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The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of best practices in inclusive education, inform stakeholders of the current status of inclusive education in the region, describe the contextual factors which affect program implementation, and make recommendations of practical start-up steps for inclusive education programs. The ultimate purpose of this report is to improve programming efforts in inclusive education in the Europe and Eurasia region.
This study presents an overview of the international best practices in the provision of inclusive education as well as offers clear…
A video from UAFA emphasizing the importance of early intervention.
In this video from United Aid for Azerbaijan, several experts and public officials discuss the importance of deinstitutionalization. The video covers the extreme problems of neglect in institutions and discusses attempts by UAFA to re-integrate children with families. The video discusses how Azerbaijan has called in foreign experts to help implement projects to improve the condition of children in institutional care.
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of the first periodic report of Azerbaijan under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at its 125th and 126th meetings, held on 1 and 2 April 2014, respectively. The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of children and institutionalisation are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review…
In this paper from the Centre for Social Policy Development, United Aid for Azerbaijan, Gwendolyn Burchell asks “How can the obligations of the ‘State Programme on Deinstitutionalization and Alternative Community-Based Services’ be better met through education reform?” The Government of Azerbaijan has enacted a number of State Programmes related to Inclusive Education, DeInstitutionalization and Economic Development. The author argues that these commitments urgently need a coordinated and strategic vision in order to succeed.
Prior to the State…
The present analysis has been developed by the UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States as a discussion paper for the 2nd Child Protection Forum on Building and Reforming Child Care Systems. It relied heavily on an independent evaluation commissioned by UNICEF in 2007 which was carried out by Oxford Policy Management and is also informed by the official submissions of Governments on recent changes in child care reform.
The countries of Central Asia and Azerbaijan reviewed in this analysis (…