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Posted on 11 May 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Capacity Building and Leadership, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Education, Families, Jobs & Internships, Latin America & Caribbean, Opportunities | Tags: authorities, bolivia, capacity builder, disabled children, Education, El Alto, Families, inclusive education, intellectual disabilities, mutual respect, NGO, RC, Ricerca y Cooperazione, social inclusion, teachers |
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Capacity Builder in Intellectual Disabilities-Ricerca y Cooperazione, El Alto, Bolivia.
Ricerca y Cooperazione (RC) is an Italian based NGO, with an established development programme in Bolivia, mainly in the area of education for children and youth. Recognising the need for greater inclusion of disabled children in mainstream education, it is implementing an EU funded [...]
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Posted on 16 April 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Arts, Call for Nominations or Applications, Capacity Building and Leadership, Children, Education and Training Opportunities, Families, Funding, Media & Journalism, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Women, technology, youth | Tags: Africa, APC, children parents, children with disabilites, communication technology, computer, digital storytelling, English, family, french, ict, information, multimedia, people with disabilities, persons with disabilities, Portuguese, SADPD, Secretariat of the African Decade on Persons with Disabilities, sign language, software, South Africa, storytelling, Take Back the Tech, Women, Women's Net, workshop, youth, youth with disabilities |
The Secretariat of the African Decade for Persons with Disabilities (SADPD)
APC-Africa-Women and Women’sNet
invite you to
Submit an application to participate in a Digital Storytelling Project
Application DUE 3 May 2009
Workshop dates 8 -12 June 2009
“It’s in the telling of our stories that we discover how much of our experiences and learning we have in common with [...]
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Posted on 23 March 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Children, Deaf, Funding, Latin America & Caribbean, Opportunities, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: Bangladesh, bolivia, colombia, Deaf Child World Wide, deaf children, developing countries, Ecuador, Kenya, Latin America, Nepal, Peru, SGP, Small grants program, small grants programme, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda |
GLOBAL: Small grants programme for deaf children
Since 2002, Deaf Child Worldwide has supported organisations working to help deaf children overcome the barriers that contribute to their poverty and isolation.
Round 8 of Deaf Child Worldwide’s Small Grants Programme (SGP) opens on 19 March 2009 and ends 30 May 2009.
The SGP supports projects which show [...]
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Posted on 24 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Education, HIV/AIDS, Jobs & Internships, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Opportunities, Poverty | Tags: academic institutions, Africa, Catalytic Fund, children with disabilities, civil society groups, disability, education for all, education sector, education specialist, EFA, Fast Track Initiative, fti, gender, governments, HIV/AIDS, job, job opportunity, job post, low-income countries, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty, primary education, rural, students with disabilities, UNICEF, universal primary completion, urban, vulnerable children, World Bank |
ob # 090252
Job Title Education Spec.
Job Family Education
Location: Washington, DC
Appointment International Hire
Job Posted 17-Feb-2009
Closing Date 03-Mar-2009
Language Requirements
English [Essential]
Appointment Type Term (Duration: 2 yrs)
Background / General description
THIS IS A 2 YEAR TERM POSITION WITH POSSIBLE EXTENSION TO 3 YEARS.
To apply go to http://extjobs.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64273552&piPK=64273556&theSitePK=1058433&JobNo=090252&order=descending&sortBy=job-req-num&location=ALL&menuPK=64262364
The Fast Track Initiative (FTI) is a global partnership [...]
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Posted on 24 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Events and Conferences, Families, Opportunities | Tags: Children, children with disabilities, children with multiple disabilities, children with special needs, Families, HealthProm, international conference, Kyrgyzstan, labor, Multiple Disabilities, parents of disabled children, Shoola Kol, social development |
International conference 7-9 April 2009
[Note application deadline March 6, 2009.]
Dear colleagues!
The Association of Parents of Disabled Children of Bishkek and the Public Association “Shoola Kol” in partnership with HealthProm UK-based charity and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development organizes the 3-day International conference «Innovative approaches to working with children with special needs and their [...]
