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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.

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.

Date: Thursday, 19 November 2020.

Time: 08:30-10:00 EST / 13:30-15:00 GMT / 14:30-16:00 CET.

Platform: Zoom.

Languages: The event will be held in English, with French, Portuguese and International Sign interpretation. English captioning will be provided.

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Millions of children under the age of five in low- and middle-income countries are at high risk of not achieving their full potential. Marginalised children such as children with disabilities and developmental delays are even more excluded from services, although their developmental gains are the highest.

The research into the financing and implementation of inclusive early childhood development by ten donors examines case studies across 4 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe) and shows severe gaps in services and funding.

The COVID-19 crisis is putting even higher strain on domestic and international resources, but funding for inclusive early childhood development cannot wait: It is essential to support young children’s development, and this development happens during a small time window between birth and the age of five.

Join leaders in the development field when they share the main findings and recommendations of the report. The panelists will also discuss how we all can contribute to fully inclusive, high-quality and equitable early childhood development systems.

Report and launch event co-sponsors:

Light for the World, Open Society Foundations Early Childhood Program, Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), Global Campaign for Education (GCE) International and US, International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), International Disability Alliance (IDA).

Note: This is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers directly with any queries.

Date: Tuesday 1 December 2020.

Time: 1:30pm to 2:45pm GMT.

Platform: Zoom.

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This short event will introduce Deaf Child Worldwide’s report: ‘Unheard Children: championing deaf children’s rights to family, community, education and independence in developing countries’.

The report looks at the situation for deaf children in some of the world’s poorest communities. Presentations:

• Director of Deaf Child Worldwide, Joanna Clark, will give a brief overview of the report, its findings and what action Governments, policy makers and international organisations can take.
• You will hear from practitioners with lived experience working in South Asia and East Africa who will shine a spotlight on the challenges faced by many deaf children and how to build programmes that break down the barriers they face.
• The Head of the Disability Inclusion Team at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Penny Innes, will give an overview of what the UK government is doing to support disabled children around the world and what other organisations can learn from the programmes they have developed.
• The event will close with a short panel discussion with the event’s participants.​​​​​​​

Note: This is not an EENET event. Please contact the organisers directly with any queries.

Date: 5 November 2020, 3.30pm (Paris).

Platform: Zoom.

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The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report will launch a regional report on inclusion and education in Latin America and the Caribbean on 5 November 2020.

The regional report follows the global edition – the 2020 GEM Report – which was released in June 2020. Both reports draw on analyses of six elements: laws and policies; governance and finance; curricula and learning materials; teachers and support personnel; schools; and communities, parents and students and on the impact of school closures caused by Covid-19 on learning.

This is the second in a series of regional reports being produced by the GEM Report, following a report on migration and displacement in the Arab States produced in November 2019. The third regional report will cover inclusion and education in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, due for release in December 2020.

Register for the Latin America and the Caribbean Report launch.