This position paper outlines Save the Children’s continued commitment in 2022 to ensuring that all children have equal access to a quality, rights-based inclusive education which emphasizes equity in access and participation, and responds positively to the individual learning needs and competencies of all children.
Take a look on the Child Rights Resource Centre for the position paper and many more materials and resources.
Listen to Kanwal Singh’s insights into inclusive education in India on this podcast. Kanwal is former director of the Vishwas school and author of Hanging On: A Special Educator’s journey into inclusive education.
The podcast reflects on Kanwals career working with students with disabilities in special schools and why her attitude changed toward inclusive practices. Kanwal discusses her experience as the director at Vishwas school and what she’s learned about sustaining inclusive education over the years. And what teachers need to know if they want to keep inclusive education going in their school or district.
First published in 2016 we now find ourselves 6 years into the ‘Survive, thrive and transform global strategy. The joint WHO and UNCIEF ‘Every woman, every child’: Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health (2016 – 2030) was launched to build on the new commitments and advocacy of the health-related Millennium Development Goals.
By helping to create an enabling environment for health, the Global Strategy aims to transform societies so that women, children and adolescents everywhere can realize their
rights to the highest attainable standards of health and well-being. This, in turn, will
deliver enormous social, demographic and economic benefits.
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You an also download the 2022 Global Strategy progress report: ‘Protect the promise’ which provides an update on the ‘Every woman, every child’: Global Strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health (2016 – 2030).
CBM has launched the Inclusive Participation Toolbox, a new digital centre with resources for supporting the meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities and organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs).
The toolbox is designed for professionals working in international development. It supports them to develop and implement inclusive programmes, organise consultations, plan events, and prepare presentations. It will help professionals and organisations to work with and for persons with disabilities.
UNESCO Beirut recently published ‘Promoting the Inclusion of Children and Young People with Disabilities in Education in the Arab Region’. The report analyses inclusive education in Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and makes recommendations for future actions. The report focuses on persons with disabilities but recognises that other groups of learners are marginalised within or excluded from educational provision. It highlights progress achieved and still required and urges governments to take action.
The report can now be downloaded in French.
The 2022 Global Strategy progress report is an update on the ‘Every woman, every child’: Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health (2016 – 2030).
The progress report highlights data showing stagnation or drops in coverage of lifesaving interventions, which serve as a reminder of the need to be more vigilant about bridging gaps and placing women, children and adolescents at the centre of development efforts.
The report emphasises that women’s empowerment and adolescent participation are pivotal to achieving the 2030 Agenda yet notes that there is a long way to go in reducing gender inequality and increasing young people’s meaningful opportunities to actively engage in community, education and civic life.
Equitas education was commissioned in 2022 by Save the Children, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme, to carry out a study on out-of-school children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, covering 2015-2020.
The study’s focus countries are Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Turkey, and Yemen over the years 2015-2020. The study focuses on four specific areas of inquiry:
You can view and download the report through the Save the Children’s Child Rights Resource Centre.
New data is now available in the SDG 4 UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) database containing information on over 200 countries.
The UIS’ new approach to data collection, using dynamic templates to produce 23 indicators on students, teachers, schools, and education expenditure, has resulted in significant increases in data coverage for SDG 4 indicators.