With the vision that education is one of the most effective ways to break the cycle of discrimination and poverty that children with disabilities and their families often face, the Global Partnership for Education works with governments to promote inclusive education policies to ensure that all children, especially children with disabilities, can attend school, learn, and complete their schooling. It helps developing country partners design data collection instruments and programs to take stock of the number of disabled children and elaborate relevant education programs to integrate them into school and it collects disaggregated data on children with disability that is imperative for effective planning and design of inclusion policies, programs and interventions.
Areas of Interest
- Children with Disabilities
- Early Childhood Care and Education
- Girl’s Education
- Out-of-school Children
- Learning Outcomes
- Numeracy
- Teachers
- Conflict-affected and Fragile States
- Aid Effectiveness
The GPE categories children with disabilities as thus
- Children with disabilities enrolled in school but excluded from learning because the curriculum has not been adapted to their needs or teachers do not have the capacity or time to make the needed adaptations, and/or they do not have access to assistive devices necessary for their learning needs. Example – Children with low vision are unable to see the board without eye glasses.
- Children who are not enrolled in school but who could participate if schools had the capacity in terms of knowledge, skills and equipment to respond to their specific needs. Example – Children with physical disabilities who cannot access the classrooms or children with learning difficulties who may require a slightly different method of teaching or extra hours of instruction.
- Children with severe disabilities who require additional specialized support, whether in school or not. This group is relatively small (2-3% of all children with disabilities). Example – Children with limited speech or communication, children with a need for support in major life activities or children with multiple disabilities. In addition, a variety of medical problems, such as seizures or sensory loss, may accompany severe disabilities.
The foundation strives to support the children in all forms of disabilities and secure their rights to education. The researchers conducted has shown that a significant number of so-called disabled and out-of-school children suffered from easily treatable ailments such as hearing loss caused by untreated ear infections.
Focus Regions
Developing Countries
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