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[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:

Apple podcasts.

YouTube.

Spotify.

Soundcloud.

[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.

Take a look at the website to find out more. 

 

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.

 

Registration link

 

 

**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.

The event will also be hosted on Facebook:

**Deadline expired** GDS Side Event: IE and the INEE Minimum Standards

Date: Wednesday16 February 2022

Time: 4.00pm UTC | 5.00pm CET

Register for the side event. 

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.

**Deadline expired** GDS Side Event – ‘Every learner matters’

Date: Thursday 17 February 2022

Time: 06:30am (EST) | 12:30 pm (CET)

Register here. 

‘Every Learner Matters: Sharing Experiences from the World Bank’s programs on Disability-Inclusive Education’

Aligning with the commitment made at the last Global Disability Summit to ensure disability-inclusion of all education projects by 2025, the World Bank will present progress on the activities supported by two trust funds, the Inclusive Education Initiative (IEI) and the USAID Disability-Inclusive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa program.

International Sign and captioning will be provided.

**Deadline expired** [Webinar]: ICT landscape review

Date: Monday 7 February 2022

Time: 09:15am – 10:30am (EST)

Register here.

Despite tremendous potential, a gap exists between ICT advancements and their large-scale application in educating children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. The World Bank Inclusive Education Initiative is holding a webinar to discuss findings from a review of the use of ICT in improving the educational participation and outcomes of children with disabilities.  The report shares insights from the experiences of multiple stakeholders, including teachers, parents and caregivers, government officials, and civil society.

International Sign and and closed captioning in English will be provided. Streaming captions will be available in Arabic, French, and Spanish.

EER 10 on ‘home learning’ now available

Enabling Education Review 10 on home learning is now online in HTML and PDF formats.

This edition shares the experiences of learners, parents, and teachers to showcase unique responses to the pandemic in Armenia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and the UK.

The articles also showcase resources to: support home learning; engage young people in advocacy; and for games based learning of languages and mathematics.

Read the EER10 on EENET’s website.

 

[Resource]: ‘Reaching out to all learners’, IBE-UNESCO

The ‘Training tools for curriculum development’ IBE-UNESCO resource pack series provides a framework to support the development of inclusive schools and classrooms. It provides guidance to support teachers on how to engage all learners.

The resource pack Reaching Out to All Learners focuses on what is arguably the greatest challenge facing education systems around the world, that of finding ways of including and ensuring the learning of all children in schools.

The English language version of the resource pack is now available to download from the UNESCO website.

 

 

 

 

New factsheet from HI on ICT and inclusive education

Humanity & Inclusion has released a factsheet on Information and Communication Technology supporting the inclusion of children with disabilities in education.

This factsheet draws on a study carried out by Humanity & Inclusion, which drew up an inventory of existing ICT that could help support inclusive education for children with disabilities and identified the challenges in implementing these ICT tools in the classrooms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Togo.

The factsheet calls for the integration ICT in education sector plans and education strategies, and for the allocation of specific budgets for their implementation.