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Posted on 23 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Funding, Health, Human Rights, Opportunities, Slavery & Trafficking, Violence, Women, youth | Tags: child labor, child marriage, child servitude, d'esclavage, debt bondage, financial assistance, food, forced marriage, funds, Human Rights, human trafficking, humanitarian assistance, legal assistance, medical aid, physical abuse, programs, project grants, projects, psychological aid, rehabilitation centers, sale of wives, serfdom, sexual abuse, sexual slavery, shelter, slavery, street children, Trust Fund, United Nations, vocational training, wife selling |
Subject: Call for application: Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery; Appel à candidature: Fonds de contributions volontaires sur les formes contemporaines d’esclavage.
English; French
[Note to We Can Do readers: Organizations serving people with disabilities who have been affected by human trafficking, sexual slavery, child labor, forced marriage, or other forms of contemporary slavery [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Capacity Building and Leadership, Children, Education and Training Opportunities, Events and Conferences, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Opportunities, Women, youth | Tags: advocacy, child soldiers, classism, community service, Conflict Resolution, debates, educaiton, English, environment, forum, fund raising, fundraising, gender discrimination, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, human rights problems, hunger, intergenerational forum, international leadership forum, leadership, litigation, media, Millennium Development Goals, peace education, programs, racism, training, transformation, UNESCO, universal declaration of human rights, university of connecticut, use of media, youth |
International Leadership Forum Announcement – Call for Applications
[Note to We Can Do readers: This opportunity is not targeted at disability advocates, but young leaders with an interest in disability-related advocacy may wish to read the criteria below and consider whether their interests may usefully intersect.]
The UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights at the [...]
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Posted on 15 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Arts, Call for Audio & Visual Materials, Children, Events and Conferences, Opportunities, South Asian Region | Tags: Children, children with disabilities, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, NOWPDP, organizations, Pakistan, schools |
The Network of Organizations Working for People with Disabilities in Pakistan (NOWPDP) is sponsoring a national art competition for children with disabilities aged 12 to 16. The age limit is waived for participants with mental disabilities. All member and non-member schools are invited to participate. The competition will be held on the [...]
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Posted on 10 February 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Families, Inclusion, Opportunities, Poverty | Tags: adults with disabilities, adults with intellectual disabilities, Call for Papers, children with disabilities, children with intellectual disabilities, deprivation, disadvantage, Eric Emerson, Families, inequality, inequity, intellectual disabilities, Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, low-income countries, middle-income countries, Penny Crino, policies, Poverty, research, social exclusion, Susan Parish |
The Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability is seeking submissions for a special issue of their publication that will examine poverty, deprivation, social exclusion and disadvantage. The particular focus of this issue will be on understanding the role that poverty and social deprivation play in shaping the life chances of children and adults with intellectual [...]
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Posted on 10 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Deaf, Health, Resources, Women | Tags: a Health Handbook, deaf children, helping children who are deaf, Hesperian Foundation, manual de salud, Mujeres con Discapacidades, ninos sordos, Spanish web site, women with disabilities |
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Hesperian announces two new titles in Spanish and a spiffy new Spanish Web Site:
Un Manual de salud para mujeres con dispacidad, the Spanish version of A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities, arrived to our offices today and we are very excited to have this wonderful material now available in Spanish. Un manual [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Education, Opportunities | Tags: Children, Call for Papers, EENET, inclusive education, higher education, newsletter, articles, young people, life-long learning, call for articles, informal, non-formal, alternative, pre-school, vocational |
Enabling Education Network (EENET) is looking for articles for the 2009 issue of its newsletter “Enabling Education”. (First draft and article ideas should be submitted by January 30, 2009.) The theme of the newsletter is life-long learning. If you could write an article about your experiences of inclusive education in relation to informal, non-formal, [...]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Education, Employment, Events and Conferences, Inclusion, Middle East and North Africa, Opportunities | Tags: disability, Education, people with disabilities, research, Poverty, leaders, micro-enterprise, poverty reduction, independence, programs, Qatar, symposia, opportunity, Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, Shafallah, special needs, International Shafallah Forum, Doha, achieving independence, labor, labor practices, unfair labor practices, unfair practices, innovative technologies, inclusive societies, inclusive society, corporate sector, workforce, exhibits, roundtable discussions, paper presentations, Valerie Karr |
Note that the deadline to submit abstracts is January 23, 2009, at 5 pm EST.
