Inclusive Education for Palestinian Children with Disabilities

This project aims to promote the inclusion and access of girls and boys with disabilities to gender and disability responsive inclusive education through targeted interventions. Project activities include: (1) increasing equitable access to safe and protected inclusive education by girls and boys with disabilities through gender positive practices; (2) improving the provision of equitable and quality education for girls and boys with disabilities and parents of girls and boys with disabilities teachers education staff and other key community members; and (3) championing of non-traditional gender and disability-inclusive behaviour outside the “ideal man box” and “ideal woman box” thus supporting an enabling environment for girls and boys with disability education.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased capacity and coordination among girls boys women and men including those with disabilities and education actors to support out-of-school children’s access to education; (2) improved capacity of parents and education partners and improved coordination between them and with protection actors on the protection and safeguarding of girls and boys with disabilities; (3) enhanced capacity and coordination of education actors to provide gender and disability responsive formal and non-formal education services; and (4) increased ability of parents of girls and boys with disabilities teachers education staff and other key community members to recognize and critically reflect on their stereotypes related to gender and disability and respond to these stereotypes.