Date: 1 March 2022.
Time: 15:00 CET / 09:00 ET.
Save the Children will be holding an online launch of their Inclusive Education Resources and Toolkit.
Register to receive your personalised calendar invitation and Zoom link.
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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
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
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.
**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:
[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.
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.
**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.
**Deadline expired** GDS Side Event: IE and the INEE Minimum Standards
Date: Wednesday16 February 2022
Time: 4.00pm UTC | 5.00pm CET
Global Disability Summit 2022 Side Event: Inclusive Education Case Studies and the INEE Minimum Standards
INEE is updating the INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery (INEE MS) for the first time in over 10 years.
The objective of this GDS side event is to present and share good practices on: the ongoing work being done by the INEE to review the INEE Minimum Standards with a gender and disability inclusion lens; using the INEE Minimum Standards to implement inclusive education programming in emergency contexts; and sharing INEE IETT and members’ suggestions for how to make the INEE Minimum Standards more applicable for inclusive education programs in emergency contexts in the future.
This web event will be conducted in English with closed captioning in English and simultaneous interpretation in American Sign Language.