On behalf of the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, I would like to extend a warm invitation for you to submit abstracts for the 4th Annual International Shafallah Forum in Doha, Qatar from April 20th – April 22nd , [...]
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Posted on 25 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Education, News, Opportunities, Resources | Tags: children with disabilities, computers, Education, G1G1, Give one get one, laptops, OLPC, One Laptop per child, students with disabilities, XO laptop, XO laptops |
They’re simple, rugged, and low-cost. And their more ardent fans think they can transform the world–one educated child at a time. Since the first XO laptops rolled off the assembly line in November 2006, hundreds of thousands of children in low-income countries have been using them in the classroom and at home. [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, Inclusion, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities | Tags: accessible education, Bac Kan, disability, disabled students, education access, Handicap International, Handicap International France, inclusive education, Inclusive Education National Plan, job post, project manager, rights-based inclusive education, Save the Children Sweden, special education, students with disabilities, Vietnam |
Handicap International IS LOOKING FOR Project Manager Inclusive Education in Bac Kan province, Vietnam.
Posting date: 1st February 2009 Length of the assignment : 2 years
Closing date for application : 21/12/2008 (December 21, 2008)
Handicap International is an international organisation specialised in the field of disability. Non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and non-profit-making, it works alongside people with [...]
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Posted on 12 November 2008. Filed under: Children, Education, Inclusion, Resources | Tags: accessible education, children with disabilities, developing countries, Education, EENET, Enabling Education Network, Flagship, inclusive education, students with disabilities, UNESCO, United nations educational scientific and cultural orga |
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has created a Flagship devoted to improving the reach and quality of inclusive education for students with disabilities in developing countries. As many as 90 percent of children with disabilities in developing countries are denied the opportunity to obtain an education. The Flagship program [...]
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Posted on 2 November 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Awards & Honors, Call for Nominations or Applications, Children, Opportunities, Violence, Women, youth | Tags: advocacy, agency, catalyst, Children, Conflict Resolution, development, durable peace, mediators, mobilizing communities, nominations, organisation, organization, Pax Net, Peace and Conflict, peace prize, peacebuilding, relief, Steve Williams, Women, World Vision, youth |
World Vision International Peace Prize
[It is my hope that We Can Do readers will consider whether they might know an individual with disabilities, or a disability-oriented organization, that might qualify for the World Vision International Peace Prize. The winning organization will receive $5,000; the winning individual will receive $1,000. The deadline to submit nominations [...]
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Posted on 26 September 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, HIV/AIDS, Health, Inclusion, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), News, Opinion, Policy & Legislation | Tags: child mortality, developing countries, Education, education for all, EFA, empowering women, gender equity, global cooperation, HIV/AIDS, hunger, Include Everybody, malaria, maternal health, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, people with disabilities, Poverty, sustainable environment, universal primary education |
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
End poverty and hunger. Put all children in school. Empower women. Stop children from dying. Keep pregnant and birthing mothers healthy. Fight AIDS, malaria, and other disease. Create a sustainable environment. And promote global cooperation. These are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–an important [...]
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Posted on 24 September 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Inclusion, Reports, Resources, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, youth | Tags: Tanzania, Uganda, EENET, Enabling Education Network, inclusive education, Braille, Young voices, Atlas Alliance, Kiswahili, attitude |
A new publication is available from the Enabling Education Network (EENET). It is called “Young Voices: Young people’s views of inclusive education” (PDF format, 905 Kb).
This easy-to-read A5 booklet contains photographs and drawings taken by disabled and non-disabled students in Uganda and Tanzania, along with quotes from them about what they think makes a school inclusive. [...]
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Posted on 12 September 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Arts, Call for Audio & Visual Materials, Call for Nominations or Applications, Call for Papers, Children, Cross-Disability, News, Opportunities, South Asian Region | Tags: art competition, children with disabilities, competitions, dancing competition, essay competition, events, News, painting competition, poster competition, singing competition, Sri Lanka, writing competition |
The Saviya Development Foundation (SDF) will implement various programmes aiming at disabled children in Galle, Matara and Hambantota districts.
