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NEW EENET’s inclusive home learning project

We recently launched a new project – in partnership with Norwegian Association of Disabled – to develop some short guidance resources for parents, caregivers and families, especially those with children with disabilities.

The focus is on encouraging appropriate, achievable, low-stress learning activities that use the time, skills and resources available in the family. We will be prioritising the production of hard-copy materials and working closely with local distributors in Zambia and Zanzibar to create localised solutions to the challenge of disseminating materials during a period of social distancing.

All materials will be freely available online too in PDF format.

Find out more about the inclusive home learning project.

Guidance notes from Humanity & Inclusion

Humanity & Inclusion has developed three guidance notes to support education for learners with disabilities during the Covid-19 crisis:

Guidance Note 1, Inclusive Digital Learning

Guidance Note 2, Teacher Resources

Guidance Note 3, Home Support

Ensuring Inclusive Education during COVID-19 – webinar recording

During the sixth webinar of the INEE COVID-19 webinar series, education in emergencies actors provided practical recommendations and examples for supporting inclusive education approaches in the COVID-19 response, with a particular focus on supporting children and young people with disabilities. You can watch a recording of the webinar.

Protecting children during Covid-19 crisis

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children are experiencing big disruptions to their lives. For example, they cannot go to school, their families may be living in isolation, and their families will be experiencing increased levels of challenges and stress. This means that during the crisis there will be increased child protection risks.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action has released a ‘Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic’. It explains some of the risks generated by the COVID-19 crisis and suggests responses. Please read this as it will have relevant messages for any country affected by the pandemic. The Technical Note is available in Chinese, English, Farsi, French and Italian. In addition, Arabic, Korean and Spanish versions are due for publication on 23 March.

Now available online ‘Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education’ videos from Lesotho

Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education is a video-based training package created in Lesotho in 1996. It was produced by the Ministry of Education and Save the Children with financial support from Comic Relief. The videos were originally published on VHS tapes and have now been digitised and uploaded to EENET’s YouTube channel in 4 parts.

*Use with care* The videos are almost 25 years old. They contain a lot of disability-focused advice that remains useful today, but inevitably they also feature some terminology and concepts that are no longer considered suitable. So, please use the videos, but be critical and selective.

There is a trainers’ manual to accompany the videos.

Video: Including refugees and migrants in and through education

Education International has produced this short, easy to understand animated video on including refugees and migrants in and through education.

New report Education of children with visual impairments in sub-Saharan Africa

Sightsavers has recently published a new report ‘Education of children with visual impairments in sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and opportunities’. It includes case studies from Malawi, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania.

Sign up to receive the GEM report on inclusive education

UNESCO’s 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report is scheduled for launch on 23 June. This year’s report focuses on Inclusion and Education. You can sign up online to receive the report when it is published.

New blog Climate change – rethinking the way we work

In this blog post, Rachel Bowden discusses fundamental changes needed to the way we work, necessitated by the global climate emergency, and brought into urgent focus by the current Covid-19 pandemic. The blog is available in English and Arabic.

Covid-19 situation

EENET’s small team around the world has been working hard over the last few weeks. We are all freelance and already work from home, so you should hopefully see no major disruptions to our day-to-day information sharing through the website and social media. If the quantity of new material declines a bit, or we’re a bit slower responding to enquiries, it will be because we have a heavy workload to redesign various projects affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

We recognise of course that EENET’s readers’ information and support needs may change, especially now that many millions of children are unable to attend school, so we welcome suggestions for different or additional information we could help to collate and share. Please contact us with ideas, suggestions or questions.

We are engaged in several projects that should have involved facilitating events and trainings. Our biggest cancellation was a study tour to Zambia for partners in the Together for Inclusion (TOFI) programme, which should have been happening this week. The tour was going to showcase Zambia’s experience with the participatory development of teacher training approach. However, we are now designing a virtual study tour instead. This will be available online to TOFI programme stakeholders initially, but we hope that a free public version will be made available later.

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