their work during the Covid-19 pandemic, and used virtual approaches to support teachers.

Read ‘Reflections on our Covid Response’.

In the last month we have added various new items to our online inclusive education library. These include:

An Introduction to Inclusive Education for Disabled People’s Organisations. Participants’ Handbook. PDF 2mb.

Deaf Education in the Global South (MESHGuide) HTML.

EdTech for Learners with Disabilities in Primary School Settings in LMICS: A Systematic Literature Review PDF 4.2mb.

Insisting on inclusion: Institutionalisation and barriers to education for children with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan HTML.

Right From the Start: Build Inclusive Societies Through Inclusive Early Childhood Education. Policy Paper 46 HTML.

School for Everyone. Series of posters and leaflets.

Skills for Inclusive Facilitation (video).

If you have any inclusive education documents or videos that you would like us to add to the EENET online library, please contact us.

EENET worked with World Bank Zambia and the Zambian Ministry of Education Education (as part of a USAID-funded initiative) to develop a series of 3 posters. They contain key messages that you can use when working with stakeholders. The posters are available to download in A4 and A3 sizes from EENET’ website:

We also helped to develop a series of 3 leaflets. The leaflets are designed to be printed double-sided on A4 paper, then folded to A5.

You can download the leaflets from our website:

Leaflet for community members.

Leaflet for school leaders.

Leaflet for education managers.

This new blog post by Ayman Qwaider highlights the situation of education following the latest bombing in Gaza. It reports on an INEE workshop with educators from Gaza. The blog also contains a hard-hitting timeline graphic showing the extent of the challenges and trauma that an average 14-year-old from Gaza has already experienced.

Read the blog post in English.