Saviya Athvela Vocational Training Center in Kamburugamuva facilitates male and female students with physical impairment and has made arrangements to obtain the accreditation of tertiary and vocational education commission for the one year courses of repairing [...]
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Posted on 5 September 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Children, Cognitive Impairments, Education, Inclusion, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: adviser, inclusive education, intellectual disabilities, International service, Mali |
Inclusive education adviser, with a focus on intellectually disabled children
Institut d’Education Populaire (IEP), Kati, Mali
IEP is a collective of community educators working to develop alternative approaches in curriculum, methodology and materials for grassroots education in Mali. Long before inclusive education became official government policy in Mali, IEP’s CIWARA Community School was including disabled children [...]
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Posted on 3 September 2008. Filed under: Children, Cognitive Impairments, HIV/AIDS, Health, Human Rights, Latin America & Caribbean, News, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: autism, autistic, Being an Un-Person, canada, China, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, DAA, Disability Awareness Action, Disability Lib, disability rights, El Salvador, HIV, Human Rights, Inclusion, India, Kampala, Mexico, Uganda, UNCRPD |
Our Rights – issue 2, August 2008
DAA’s newsletter for Disability Lib.
In the interest of solidarity, this newsletter is sent around by email to disabled people and their organisations across the world, and we invite you to forward it freely. We have provided links to internet sites, web pages and video clips, but [...]
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Posted on 27 August 2008. Filed under: Children, Cross-Disability, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Families, Funding, Human Rights, News, Policy & Legislation, youth | Tags: ARDI, Asian Development Bank, Association of Parents of Disabled Children, Azat Israilov, Big Lottery Fund, children with disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disabled children, Edward Vinter, EFCA, Employment, Eurasia Foundation in Central Asia, Health Prom, HealthProm, Ishenkul Boldzhurova, Japan, Japanese agency for international cooperation, JICA, Kyrgyzstan, law, Minister of labour and social development, Ministry of Labour and Social Development, parents, people with disabilities, Rehabilitation, Seinep Dyikanbaeva, Shoola Kol, Tatyana Buynovskaja, Uktomkhan Abdullaeva, UN, United Nations, World Bank |
The following newsletter was sent to We Can Do from Kyrgyzstan–thanks to Azat Israilov for passing this on. This contains news about projects for people with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan; a new law protecting the rights of people with disabilities; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and announcements for a couple of [...]
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Posted on 26 August 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Education and Training Opportunities, Human Rights, Opportunities | Tags: Children, children's rights, Human Rights, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, IUKB, masters of advanced studies in children's rights, University of Fribourg |
Found in a recent issue of the Disabled Peoples International electronic newsletter:
“Applicants are needed for the 2009-2010 Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights (MCR), an interdisciplinary part-time postgraduate programme in children’s rights, which is jointly organized by the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Sion and the University of Fribourg, both in Switzerland.
Program [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2008. Filed under: Academic Papers and Research, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Reports, Violence, Women, youth | Tags: a gender and disability perspective, disabled girls, Education, education for all, girl's education, girls, girls with disabilities, students with disabilities, Violence |
A report entitled Education for All: a gender and disability perspective (PDF format, 151 Kb) discusses what we don’t know about girls with disabilities in relation to education, and what ought to be done about it.
Readers familiar with gender issues within education know that, in many countries, girls are still more likely to [...]
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Posted on 19 August 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Nominations or Applications, Children, Deaf, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, Inclusion, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, signed languages | Tags: Consultant, deaf children, deaf education, intergenerational deaf education outreach project, international consultant, Japan Social Development Fund, job post, national consultant, outreach, projtect, Vietnam, World Bank |
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Request for Expressions of Interest; International Consultant; National Consultant; Bottom of Page
Please note that this post gives information on two potential consulting positions: one for an international-level consultant for 15 days, the other for a national-level consultant for 30 days. Both consultants will work together for part of the project, [...]
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Posted on 19 August 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Deaf, Families, Inclusion, Latin America & Caribbean, Resources, signed languages | Tags: Ayudar a los niños sordos, free books, helping children who are deaf, Hesperian Foundation |
BILINGUAL POST in English and Spanish; bilingual articulo en ingles y español. (¡Ojala que mi español es bastante claro!)
