Inclusive education
Learn what we do for inclusive education
Reaching the most marginalized children with inclusive education is among the top priorities of UNICEF in Uzbekistan.
Despite impressive results, inequalities are still present particularly for children at pre-primary education in rural areas, and children with disabilities. While focusing on education quality, UNICEF pays attention to the solutions needed to reach the last mile, which is the most difficult part to achieve.
Based on UNICEF Guidelines embracing Universal Design for school buildings, UNICEF further supported the accessibility design of school infrastructure for children with disabilities whit the rehabilitation of a regular school in Tashkent. That serves as a model for further scale up.
Within Ishonch 2030 project UNICEF has been working with the Government to ensure accessibility and introduce inclusive technologies in fifty model schools across the country.
This process has been informing the revision of current standards on school construction and equipment supporting the Ministry of Preschool and School Education to achieve its commitment to ensure accessibility of 20% of all new and reconstructed schools by 2027.
UNICEF and the Ministry of Preschool and School Education launched the modelling of inclusive schools where new guidelines, standards/requirements and mechanisms for inclusive education will be tested to inform development of new legislation and policies to raise inclusive quality learning to higher standard. These schools of excellence will be expanded to research, demonstrate, explore, and disseminate good practice.