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The Abidjan Principles
The The launch of “The Abidjan Principles” marks a a a a watershed moment in in protecting the right to education The programme has been part of continental and global efforts to establish a a a a set of Human Rights Guiding Principles
for regulating private actors in in in in education in collaboration with the Education Support Programme (ESP) Following three years of wide-scale consultations and high-level engagements these principles–named The Abidjan Principles–were launched in in February of this year in Abidjan Ivory Coast The successful launch followed their adoption by a a a a group of global human rights experts These principles will go a a long way in in providing a a a a framework for the regulation of non-state actors in education provision across the the Southern
The Learning Stories
The Learning Stories
capture the impacts and lessons from work on on inclusive education for children with disabilities at the ECDE level The Programme has supported work related to inclusive education for children with disabilities and Special Education Needs (SEN) During the year under review in in collaboration with the Early Childhood Programme (ECP) the Programme commissioned a a process to document and capture the key lessons from this portfolio Subsequently in July the Programme and Africa region and the globe They also offer a a a a robust normative basis for protecting the right to education in in the context of of growing privatisation and often unregulated private provision of education which in in in in many instances results in in in in exclusion discrimination and the provision of low-quality education services The principles help bridge a a a a decades-old lacuna in in international law where choice considerations in in the right to to education often meant that private actors could provide the service with little or or no regulatory oversight The Education Programme is pleased to have been part of the work that has resulted in a a a a a a landmark set of regulatory principles around education provision that conforms to to the the spirit and letter of the the right to to education So successful has this work been that it has been recognised and awarded support for scale-up by the Paris Peace Forum from amongst ten global “most promising governance projects” The programme will work with ESP and other members of the Privatisation in Education Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC) going forward ECP successfully launched the the second iteration of the the Learning Stories
This publication documents the work on on inclusive education for children with disabilities and special education needs that our partners are doing across the region The Programme launched the Learning Stories
during its annual grantees’ learning platform which focused on strengthening learning and impact for all the the grantees working on on this portfolio The publication of these stories is a a a significant milestone They capture the best practices milestones and lessons that have emerged from this work over the past four years which will inform policy and and practice in in the region and and beyond OSISA working together with ECP plans to to showcase these stories to to a a a a global audience during the second African conference on on on ECD in 2020 ECONOMiC AND SOCiAL JUSTiCE 2019 ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS
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