Global education is in crisis, with reduced funding, vast numbers of children out of school, and unsatisfactory learning outcomes. Current investments often target either strengthening of general education systems, or education for learners with disabilities, but rarely link the two. This Wilton Park Dialogue will explore how to effectively include learners with disabilities into mainstream education.
Building on the 2025 Global Disability Summit in Berlin, this Dialogue seeks to bring world leading academics, industry representatives, international organisations, governments, research institutes, and representatives of organisations of persons with disabilities together to share evidence on how to include children with disabilities into education systems. The meeting will serve as a knowledge exchange between academics, experts and policy makers and will assess current evidence, existing gaps and how to fill them. It aims to produce a road map to enable donors, international organisations and policymakers to turn research into action to better implement inclusive education policies which reach more learners with disabilities.
The scope will cover pre-primary / early childhood development through to education provision at primary and secondary level, including emergency and conflict contexts and aims to bridge the gaps between the disability sector and education partners.
Image description: Akai, a young boy supported under an Inclusive Futures inclusive education project in Kalobeyei refugee settlement in northern Kenya, uses his wheelchair at school.
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