Leave no girl with disabilities behind: Ensuring efforts to advance gender equality in education are disability-inclusive

Leave no girl with disabilities behind: Ensuring efforts to advance gender equality in education are disability-inclusive

Leave no girl with disabilities behind: Ensuring efforts to advance gender equality in education are disability-inclusive

This advocacy brief (dated April 2021) is produced by a charity that supports disabled people and an initiative of the United Nation. It sets out Sustainable Development Goals 4 (ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all) and 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) and cross-references them with the UNCRPD and UNCRC, noting the need for these to be considered in tandem. The authors highlight the paucity of reliable data, though identify the cumulative challenges faced by girls with a disability, living in a rural area in a developing country. The brief sets out Leonard Cheshire’s Inclusive Education Model and includes case studies of initiatives designed to reduce stigma. It references the likely impact of COVID on this cohort and calls for this crisis to be seen as an opportunity to “build back equal”. It ends with a series of calls to action to specific international summits, and a list of recommendations aimed at policy makers.

UN Girls’ Education Initiative and Leonard Cheshire

https://www.ungei.org/publication/leave-no-girl-with-disabilities-behind

UN Girls’ Education Initiative and Leonard Cheshire

Apr 2021

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https://www.ungei.org/publication/leave-no-girl-with-disabilities-behind