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Enhancing inclusive and equitable quality education among boys and girls

Date: Thursday 17 June 17 2021.

Time: 1:15-2:30pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)/6:15pm-7:30pm BST.

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This free online event aims to discuss how development and humanitarian actors are trying to address the existing gaps in inclusive education for boys and girls with disabilities, which have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and work on ways to improve education access to these children. The speakers will present approaches that can help fill in existing knowledge gaps on the learning of boys and girls with disabilities, their learning environment, and how it meets their needs. Evidence and case studies, that concern the programming on education and how disability inclusion has been embedded in both design and implementation, will also be talked about.

The event will be available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish, with closed captions and ASL interpretation provided.

Launch of JEiE Special Issue on ECD in Emergencies

Date: 23 June 2021.

Time: 9-10:30am EDT.

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This virtual event focuses on early childhood development (ECD) in emergencies and will feature contributing authors, issue editors, and guest speakers drawing attention to the efforts that address the needs of young children and families living in humanitarian situations. Lessons learnt from these efforts will also be shared. The articles that will be featured look at ECD in a range of different ways: education, health and nutrition, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, and response caregiving.

This webinar will be hosted in English and have English live captions.

Speakers (main panel):

  • Jonathan Seiden, PhD student at Harvard Graduate School of Education, presenting “Effects of Two Early Childhood Interventions on the Developmental Outcomes of Children in Post-Earthquake Nepal”.
  • Fabiola Lara, Senior Specialist on Early Childhood Care and Development at Save the Children, presenting “Building Resilience and Mitigating the Impact of Toxic Stress in Young Children: A Model for Transforming Parenting and Male Caregiving in El Salvador”.
  • Ayat Al Aqra, Early Childhood Development Manager for the Ahlan Simsim program in Jordan, and Katelin Swing Wilton, Senior Specialist in Early Childhood Development at International Rescue Committee, co-presenting “Home Visiting in the Middle East: Reflections on the Implementation of Reach Up and Learn”.
  • Samier Mansur, co-founder of LiveSafe mobile safety app and founder of No Limit Generation, presenting, “Accessible Strategies to Support Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in Emergencies: Experience from the Rohingya Refugee Camp”.

CoSP14 side-event: Building Back Better: Accessibility in Inclusive Education

Date: Thursday 17 June 2021.

Time: 3:00pm-4:15pm EST.

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This virtual event will focus on UNICEF’s new accessible digital resources for education catalogue. These resources are made for classrooms, home learning, and on-the-go learning; including tools and content to support inclusive education in all of these areas. They are specifically made or found to ensure they can be used in both low and high-resource environments, span open-source to paid solutions, and showcase a range of approaches for the production, distribution, and implementation of accessible digital content for education.

CoSP14 side-event: Making Disability-Inclusive Education a Priority

Date: Wednesday 16 June 16 2021.

Time: 10:00am to 11:15am EST.

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This virtual COSP side-event will share lessons and experiences from The World’s Bank’s programs, such as ways to put disability-inclusive education into action, in the context of low-income countries.

There will be International Sign and live captioning available for this event.

Speakers:

  • Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, The World Bank.
  • Shwetlena Sabarwal, Senior Economist, The World Bank (Nepal).
  • Mupuwaliywa Mupuwaliywa, Economist, The World Bank (Zambia).
  • Nancy Mendy, Principal Education Officer, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, The Gambia.

** Deadline expired ** PPP Policy & Development Officer Inclusive Education – Humanity & Inclusion USA

Location: Washington DC – USA.

Application deadline: 13th June 2021.

Apply and find out more information.

HI (Humanity & Inclusion) is an independent and impartial organisation that offers aid and development in situations of poverty, conflict, and disaster. They help meet the essential needs of people with disabilities, improve their living conditions, and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights by working alongside them.

HI is looking for a Policy and Development Officer to be a member of the Inclusive Education (IE) team that will help with the development of new projects (specifically, larger scale projects). You would bring new skills and expertise to the IE area that is expanding, and support the expanding of new associations; especially in terms of partners and donors based in North America. Developing HI’s expertise on Technical Assistance, in terms of for the IE field, is also a specific focus with this job role. You will work closely with the other members of the IE team but will lead the overall business development aspect.

This is a full-time position with regular international travel (as long as covid restrictions permit).

Online children’s disability arts festival

Date: 14-18 June.

Host: A New Direction.

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`I Am Festival` is a yearly celebration that empowers D/deaf, disabled, and neurodiverse young people to explore their creativity. A range of artistic contributions from creative partners and disabled-led arts organisations will be showcased over the 4 days, along with live events and exclusive premieres. The event will take place online and in schools, with the welcoming talk starting online at 9:30am on the 14 June. The pupils and teachers in A New Direction’s SEND Network have been focusing on the theme of `love` this year in schools, and this festival will be presenting what `love` means to the young people involved. All of the online events are free, enabling easy access for all those wanting to take part.

CoSP14 side-event: “One pandemic, different realities”

Date: Wednesday 16 June.

Time: 8:30 to 9:45am EDT/ 14:30 to 15:45 CEST. 

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This side event will aim to provide guidelines to local, national, and international stakeholders that are based on lessons learnt during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is to support their recovery and help them build sustainable resilience to any shocks to them in the future. It will also focus on reflecting on how people with disabilities will access vaccinations. 

Speakers:

  • Dr. Amita Bhakta, Consultant, IDDC
  • Dominic Haslam, Chair, IDDC
  • Elham Youssefian, Inclusive Humanitarian Action and DRR Advisor, IDA
  • Dorodi Sharma, Inclusive Development Officer, IDA
  • Rejaul Karim Siddiquee, OPD Engagement Officer for Bangladesh, IDA
  • Speaker from Disability Inclusion Helpdesk, part of the Inclusive Futures (IF) Programme funded by the FCDO
  • Ola Abu Alghaib, Manager, Technical Secretariat UNPRPD MPTF
  • Representative from FCDO (TBC)

** Deadline expired ** Consultancy: Revision of Special Education and Development Needs Assessment Toolkit – UNICEF, Armenia

Application deadline: 26 May 2021.

UNICEF Armenia has published a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an institutional consultancy on technical support to the Republican Pedagogical Psychological Center (RPPC) for Revision of the Special Education and Development Needs Assessment Toolkit.

Read the full Request for Proposals.

 

 

* Reminder * EER 9 on ‘Inclusive early childhood development and education’ now available

Don’t forget to have a look at our latest edition of Enabling Education Review. The articles cover a diverse selection of examples of making early childhood education and development more inclusive for all young learners.

Featured countries include:

England, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia.

Read EER9 in HTML format or in PDF format.

Call for Articles: Enabling Education Review Issue 10, 2021

Over the last year we have all found ourselves in an unusual situation. Our theme for the next edition therefore draws on the work being done to support children’s learning as we have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures. It will also look at the broader context of what it means to learn at home.

The theme for the 2021 edition of Enabling Education Review will be:

“Home learning”

The deadline for submitting first drafts of articles is 31 March 2021. Details of suggested topics and how to submit articles are provided in the full call for articles.

Call for Articles (Arabic).

Contact info@eenet.org.uk with any questions.