The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion

A Flagship under the Education for All Programme

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Community Based Rehabilitation

The first Asia-Pacific CBR congress was held in Bangkok, Thailand (18-20 February 2009). There were over 700 participants (see a photo). Today CBR has to do much with education, see the CBR-matrix. CBR implementors have established networks for partnerships.

Kenneth Eklindh (UNESCO) gave a key note presentation "Education for all - an example of partnerships".

More about CBR.

Staff changes in secretariat

Ms. Mari Koistinen (Fidida) returned to and Ms. Jill Van den Brule left the secretariat.

48th session of the International Conference on Education, Geneva, 25-28 November 2008

The theme of the 48th session of the ICE was “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future”. It was organized by the International Bureau of Education (IBE) and the UNESCO. Flagship was involved the arrangements of side event 7. More information from UNESCO WWW-site.

Working documents in multiple languages.

Workshops and presentations are here.

Side events and presentations are here.

Global action week 21-27 April 2008

UNESCO information from here.

Jyväskylän tapahtuman tiedote ja ohjelma.

E-FLAG NEWS

Read more about flagship activities in 2007 from here.

A workshop in Cambodia

A regional workshop in Asia on implementing inclusive policies for assessing achievements towards EFA will be held in January 16-18, 2008. Expected participants will be UNESCO officers from Headquarters, Bangkok Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Phnom Penh, EFA Flagship Secretariat, around 25 Member States from 16 Asian Countries, Senior Education Officials of the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Education Donor Agencies (UNICEF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank) and Non-Governmental Organizations. More information and press release.

Global Monitoring Report 2008

Andrea Valentini, working with the Flagship Secretariat at UNESCO in Paris has gone through the recently published Global Monitoring Report 2008, entitled “Education for All: will we make it?” looking for interesting notes on inclusion and disabilities. Read more.

The contents of this web-site were developed under a support from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the Flagship initiative "The right to  education for persons with disabilities: Towards inclusion" of UNESCO advancing the Education For All programme. The contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the UNESCO, MFA, University of Jyväskylä, and FIDIDA, and you should not assume endorsements.

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"The right to education for persons with disabilities: Towards inclusion"
(Edited 20 March 2009)