To celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities this year, the International Disability Alliance (IDA), the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) and Global Campaign for Education (GCE) are organizing a webinar titled ‘Disability Inclusive Education: A Call to Action to Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education’. This will be held on Wednesday, December 6 from 3.00 – 4.30 pm CET/ 8.00-9.30 am EST.
The webinar builds on the Call to Action for Transforming Education for Disability Inclusion which was released by IDA, IDDC, and GCE at the Transforming Education Summit in 2022 towards the implementation of SDG 4 on education. This webinar will engage IDA, IDDC and GCE members, partners and other stakeholders around questions of how the call to action can contribute to the effective protection of the right to education for all learners with disabilities and how civil society organisations can influence their governments, as well as multilateral institutions, and other national and international education stakeholders from around the globe, to endorse the call to action.
Link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j0uTcr8GQ-Ox1VermMYgWg
The webinar will aim to achieve the following specific objectives:
- Engage all stakeholders with the urgency, content and policy importance of endorsing and supporting Disability Inclusive Education: A Call to Action to Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education.
- Provide evidence of how the lack of sustainable financing for disability inclusive education affects people with disabilities’ political, economic, social and cultural rights and compromises the achievement of SDG 4 and the whole SDG agenda.
- Discuss how civil society organisations all across the globe can advocate for the endorsement of Disability Inclusive Education: A Call to Action to Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education and the effective protection of people with disabilities’ rights.
Speakers include:
- Chief Minister David Sengeh, Sierra Leone
- MP Mike Lake, Parliamentarian, Canada
- Dra. Amalia Gamio, Vice-Chair, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Hanna Katriina Alasuutari, World Bank
- Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, GCE Policy and Research Advisor
- Diane Richler, International Disability Alliance
- Mariana Rudge, International Disability and Development Consortium
- Jennifer Rigg, GCE - US
- Dr. Praveena Sukhraj Ely, World Blind Union & ICEVI
- Oumarou Manou Mahamadou, Conseiller technique du Président de la FOAPH et point focal Education de la FOAPH
- Nafisa Baboo, Light for the World
- Stuart Cameron, Global Partnership for Education
- Stephanie Peña, Humanity & Inclusion