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Youth webinar series on the futures of education, UNESCO, 11 and 19 March 2021

This webinar series, co-organized with the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, addresses broad questions around young people’s views on the possible and fundamental transformations in how societies, politics, economies and cultures may be organized in the future, and more specifically, how education systems and schooling may look like.

 

Technology and the futures of education

This webinar will discuss the different ways technology can help advance the sustainable development agenda and particularly education, aiming to contribute to more equitable and inclusive education systems

Date: Thursday, 11 March, 15:00-16:30 Paris time.

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The futures of education for persons with disabilities

This webinar will discuss effective practices and inclusive policies for learners with disabilities and learning difficulties, exchange experiences, and identify necessary transformations for education systems in the future

Date: Friday, 19 March, 15:00-16:30 Paris time.

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** Deadline expired ** Global Technical Lead – Inclusive Teaching and Learning, Sightsavers

Location: UK / flexible.

Application deadline: 14 March 2021.

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Sightsavers is looking for a Global Technical Lead, Inclusive Teaching and Learning with disability expertise to promote inclusive teaching and learning for children, youth, and adults with disabilities in education systems in West Africa, East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA), and South Asia.

** Deadline expired ** Consultancy to write inclusive education proposal, Bangladesh, Humanity & Inclusion

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USAID is expected to release a call for proposals for an inclusive education project (Shobai Miley Pori :“Everyone Reads Together”). A Humanity and Inclusion-led consortium seeks to hire a consultant to support the proposal writing process based on Shobai Miley Pori anticipated priorities and building upon partners previous experience.

It is anticipated this consultancy will require 15 days of work before the end of February 2021.

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** Deadline expired ** Chief of Party (Reading for All – Inclusive Education Program), Nepal, Humanity & Inclusion

Location: Kathmandu with frequent field visits.

Duration: 18 months.

Application deadline: 27 January 2021.

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HI is leading the inclusive education project – Reading For All (with support of USAID in Nepal) implemented in a consortium. This project is testing inclusive education models for improving reading skills for children with disabilities from Grades 1 to 3, with the Nepal Government in 10 Districts. The aim is to scale it up for the National Early Grade Reading Programme of the Nepal Government.  The project has started in May 2018 and will end in September 2022; the overall budget is USD 5.500.000

To carry out of this project, HI Nepal is looking for an Inclusive Education Chief of Party for 18 months

Under the line management of the Operations Manager, the Chief of Party will serve as the primary point of contact with USAID/Nepal. They will be responsible for the overall implementation of this inclusive education project, including financial and operational management.

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Report: Leave No Child Behind. Invest in the early years

This report provides an overview and findings on the state of inclusive early childhood development (ECD) in sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest proportion of children at risk of not meeting their developmental milestones.

The research focused on 4 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Ten donors were analysed in terms of their investment in early childhood development: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, United States; European Union, Global Partnership for Education, World Bank, UNICEF.

Download Leave No Child Behind. Invest in the early years.

World Bank report on education for learners with disabilities in the COVID-19 context

COVID-19 requires a rethink of remote learning to ensure inclusion. Every child with and without disability needs to access and participate in learning that takes place within and away from the classroom.

Read more in the new World Bank report: Pivoting to Inclusion: Leveraging Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis for Learners with Disabilities.

GCE Education in Emergency (EiE) Community of Practice (CoP)

Date: 1 December 2020.

Time: 4pm, Johannesburg.

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The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) invites you to an EiE CoP on promoting the right to education of people living with disabilities in emergency contexts.

This session aims to reflect on some of the critical challenges of securing the right to education for people living with disabilities in contexts of emergency and share best practices in responding to various crises, including climate and conflict crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Speakers:

Sandrine Bohan-Jacquot, Humanity & Inclusion
Marine Sicre, Master in Risk Management.

Languages: English with French interpretation.

Note: This is not an EENET event, please contact the organisers with any queries.

UNESCO inclusive education online symposium

Title: Ensuring the right to quality inclusive education for persons with disabilities: From commitment to action.

Date: 25-27 November 2020.

Platform: Zoom.

Hosts: UNESCO, Leonard Cheshire, and the Ministry of Education of Portugal.

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This virtual symposium will run over 2.5 days and will follow a blended approach to enhance participation and involvement. It will include panellists from selected countries and organizations around the world.

Large-scale exclusion of children with disabilities remains the reality in many UNESCO Member States. An estimated 32 million, or 1 in 3 children, with disabilities are out of school.  In 2020, the large-scale exclusion of children with disabilities has been exacerbated by COVID-19.

The seminar will focus on the reasons for continued exclusion and inequitable educational provision experienced by children with disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on the impacts of distance learning for children with disabilities during COVID-19 as well as their transition back to the classrooms after an extended period of time at home. It will also explore how the inclusion of learners with disabilities in inclusive settings can be more effectively addressed by governments with regards to the commitments of Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the CRPD General Comment 4 on Article 24, and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.’

The symposium will be held in English, French and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation, also into international sign language. The symposium will be conducted through the Zoom webinar platform.

Read the full symposium agenda.

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