Giving access to education to displaced learners with disabilities

Despite the challenges and barriers experienced by displaced learners with disabilities and the evident need for further human and financial resources, inclusive education in crisis contexts is possible.

One of the barriers to making progress on protecting and including people with disabilities in emergency response is the fear that inclusion is ‘too difficult’ in a crisis – and thus no action is taken [...] Committing to inclusion is [...] about allowing the principles of inclusion to inform all work, asking who is currently excluded from learning and participation and what all of us can do to improve the situation.

An article written by Helen Pinnock and Marian Hodgkin in Forced Migration Review, July 2010, Iss. 35, pp.34-35