Inclusion International is working with the International Disability Alliance and our members in Colombia and Niger to make sure children with disabilities are not left out of education in emergencies.

This work is funded by Education Cannot Wait (ECW)’s Acceleration Facility, a funding pool designed to address systemic barriers to education in emergencies.

Goals

This project aims to help humanitarian organisations and organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) to work together better, and to create tools that help make sure children with disabilities can access inclusive education in emergencies.

To make this happen, the project is working towards four main goals:

  1. To support OPDs to get involved in work about education in emergencies
  2. To build connections between OPDs and humanitarian organisations that design and deliver education in emergencies programming
  3. To work with ECW’s Multi-Year Resilience Programmes (MYRPs) in Colombia and Niger to test new tools and inclusive ways of working
  4. To share important knowledge from the project with humanitarian organisations worldwide to help them to make their work more inclusive

Activities

  1. Collecting and analysing data from children with disabilities and their families about their experiences attempting to access eductation in situations of crisis
  2. Delivering joint workshops for OPDs and humanitarian actors about how they can work together to make education in emergencies interventions more inclusive
  3. Creating learning tools for humanitarian actors about removing barriers for children with disabilities accessing education
  4. Training teachers on how to make sure children with disablities are included in the classroom
  5. Hosting a workshop to support families to build a joint vision of inclusive education

For too long, decisions about the education of children with disabilities have been made for, rather than by and with, them.

Maha Khochen-Bagshaw, Education Cannot Wait