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Date: Tuesday 29 June 2021.

Time: 12:30-13:35 CEST.

Hosts: Network of Education Policy Centres, European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education and International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030.

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This interactive webinar will highlight the efforts and activities of teachers across the Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region who work hard to make sure every child has the right to go to school and learn, regardless of who they are and where they live. Sharing these experiences means that insights can be provided into innovative practices that are mentioned in the regional report, and networks of teachers, that are working hard to overcome barriers restricting inclusive education, can be connected.

This event will be held in English, and led by teachers from Croatia, Albania, Turkey, Bosnia, and Herzegovina.

Date: Thursday 24 June 2021.

Time: 11:00 GMT/07:00 EST/13:00 CET.

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Because of increasing conflicts, there has been a rise in the numbers of migrants and refugees; so this virtual event will mainly focus on the importance of national education programs and policies that can support inclusive education for migrants and refugees. This is even more relevant now as access to social services during the pandemic have been halted and discrimination has been worsened. The speakers at the panel will share good practices in education to help contribute to preventing further discrimination and rupture of the social fabric.

Speakers:

Dr. Angeliki Aroni – Head, Unit for Integration and Support, Special Secretariat for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors, Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Greece.

Ms. Afshan Khan – UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, andSpecial Coordinator, Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe.

Ms. Maria Lucia Uribe – Executive Director, Arigatou International Geneva.

Ms. Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta – Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa.

Mr. Javed Natiq – Education Sector Lead, World Vision Afghanistan.

Date: Thursday 17 June 17 2021.

Time: 1:15-2:30pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)/6:15pm-7:30pm BST.

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This free online event aims to discuss how development and humanitarian actors are trying to address the existing gaps in inclusive education for boys and girls with disabilities, which have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and work on ways to improve education access to these children. The speakers will present approaches that can help fill in existing knowledge gaps on the learning of boys and girls with disabilities, their learning environment, and how it meets their needs. Evidence and case studies, that concern the programming on education and how disability inclusion has been embedded in both design and implementation, will also be talked about.

The event will be available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish, with closed captions and ASL interpretation provided.

Date: Thursday 17 June 2021.

Time: 3:00pm-4:15pm EST.

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This virtual event will focus on UNICEF’s new accessible digital resources for education catalogue. These resources are made for classrooms, home learning, and on-the-go learning; including tools and content to support inclusive education in all of these areas. They are specifically made or found to ensure they can be used in both low and high-resource environments, span open-source to paid solutions, and showcase a range of approaches for the production, distribution, and implementation of accessible digital content for education.

Date: Wednesday 16 June 16 2021.

Time: 10:00am to 11:15am EST.

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This virtual COSP side-event will share lessons and experiences from The World’s Bank’s programs, such as ways to put disability-inclusive education into action, in the context of low-income countries.

There will be International Sign and live captioning available for this event.

Speakers:

• Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, The World Bank.
• Shwetlena Sabarwal, Senior Economist, The World Bank (Nepal).
• Mupuwaliywa Mupuwaliywa, Economist, The World Bank (Zambia).
• Nancy Mendy, Principal Education Officer, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, The Gambia.

Date: 14-18 June.

Host: A New Direction.

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`I Am Festival` is a yearly celebration that empowers D/deaf, disabled, and neurodiverse young people to explore their creativity. A range of artistic contributions from creative partners and disabled-led arts organisations will be showcased over the 4 days, along with live events and exclusive premieres. The event will take place online and in schools, with the welcoming talk starting online at 9:30am on the 14 June. The pupils and teachers in A New Direction’s SEND Network have been focusing on the theme of `love` this year in schools, and this festival will be presenting what `love` means to the young people involved. All of the online events are free, enabling easy access for all those wanting to take part.

Date: Wednesday 16 June.

Time: 8:30 to 9:45am EDT/ 14:30 to 15:45 CEST. 

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This side event will aim to provide guidelines to local, national, and international stakeholders that are based on lessons learnt during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is to support their recovery and help them build sustainable resilience to any shocks to them in the future. It will also focus on reflecting on how people with disabilities will access vaccinations. 

Speakers:

• Dr. Amita Bhakta, Consultant, IDDC
• Dominic Haslam, Chair, IDDC
• Elham Youssefian, Inclusive Humanitarian Action and DRR Advisor, IDA
• Dorodi Sharma, Inclusive Development Officer, IDA
• Rejaul Karim Siddiquee, OPD Engagement Officer for Bangladesh, IDA
• Speaker from Disability Inclusion Helpdesk, part of the Inclusive Futures (IF) Programme funded by the FCDO
• Ola Abu Alghaib, Manager, Technical Secretariat UNPRPD MPTF
• Representative from FCDO (TBC)