Inclusion and education

Inclusion and education

2020 GEM Report

In line with its mandate, the 2020 GEM Report assesses progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education and its ten targets, as well as other related education targets in the SDG agenda. The report also addresses inclusion in education, drawing attention to all those excluded from education, because of background or ability. The report is motivated by the explicit reference to inclusion in the 2015 Incheon Declaration, and the call to ensure an inclusive and equitable quality education in the formulation of SDG 4, the global goal for education. It reminds us that, no matter what argument may be built to the contrary, we have a moral imperative to ensure every child has a right to an appropriate education of high quality.

The report also explores the challenges holding us back from achieving this vision and demonstrates concrete policy examples from countries managing to tackle them with success. These include differing understandings of the word inclusion, lack of teacher support, absence of data on those excluded from education, inappropriate infrastructure, persistence of parallel systems and special schools, lack of political will and community support, untargeted finance, uncoordinated governance, multiple but inconsistent laws, and policies that are not being followed through.

Alongside the report, an online database demonstrates education inequalities, the Worldwide Inequality Database on Education Inequalities (WIDE). The Profiles Enhancing Education Reviews (PEER) platform prepared by the GEM Report describes countries’ laws and policies on inclusion and education.

Two special regional reports produced in collaboration with regional partners deep dive into inclusion and education in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Full report
UNESCO
2020
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2020 GEM Report Latin America and the Caribbean- Inclusion and education: All means all
UNESCO
2020
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2020 GEM LAC inclusion
2021 GEM Report Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Report- Inclusion and education: All means all
UNESCO
2021
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Right from the start: build inclusive societies through inclusive early childhood education
UNESCO GEMR
July 2021
UNESCO
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How committed? unlocking financing for equity in education
2021
Supported with funding from the Global Partnership for Education
policy paper 44
Don't look away: No place for exclusion of LGTBI students
UNESCO GEMR
IGLYO
May 2021
UNESCO
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Inclusive teaching: Preparing all teachers to teach all students
UNESCO
2020
UNESCO
policy paper 43