The Hesperian Foundation has released its book entitled Helping Children Who Are Deaf in Spanish for the first time. It can be downloaded in PDF format for free, one chapter at a time.
El “Hesperian Foundation” [...]
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Posted on 16 July 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Papers, Children, Cross-Disability, Health, Opportunities, Violence | Tags: alana officer, Call for Papers, child injury, Children, disability, Violence, WHO Bulletin, World Health Organization |
Dear colleagues,
The World Health Organization Bulletin will publish a special issue on
Child Injuries, Violence and Disability in May 2009.
A call has gone out for related articles, see
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/media/news/whobulletin/en/index.html
Authors are encouraged to submit papers by 1 September 2008.
Please forward this call to groups or individuals that you think may be interested.
Thanks
Alana
Alana OFFICER
Coordinator
Disability and Rehabilitation (DAR)
Department of Violence and [...]
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Posted on 14 July 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Resources, South Asian Region, youth | Tags: Children, children with disabilities, Families, India, Malaysia, PACER, Parent Center, parents, USA, Uzbekistan, website, youth with disabilities |
June 27, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Julie Holmquist 952-838-9000
julie.holmquist@PACER.org
New PACER Web site offers information, resources for children with disabilities and their parents across the globe
Parents of children with disabilities living in India, Uzbekistan and across the globe can find a new resource on the Internet.
A new PACER Web site (www.PACER.org/international) acts as a link to resources, [...]
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Posted on 14 July 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, East Asia Pacific Region, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities | Tags: australia, Cambodia, children's rights, convention on the rights of the child, general manager, international programs, job post, phnom penh, Save the Children, SCA |
POSITION: Asia with Save the Children Australia, Cambodia based
Deadline: July 25, 2008
RESPONSIBLE TO: General Manager, International Programs
LOCATION TO: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
DURATION: Two year position pending visa approvals
CONTEXT
Save the Children Australia (SCA) is a non-profit, non governmental, non sectarian organisation dedicated to upholding the rights reflected in UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). [...]
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Posted on 10 July 2008. Filed under: Case Studies, Children, Cross-Disability, Deaf, East Asia Pacific Region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Education, Inclusion, Middle East and North Africa, Resources, South Asian Region, Sub-Saharan Africa Region | Tags: India, Bangladesh, Deaf, sign language, Brazil, Peru, children with disabilities, NGOs, Education, persons with disabilities, disabled people, DPOs, China, Nepal, Vietnam, people with disabilities, EENET, Enabling Education Network, inclusive education, Case Studies, best practice, serbia, Mongolia, Morocco, Somalia, Western Balkans, Tajikistan, Save the Children UK, how change can happen, Kyrgyzstan, bilingual education |
Less than a decade ago, more than 100 million primary-school aged children still had never entered a classroom. Today, that number has dropped below 80 million, even though the world’s population has grown in that time. Clearly progress has been made. But children with disabilities are being left behind: one-third of the [...]
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Posted on 25 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, East Asia Pacific Region, Education, Inclusion, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, youth | Tags: Handicap International, China, job post, Community based rehabilitation, inclusive education, CBR, tibet, Consultant, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet Disabled Persons' Federation, TDPF, Lhasa, Shigatse, Chamdo |
Application deadline: July 4, 2008. Applications should be sent to hr@handicap-int.org.cn, NOT We Can Do.
TERMS of REFERENCE
Inclusive Education Consultant – Tibet Autonomous Region
1. Background Information
Handicap International (HI) has been operating in the Tibet Autonomous Region since 2000, in cooperation with the Tibet Disabled Persons’ Federation (TDPF) at regional level and the Lhasa, Shigatse [...]
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Posted on 24 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Networking Opportunities, Opportunities, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, youth | Tags: Eastern Africa, disabled children, disabled students, children with disabilities, students with disabilities, EENET, Enabling Education Network, inclusive education, Dimity Taylor, listserve, listserv, discussion group |
Dear Colleagues,
To support the growing interest in the area of Inclusive Education throughout Eastern Africa, an Eastern Africa Discussion Group was set up to help facilitate discussions, networking and information sharing on this topic. This discussion group is associated with EENET – The Enabling Education Network, which is a UK based information sharing network which [...]
