Links within this Sector

  • Including Disabled Children in Learning: Challenges in Developing Countries

    This paper explores key issues for including children with disabilities in education in developing countries, with a strong focus on the pedagogical challenges.

    Department for International Development (DFID) Research for Development: June 2010
  • Inclusive Education Toolkit

    This is a very practical and succinct toolkit to support inclusive education in a community.  It provides a useful disability overview and brief guidance on inclusive education. There are detailed plans for a 2 day workshop on supporting inclusive education, which could be run at a school, in the community or within an education department.

    Disabled Peoples International: 2009
  • It's about Ability - An explanation on the Convention of the Rights of Person with Disabilities

    This resource was initiated by UNICEF and is essentially a child friendly information booklet regarding the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is a colourful, easy to read booklet which explains the many articles of the convention in language a child can understand. It is a great resource to use with all children, but especially children with disabilities and their friends and classmates.

    Victor Santiago Pineda: 2008
  • Inclusive education: where there are few resources

    This book provides a background and critical overview of key issues, concepts and strategies in relation to inclusive education that are relevant to situations where economic resources and access to information is limited.

    Atlas Alliance: 2008
  • Inclusive education in the Pacific

    This resource covers a range of topics including international literature on inclusive education, international and regional conventions concerning the education of people with disabilities, as well as guidelines for their inclusion in national education systems. Case studies on the practice of inclusive education in Samoa, Tonga and Palau are also provided.

    University of the South Pacific: 2009
  • Making schools inclusive

    This resource has been developed for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to help school systems in developing countries become more inclusive. It shares experiences of developing tools and approaches that have improved education for the most excluded children in society.

    Enabling Education Network: 2008
  • Promoting the rights of children with disabilities

    This publication seeks to provide a global perspective on the situation of the some 200 million children with disabilities, based on reports from countries across regions and from a wide range of sources.

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre: 2007
  • Education for all: including children with disabilities

    This document is a short summary explaining the need for inclusive education for children with disabilities and some of its basic concepts and principles.

    World Bank: 2003
  • Lessons from the south: making a difference

    This webpage provides a report on the seminar for inclusive education held in India in 1998 with the recognition that practitioners from countries in the 'South' have valuable lessons to share with each other regarding experiences in inclusivity.

    Enabling Education Network: 1998
  • Hear and Say pilot project

    Hear and Say WorldWide is a world-first Hearing Health Team Education Program for establishing multi-disciplinary healthcare teams and a clinical professional training program to prevent, identify and treat hearing loss in babies and young children in selected international destinations.

    Hear and Say: 2009
  • Embracing diversity: toolkit for creating inclusive, learning-friendly environments

    This toolkit offers a holistic, practical perspective on how schools and classrooms can become more inclusive and learning-friendly.

    UNESCO: 2004
  • Manual on rights-based education: global human rights requirements made simple

    This manual aims to translate globally-accepted human rights standards into guidelines for national education strategies.

    UNESCO: 2004
  • Disability, education and development

    Education is precious for people with disability in the developing world, the vast majority of whom are denied it as a matter of course. This chapter presents some of the findings of DFID's 'Disability Knowledge and Research Programme,' provides a definition of what inclusive education is and why it is important for disabled people and for a human-rights-based approach to development.

    Disability KaR: 2009
  • Education for all: the cost of accessibility

    The goal of Education for All (EFA) is to provide universal access to primary education throughout the world. To accomplish this goal, as many as 10 million classrooms will be built in developing countries by 2015. A key objective of the program is to ensure that no child is denied access to education because of disability.

    World Bank: 2006
  • Situational analysis & assessment of education for children with disabilities

    This paper's broad objectives were to assess and analyse the major shortfalls in existing design and implementation process of education programs for disabled children, involving Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam and the Republic of South Africa.

    Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID): June 2005