- Vision
The new IEAP 2024-2028 builds on the achievements of the previous IEAP and has the vision to provide inclusive quality education for persons with disabilities and special learning needs to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes so they develop their full potential and meaningfully participate in the development of society.
- Purpose
Cambodia acknowledges that inclusive education means including students with disabilities in a mainstream school environment. In many countries today, children with disabilities attend regular schools but follow an adapted curriculum. Moving toward a more inclusive model (students with disabilities following an inclusive curriculum alongside students without disabilities) is a long-term process. It is an approach that transforms the education system, including its structure, policies, practices and human resources, to accommodate all learners in mainstream education by addressing and responding to learners’ diverse needs.
The IEAP 2024-2028 aims to provide a road map, strategies and key priority actions for increasing enrolment and promoting equitable access to inclusive, quality education for persons with disabilities, including children, adolescents and youth with disabilities. This includes defining and maintaining standards for inclusiveness, adaptation and modification of curriculum content, teaching and learning materials, pedagogy, and environment to ensure access to and participation in quality inclusive education.
- Scope
The IEAP 2024-2028 aims to provide education services for individuals with all disabilities, including children, adolescents and youth with disabilities. This plan aims to ensure that all children have access to high-quality, inclusive education services that span from early childhood education to higher general education and technical vocational education training through formal and informal education systems.
- Strategies
The IEAP 2024-2028 has been formulated based on policy recommendations suggested from recent policy analysis and research on inclusive education in Cambodia, and a wide range of consultations with relevant stakeholders, from national and subnational government institutions, to development partners and parents of, and children with and without disabilities. The IEAP adopts the following strategies:
· Strategy 1 : Develop regulatory frameworks and enabling environments conducive to promoting inclusive education.
· Strategy 2 : Develop a robust data and information collection system to identify children with disabilities by cooperation with relevant national institutions and stakeholders.
· Strategy 3 :Ensure access to inclusive quality education for persons with disabilities, including children and adolescents with disabilities.
· Strategy 4 : Ensure quality inclusive education for children with disabilities and special learning needs.
· Strategy 5 : Develop country-based universal design standards for school buildings, accessible school infrastructure and sanitation facilities..
· Strategy 6 : Leverage resources and diversified budget to support vulnerable families with children with disabilities and special learning needs.
· Strategy 7 : Develop capacity building for teachers and the school management committee.Strategy 8: Promote awareness of the Policy on Inclusive Education.
· Strategy 9 : Enhance knowledge, roles, responsibilities, and participation of all stakeholders.
