Including children with disabilities into Basic Education With funding from Japan Social Development Fund through through World Bank Grant No. TF

Malawi Schools Large number of learnersLearning 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 2013  Campaign for Inclusive Education: Led by PODCAM  School Block Grants:  Teacher development  Action Learning  School Improvement programmes  Capacity development of implementing agencies  EMIS  Policy dialogue

Activities  Drafting a Results Based Action Plan for the project  Dissemination of Situation analysis findings in school catchment area  In-service Training of teachers in Salima district  Consultative 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 pedagogy  Guidelines for adaptations in tests and examinations  Guidelines for ‘barrier free schools’  Parent training manual; community training manual  Pilot EMIS database

What is Inclusive Education?

All different, all equal

Thank you