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Every Learner Matters : Unpacking the Learning Crisis for Children With Disabilities
World Bank Group - 2019
, 'Every Learner Matters' argues that for children with disabilities, the focus needs to shift from school access to … prioritizing learning. This paper examines education systems and the importance of measuring learning achievement for children with … to ensure participation for children with disabilities in high-stakes regional and international assessments, which guide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646443
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Policy Recommendations on Accelerating Inclusive Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh
World Bank Group - 2021
Disability-inclusive development directly responds to the World Bank's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. Disability and poverty are inherently linked, with persons with disabilities having poorer health outcomes; lower education achievements; less economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700673
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Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Management : Assessment in the Caribbean Region
World Bank Group - 2022
Persons with disabilities make up just one of many groups in society that are systematically marginalized and disadvantaged. Gender, ethnic and religious diversity, poverty, age, homelessness, levels of education and literacy, gender preference and diversity, and geographic isolation are just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209195
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Disability Inclusion in Nigeria : A Rapid Assessment
World Bank Group - 2020
According to the World Health Organization, in 2018, about 29 million of the 195 million people who comprise Nigeria's national population were living with a disability. Data from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey reveal that an estimated 7 percent of household members above the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647279
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Pivoting to Inclusion : Leveraging Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis for Learners with Disabilities
World Bank Group - 2020
inclusive of all and are sufficiently differentiated to meet the specific needs of children with disabilities. The issues paper …
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Climate Change and Disability Inclusion in Uzbekistan
World Bank Group - 2023
The impacts of climate change will be unevenly felt within and across countries partly due to social and economic inequalities. Persons with disabilities represent 16 percent of the global population and face widespread forms of social and economic marginalization yet have received little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454255
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South Africa : Social Assistance Programs and Systems Review
World Bank Group - 2021
Despite being an upper middle income country, South Africa's high inequality and the long-lasting legacies of apartheid mean that the country is faced with numerous development challenges, many of which are characteristic of countries with much lower incomes. This paper focuses on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700692
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Sierra Leone Public Expenditure Review 2021 : Social Assistance Program
World Bank Group - 2021
Social protection is a critical policy instrument in Sierra Leone to address the multiple risks and vulnerabilities faced by citizens. Through the Medium-term National Development Plan for 2019-2023, the government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) stated its aim to expand social assistance to cover thirty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700712
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South Africa Social Assistance Programs and Systems Review : Policy Brief
World Bank Group - 2021
South Africa's social assistance system represents a major intervention by government in addressing the deprivation amongst the country's population. The system is extensive in terms of both the number of people it covers, directly and indirectly, as well as in terms of the amount of scarce...
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