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Posted on 19 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Audio & Visual Materials, Call for Papers, Children, Cross-Disability, Opportunities, youth | Tags: children with disabilities, Disability International, disability rights, disabled children, disabled peoples international, disabled youth, DPI, programs, projects, youth with disabilities |
Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI) is collecting articles related to children with disabilities for its next issue of Disability International. Disability International is an on-line magazine focused on the international disability community that publishes one or two issues each year, in English, Spanish, and French. The following kinds of submissions are welcome:
Written pieces and [...]
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Posted on 10 June 2008. Filed under: Call for Nominations or Applications, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Inclusion, Opportunities, Volunteer Opportunities, youth | Tags: UK, disabled children, children with disabilities, students with disabilities, Asia, Latin America, Africa, EENET, Enabling Education Network, inclusive education, teachers, parents, students, government officials, academics, educators |
Please note that applications should be directed to EENET, not to We Can Do; read carefully for links, email address, and instructions. The deadline is June 24, 2008.
EENET steering group: user group representatives
Background to EENET’s Steering Group
The Enabling Education Network (EENET) is a global information network that helps education practitioners and stakeholders to document [...]
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Posted on 2 June 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Events and Conferences, Inclusion, Opportunities, Reports, youth | Tags: disability, Geneva, disabled children, children with disabilities, students with disabilities, inclusive education, international conference, International Bureau of Education, International Conference on Education, ICE, the way of the future, ministers of education, minister of education |
The International Bureau of Education is holding its 48th session of the International Conference on Education (ICE) this 25 – 28 November 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme will be “Inclusive Education: the Way of the Future.”
The International Conference on Education is usually predominantly tailored for the needs of Ministers of Education who represent [...]
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Posted on 11 May 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Blind, Children, Deaf, Education, Jobs & Internships, Multiple Disabilities, Opportunities | Tags: blind with multiple disabilities, Braille literacy, deafblind, education programs, family, Hilton/Perkins program, leadership skills, perkins international program, Perkins school for the blind, professionals, teachers |
Perkins School for the Blind
Job Description
Job Title: Director
Program: Perkins International Program
Supervisor: President
Location: Watertown Campus and Frequent Traveling
The following statements describe the principal duties to [...]
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Posted on 1 May 2008. Filed under: Children, Deaf, Families, Resources | Tags: deaf child worldwide, deaf children, families of deaf children, family friendly working with deaf children and their co, sofia garavito |
Deaf Child Worldwide News Release
For release: Thursday 1 May 2008
Deaf Child Worldwide launches Family Friendly resource
Deaf Child Worldwide, the only UK-based international development agency dedicated to enabling deaf children to overcome poverty and isolation, has launched a new action learning resource to help organisations working with deaf children and families throughout the world.
‘Family Friendly [...]
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Posted on 21 April 2008. Filed under: Children, Education, Human Rights, News, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Women | Tags: Adhoc IDC, body blows, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, dcdd, disability advocate, disability clubs, disability rights, disabled women, disabled women support organisation, dutch coalition on disability and development, DWSO, frank mulcahy, gladys charowa, harare, in the thick of zimbabwe's current turmoil, investing in education for children with disabilities i, new internationalist, reply to a statement for discussion, stroke, women with disabilities face hellish prejudice hunger a, Zimbabwe |
The following email was recently circulated on the AdHoc_IDC listserv, an email discussion group devoted to disability rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as a tribute to fellow listserv member and disability rights advocate, Gladys Charowa.
Hi folks,
The vast majority of you will have seen many posts here from [...]
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Enabling Education Network Desires Feedback for Website Redesign
Posted on 5 February 2009. Filed under: Announcements, Call for Comments or Information, Children, Cross-Disability, Education, Inclusion, Opportunities | Tags: Asia, children with disabilities, disability, disabled children, disabled students, Eastern Africa, EENET, EENET website redesign, Enabling Education Network, feedback, organizing documents, redesign, students with disabilities, website |
[Note to We Can Do readers: For years, people in the field of disability inclusive education have turned to the Enabling Education Network (EENET) for information, resources, and opportunities for debate. EENET has disseminated the following announcement, and is seeking responses by the end of February 2009.]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This year EENET is going to redesign its [...]