Including children with disabilities

into Basic Education

With funding from Japan Social Development Fund through

through World Bank Grant No. TF 099386

Malawi SchoolsLarge number of learners Learning under trees

Malawi Schools

Inaccessible classrooms Can you guess what this is?

Project Overview Catchment area: 3 districts – Salima, Mchinji,

Lilongwe Multi - sectoral partnership: FEDOMA,

PODCAM and MOEST Project duration: 3 years starting in 2012

Project components Situation analysis: Completed in September 2013Campaign for Inclusive Education: Led by PODCAMSchool Block Grants:

Teacher development Action Learning School Improvement programmes

Capacity development of implementing agenciesEMISPolicy dialogue

ActivitiesDrafting a Results Based Action Plan for

the projectDissemination of Situation analysis

findings in school catchment areaIn-service Training of teachers in Salima

districtConsultative workshops with Special

Needs Teachers Consultative workshops with DPOs

In-service training for teachers in

Salima

Using participatory approaches

More group work, less ‘lectures;

Workshops can be fun!

Consultative workshops

Deliverables from the project

Guidelines for identification of children with disabilities

Guidelines on inclusive pedagogyGuidelines for adaptations in tests and

examinationsGuidelines for ‘barrier free schools’Parent training manual; community training

manualPilot EMIS database

What is Inclusive Education?

All different, all equal

Thank you